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A Higher Standard?

Thursday, August 19, 2010
By Atom Groom

I know a lot of us use WordPress for blogging and it’s a great solution for that. It’s what WordPress was originally built for. If you’re just using WordPress for a blog, you probably have used tons of different plug-ins created by developers from all over the world. In that case, you probably don’t read more » 

Building a culture

Monday, July 19, 2010
By Joseph Gonzalez

What are the benefits of a creative culture? What does it mean to live, work, play and socialize in a creative atmosphere, town or region? In the past few weeks I’ve asked myself this question in regards to a couple different situations. And I feel at times, I’ve contributed to building a creative culture read more » 

4000 sq. ft. blank canvas

Monday, June 7, 2010
By Kevin Bruinsma

I have been a graphic designer for almost 10 years. I began my career working for an agency in Michigan where I was privileged to work with many interesting and high profile clients.  Due to “life circumstances”, I left everything I knew in the mitten and moved to the Chicagoland area.  While I was read more » 

Taking the Side Roads

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
By Geoffrey Hudson

Copyright Geoffrey Hudson 2010 – All Rights Reserved My biggest goal (along with every other photographer in the world) is to get one of my images on the cover of a national magazine. I can’t think of one photographer that wouldn’t want one of their photos on the cover of Time or Sports Illustrated. read more » 

Challenges

Wednesday, May 12, 2010
By Teresa

After reading Atom’s post about his frustrations with the lack of wings his “brainchild” community has grown, I thought to myself that I’m just as guilty as the next of being a “consumer” of this community instead of a “contributor”. With that said, I wanted to commend Atom for his foresight to see a read more » 

Starving for design…

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Alan M Drake

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.  - Chinese Proverb A Hunger Artist - Link read more » 

Stuck on the Web…

Sunday, January 24, 2010
By Alan M Drake

A website is about as crucial to graphic designers as his/her business card. Actually they play hand in hand as possibly the easiest and most affective way for a client to really get a feel for who you are as a designer. So what should I do if web design and coding just doesn't read more » 

Why Artists are not Designers and why Designers are not Artists

Thursday, January 14, 2010
By Joseph Gonzalez

When I meet with art students and I ask them what they plan to do with their art, they’ll say… “I want to be a graphic designer”, like somehow being able to draw really good means that they’ll be a good designer. I think the graphic artist of the past were true artist – read more » 

NWI Creative.org Launches!

Monday, November 9, 2009
By Atom Groom

Welcome to the first-ever online community dedicated to growing creative talent in Northwest Indiana. If you're from the Region, are highly creative and wish to play an integral part of an ever-growing creative community, you are in the right place. So, what's this website all about? Simple. Northwest Indiana Creative is a website that works to read more »