The more things change, the more they stay the same. Creatives in modern Asia have typically felt constrained by cultural limitations on self-expression. In Japan, for example, Creatives say that, for many, the best way to go through life is quietly, without any fuss and without standing out too much. That tends to limit creativity, […]

It is tough to plan if you are in a trend-based industry. You need to respond to trends as they emerge. Depending upon what you are providing, your response time could be fast or slow, and the duration of a popular trend also varies, so you may get a lot of use out of what […]

In the old days (and by that we mean “pre-2000”), the opportunity to create content was a bit limited. Sure, the average person could create, but there were fewer tools available, fewer outlets to distribute your work, and in general, fewer opportunities to see what is possible. Content creation was either done by professionals or […]

No matter how hard you work, no matter how hard you prepare, the universe likes to play tricks on people. If you expect to be bold and innovative, sometimes you will face failures, and you need to be able to accept that and move on. How you deal with disappointment, whether as an employee or […]

Within creative firms it is easy to always keep looking for the next new thing. After all, isn’t that what sells? Don’t your clients want something nobody else has? You hire creative people because they can bring you something unique, right? Well…sort of. You should be careful about always aiming for something new, because you […]