All things in-house
Posted in Ed Roberts, Featured, In-house Observations, Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2013
Lunch with Mark McGuinness, a Fearlessly Resilient Mind By Ed Roberts Virginia, my beloved grandmother, drove me to the School of Design on the campus of North Carolina State University in the winter of 1987. I remember wearing the same black suit I wore to my very first interview—at McDonald’s. It was hard looking into ...MORE
Posted in Ed Roberts, Featured, In-house Observations on Dec 19th, 2012
Second Helpings: Lunch with Marshall Mckinney, Garden & Gun By Ed Roberts Thanks for coming back for second helpings with Garden & Gun art director Marshall Mckinney, the creative soul at the center of the new south. Pull up a chair, dig right in and enjoy! Your typographic and photographic choices at G&G are incredibly clean and ...MORE
Posted in Ed Roberts, Featured, In-house Observations on Dec 18th, 2012
Lunch with Creative Soul of the South, Art Director Marshall Mckinney By Ed Roberts I’ve lived in the south my entire life. There were great advantages to growing up southern—like clear, sunny skies on Christmas day. I know, we’re all supposed to be dreaming of a white Christmas. But no super cool southern preteen in ...MORE
Posted in Featured, Glenn John Arnowitz, In-house Inspiration, In-house Issues on Oct 8th, 2012
I’m always searching for ways to scratch that itch, stretch my creativity—music, acting, performance, drawing—and over the years I’ve found that by developing my writing skills I’ve become a better designer. Think about it. As designers we distill a lot of information, organize it to provide clarity. Well, good writing does the same. And as ...MORE
Posted in Andy Epstein on Sep 23rd, 2011
I bring a pad and pen to every meeting I attend - no matter how informal. There is just too much information that is critical to the projects I'm responsible for for me to retain it all. I also send email recaps of conversations I have to ensure that I and my client or co-worker ...MORE
Posted in Fuel INjected IN-house, Sam Harrison on Sep 19th, 2011
Five Ways to Make Readers Like What You Write by Sam Harrison Earlier this month, Andy Epstein posted an entry about the need for writing skills. Words, not pictures, are the currency of communications in the business world, he wisely wrote, so the better in-house creatives write, the higher their likelihood for success. Tagging ...MORE
Posted in Andy Epstein on Sep 16th, 2011
If we all put as much care into our written communications as our design projects we'd be much more effective communicators and be taken more seriously by our business colleagues.
