Category: Creativity
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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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Embarking
Months of guidebooks and google maps are finally going to pay off as we embark on our excellent adventure. I’ve wanted to see the medieval and gothic cathedrals of France, the chateaux of the Loire, the Flemish masters of Belgium and Mont San Michel forever. We’ll be wandering around but not in, Paris. As we…
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Create Everyday: Day 2
Day Two: look through something nostalgic Sketchbooks are my favorite thing to look through for nostalgia. At my best, I documented what was going on around me, what I was interested in, drew well and noted lots of interesting details about my life at the time. At my worst I fill pages with doodles that…
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Create Everyday/12 Days: Day 1
My friend Kari has created an amazing creative life and her blog about her mission to Create Everyday is an inspiration for me. Yesterday she sent out an invitation to be part of a creative challenge called Create Everyday: the Twelve Days of Christmas. At the bottom of her invitation it said, “be courageous.” Loved that. Loved the…
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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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GLBT sentiment in 2000, an infographic
This infographic represents my look at the sentiments of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans in 2000. There isn’t a lot of hard data about the lives of the GLBT community. While there is a lot of anecdotal information, wonderful storytelling of our history and even good documentaries about our lives, quantified open data is hard…
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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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Google’s Art Copy Code—that’s what I’m talking about.
Google has been very involved with the intersection of the three disciplines of creative, content and programming, better named Art, Copy & Code. This video encapsulates a vision for this intersection. I share a passion for projects and ideas that work in this intersection. I believe that marketers don’t yet see the opportunities for…