Tag: education

  • Streamline Processes With Project Prescription

    When you start your own creative business, excitement takes hold. After all, you’re your own boss (finally!), you set your own hours and you get to choose who you work with. There are so many perks that you may soon find it hard to believe that you ever worked for anyone else in the first…

  • 5 Reasons To Get Out of the Office and Network

    Shauna here — this week, I’m in Palm Springs for Designer Vaca, an annual retreat for female creatives. I’ve said it many times before and I will say it again: attending this event for the first time four years ago completely changed the course of my career by giving me the confidence to quit all…

  • The Anatomy of A Brand Identity

    The outward expression of a brand including its name and visual appearance is called a brand identity. When small businesses contact a designer or studio for the first time, a lot of the lingo surrounding the graphic elements that form a brand can be confusing. Using The Blogcademy as an example, we’re going to take…

  • Designer VACA Creative Retreat

    I spent a chunk of this week holed up at the Ace Palm Springs for a little sun and fun coupled with a whole lot of learning at Designer VACA. An annual retreat founded by Promise Tangeman and Alyssa Yuhas, Designer VACA strives to bring together female graphic designers and web developers, many of which…