Category: Content
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Focusing on Hillary and Equality
Hillary and Equality I agree strongly with a phrase from an article I read in The Nation: “It’s the inequality, stupid.” This statement from the closing of “To Beat a Nasty, Brutish Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Will Have to Do Something Different” clarified for me the underlying discontent, anger, and dismay being voiced by so many…
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Januska On changes its focus
I am going to shift the focus of this site from my professional work to my personal work. Since there is a lot of overlap between the two, I hope you, dear reader, will forgive any redundancies you find here. The blog has been dormant for over a year and a half and much of…
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Top 25 Advertising Agencies Minnesota — infographic
What do the top agencies in Minnesota look like? When I learned that Minneapolis/Saint Paul are considered the sixth most creative cities in the nation, I was interested to look at the ways agencies added to the creative community. This infographic seeks to visualize the scale and opportunities of advertising agencies in the Minneapolis/St.…
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Cult of Done Manifesto infographic
This infographic was designed based off of the Cult of Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis.
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Creative Truth: All Bets are Off
These days to get the most bang for your marketing dollars you need outstanding creative to build and grow your brand. If you think you can get by with lackluster, safe design and stale, expected language you can count on being lost in the channel. The bar is high for the creative articulation of your…
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Find Three Things
Early advice. Simple and effective. Difficult to follow for workaholics and curious types. Do it.
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Creative Truth: Simple by Design
Simplicity is so much more direct, clear and graspable. Perhaps that’s why it is such a successful approach to design. When I think of Shaker furniture and Agnes Martin and I see the beauty of simplicity. I know how difficult it can be to achieve, which is all the more reason to strive for it.…
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Creative Truth: Ideas are a Dime A Dozen
It was a rude awakening when a professor of mine said to me, “Ideas are a dime a dozen.” And they were right. People come up with ideas all day long and many of them are good ideas. However, anyone can have an idea. It’s the person who actually does something with the idea, who…
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Creative Truth: Work
Good work always prevails. There are many things that make a creative person successful but the one truth that is irrevocable is that we are judged by our work. We make things. Our creative output, art, music, dance, poetry, is the result of our lifetime of experiences, our craft and skills, influences of the culture…
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Creative Truth 4: Place
I used to think this quote came from John Cage’s 10 Rules for Students and Teachers. However, I learned from Brain Pickings that they really came from Sister Corita Kent. I had this list of 10 Rules on the bulletin board above my desk for over five years and from it I learned some of…