Articles

Advice, insight and first-hand accounts of creative career journeys, aimed at helping you find your way in the industry.

Creative Lives
Salam Zaied on balancing a full-time UX design job with a photography practice full of flowers
Creative Lives
Grin designer Flossie Aylin on community, womanhood and switching jobs mid-pandemic
Advice

“Do your thing, don’t try to change yourself”

Five creative lessons inspired by Jamal Edwards’ pioneering career
Creative Lives
Josie Staveley Taylor on working at Penguin and designing a book cover for Bernardine Evaristo
Pep Talk
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Watch John Muleba’s Pep Talk on answering briefs and coming up with creative ideas
Resources

Eight organisations championing LGBT+ creatives

Including platforms across journalism, digital storytelling and socially-engaged arts
Creative Lives
From intern to motion designer: How curiosity got Tom Merry through the doors at Art&Graft
Creative Lives
Design, drag and “clowny” aesthetics: A window into illustrator Gem D’Souza’s world
Creative Lives
Creative Cassandra Joseph on what it takes to work at The Face magazine
Creative Lives
Drool founder Alex Liepman on launching a start-up to spotlight underrepresented artists
Creative Lives
Visual arts duo Missohio on style, synergy and occasionally switching roles
In the Studio With
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Behind the scenes at DixonBaxi, the agency infusing bravery into branding
Portfolio Reviews

Portfolio Reviews: February 2022

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Creative Lives
Whether he’s working with the Wright family or Nike, Versus’ Mayowa Quadri says it’s all about community
First Hand

Battling creative paranoia and the “I’m-not-good-enough” trope

KesselsKramer art director Adam Morton-Delaney shares his experience
Guide
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A guide to finding clients as a freelancer
Creative Lives
Photographer Alfie White on first clients, social media and navigating industry as an autistic creative
Creative Lives
Brand banter and live-tweeting Love Island: Meet social writer, Hannah Tudor
Pep Talk
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Watch Viv Galinari's Pep Talk on making a career change and working in tech
Portfolio Reviews

Product design Portfolio Review with Zendesk: February 2022

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Creative Lives
Animator and illustrator Rosa Sawyers on finding ideas in nature and learning AfterEffects
Advice
Essential advice from the AOI’s Rachel Hill
Advice

How to start an impactful business with a friend

ERIC co-founders Samantha Hornsby and Mae Yip share their top tips
Creative Lives
From truck driver to technical VFX director: Meet DNEG’s Alexandru Budulan