Category: Creative Development
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People Aren’t Products: a love letter to my millennial generation
If you’re a professional, your service is a product. Go ahead and sell that. You need to, in order to stay alive. But if you have ever looked at yourself in the mirror and asked, without irony, “What’s my personal brand?†then stop—you’re at the edge of a cliff. The cliff is too high for…
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For the record
This painting—Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions by Kazimir Malevich—is the inspiration for my logo, as you see above. “Why?” you may ask. Because I was in a Russian art museum, saw this across the hall, and laughed. I came up closer to it, and saw that it’s title was…
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Look at this blog, look how it shines for you
There have been some tweaks to the look & feel of Smrvl.com this morning, based on what I’ve been learning lately about weight & white-space and the incredibly insightful input of one Casey Somerville. Let me know if anything is broken!
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My brain often sounds like pages from Frog and Toad
Please tell me you grew up with Frog and Toad. I mean, it’s okay if you didn’t… but for both of our sakes, I hope you did. I often find myself narrating my life in a voice not unlike that of Frog. Or Toad. Or a conversation between the two. Toad: “I cannot do graphic…