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Advice, insight and first-hand accounts of creative career journeys, aimed at helping you find your way in the industry.
Creative Lives
Senior PR account director Sophie Pettifer on being brave and seizing exciting opportunities
First Hand
How Sam Nowell made the leap from studying architecture to launching a sustainable fashion line
Creative Lives
Creative Lives Podcast
Arabic type expert Nadine Chahine on the politics of type, sacrifice and burnout
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Creative Lives
Erin Aniker on how to make freelance illustration a full-time career
Advice
Richard Fagbolagun on managing anxiety and rebuilding confidence when the going gets tough
Creative Lives
First Hand
Insight into the world of stock imagery: How to become a contributor and its earning potential
Written by
Creative Lives in Progress
Creative Lives
Motion designer Stephanie Fung talks internships, fair pay and landing her role at Selfridges
Creative Lives Podcast
Journalist and cultural programmer Chrystal Genesis on how to launch a successful podcast
First Hand
How Create Jobs’ seven-week programme is empowering a new wave of visual storytellers
Written by
Creative Lives in Progress
Creative Lives
Photographer and filmmaker Derrick Kakembo explains why being multidisciplinary is the way forward
First Hand
How do you design for the weather? Met Office’s Ross Middleham explains
Written by
Ross Middleham
Creative Lives
Juggling jobs, mastering budgets and keeping a “business head”: meet artist Daisy Parris
Advice
Excavate your imagination with this blindfolded exercise set by tutors at CSM
Written by
Lucy Alexander and Timothy Meara
Creative Lives
Director and photographer India Sleem explains why kindness is the key to success
Advice
How to develop a great idea in limited time: Learnings from the Google hackathon
Written by
Creative Lives in Progress
Advice
Essential advice on being commissioned, from an animator, a photographer and an illustrator
Interview by
Indi Davies
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First Hand
How to use downtime to fully recharge
Written by
Ayla Angelos
Creative Lives Podcast
Plasticine satirist Wilfrid Wood on finding your voice and why it’s ok to meander in your 20s
Creative Lives
Sibling duo The Project Twins on how they went from being on Jobseeker’s Allowance to established artists
Creative Lives
From sports to the creative world, Kaj Jefferies shares her journey into film and photography
Creative Lives Podcast
We talk Spice Girls, identity and knowing your worth with Aries Moross
Creative Lives
Creative director Neil Broderick explains the qualities that will take you to the top in PR
Creative Lives
Dan Howden talks us through the freedom and isolation of being a linocut artist