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Don't Sell the Work. Steward It.
Every designer has heard it. You spend three weeks on a brand system — the kerning, the grid, the restraint it took to leave things off — and the first sentence out of the room is, "Can we make the logo bigger?" It's tempting to hear that as
How Art Found Me
I never went looking for design. That’s the part I have trouble explaining to people who assume every creative career begins with a kid who always knew. I didn’t always know. I was going to be a sports broadcaster — then, my path led to pastoral ministry. A creative
Stop Striving
A couple of years ago, I got a word I couldn't shake. Two of them, actually: stop striving. I'd left ministry to design for a living, and I loved it. I still do. But somewhere in the making, the work had quietly become something else. The
The Cost of Doing Creative Well
No one warns you that caring has a price. They tell you the opposite, in fact — that if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life, that passion is its own reward, that the lucky few who get paid to make things have