http://designersobriety.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Learn your client's "new normal", because it's not business as usual anymore. Our clients' businesses, and therefore our careers, have changed forever. Sure, we can attribute some of this change to the explosion of social media, lightning fast communication speeds, and the new economy. But the bigger and longer-lasting change is ... http://designersobriety.com/2010/02/life-with-the-new-normal/ #71 Busy or bad day? Like Grandpa said, your response is your responsibility. Your Grandpa may not have said that to you, but it's true. All too often we get going so fast that we tend to not see too far past ourselves. This often leads to us being a bit ... http://designersobriety.com/2010/01/71-grandpa-was-right/ Cameron Sinclair, an architect and founder of Architecture for Humanity, is a past TED Prize winner. His most recent talk gives a different perspective of the financial and construction meltdown through the "boom and bust" refugees. His presentation questions us with an undeniable truth: at the bottom of the ... http://designersobriety.com/2010/01/forget-carbon-what-is-your-ethical-footprint/ It's always interesting to me how things work in cycles. It wasn't too long ago that everyone said, "You have to have a website; everyone who is anyone has one." And to a certain extent, at least nowadays, that is true. Recently, you see the same thing happening with social ... http://designersobriety.com/2009/12/3-things-to-ask-yourself-before-social-networking/ #70 Today, stop and look at something differently. Everyday we wake up, hit the snooze, workout...well, maybe...and make our way to our job. We go through whatever routine gets us going in the morning. Tea, coffee, check the email, and so on. We may have had this routine for several ... http://designersobriety.com/2009/11/70-change-it-up/ I would be willing to guess most of us think that a creative retreat is a good idea. Whether it's just you or the whole team, it's worth more than anything it would actually "cost" you while out of the office to take the time to recharge, get inspired, and ... http://designersobriety.com/2009/11/5-ways-to-have-a-successful-retreat/ #69 Have you done a personal inventory lately? Have you asked if there is something you want to do, change or learn? What is stopping you? We think the hardest thing to do is the strive for balance: balance of your time, desires, dreams, work, friends, family, and the list goes ... http://designersobriety.com/2009/10/69-personal-inventory/ At a conference like AIGA's Make/Think Conference, it's impossible to boil down the few precious days into one sound byte, but there has been a quote going around that, if we were to be so bold, could come close to summarizing the very purpose and reason the conference exists: "Creativity is ... http://designersobriety.com/2009/10/creativity-is-a-habit/ #68 Utilize your social media outlets for research. Ask your connections via LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter. Also, think about Twitter as a search engine. For some of you this will be old news. Or perhaps you have thought about it, but have yet to utilize your networking resources in this new ... http://designersobriety.com/2009/09/68-use-social-media-for-research/ For some, working away from the office is no big deal. But what about for those of you who haven't tried it yet? The good news is that it can work, but it does take some planning and flexibility. The reasons for going remote are numerous. Perhaps you feel the itch ... http://designersobriety.com/2009/09/working-remotely-making-it-work/