Design Week Portland 2019 Podcast Interviews

Apr 4, 2019 | News & Updates, Resources

Over the past month, Getting Work To Work has been promoting Design Week Portland, “a week-long, all-inclusive festival celebrating the projects and processes as told by a creative community across many disciplines.” As you prepare for the events next week on April...

Proud of Your Marketing?

Dec 16, 2018 | Thoughts & Ideas

What feeling do you get when you hand out your business card? Are you excited to hand over your business card or perhaps you feel a sense of dread? No emotion at all? I love experimenting with new ideas, unique shapes, textures, and colors, but I didn’t think...

How to Support Creative Professionals

Dec 10, 2018 | Resources, Thoughts & Ideas

Last week I saw something on Twitter that enraged me: people were shaming people for using Patreon in the absence of a “real business model.” The reason I got a little testy was because a lot of creative professionals rely upon Patreon to fund their...

Do I Lack Vision?

Sep 6, 2018 | The Creative Process, Thoughts & Ideas

For the past few years, I have had a nagging question deep down inside: Do I lack vision? The question grows in scope and scale as I look at my work and analyze the way I think, approach problems, and make decisions. Do I lack a vision for originality? For uniquely...

Language and the Art of Ideas

Sep 5, 2018 | Ideas

When I’m working on creative projects, my ideas are rooted in various forms of language. I usually begin with words, sketched or written feverishly in my notepad. I’m looking for anything to get started: words, themes, connecting thoughts. Eventually I...

The Shape of Your Knowledge

Sep 3, 2018 | Ideas

Being a constant patron of the local library, I am familiar with the Dewey Decimal system of organization, but never took the time to understand the history of what the numbers meant and how the system actually worked. Dewey felt that he understood how knowledge and...