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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

The Art of Doing Business


Justin Coro Kaufman

[caption id="attachment_78985" align="aligncenter" width="1032"] "have a TINY glass of coke or get WHIPPED!" says Santa[/caption] Happy holidays everyone!  Figured I'd keep things going with another story this month. This one's about how gloriously the artists' naivety can be taken advantage of in the cut throat world of business. also thought it would be nice to pepper it with some sweet seasonally appropriate Haddon Sundblom paintings. It was early 2005. Our little studio was young, going…

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YESTERDAY’S POST


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Jamie Windsor on Working Through Low Periods


David Palumbo

December 4, 2024 - Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece on acknowledging when things are bad and moving forward through it.  At that time, I was in the middle of a challenging stretch where clients had gone silent and I was finding it very difficult to find meaning and motivation in my work.  Because I was still in the middle of it, I had a limited perspective on the situation.  Having (thankfully) emerged from that place, I can see how the stress and pressure I was feeling to make work was actually making it far harder to think creatively or find any ideas exciting or interesting, which only amplified my distress.  I did stay busy though, more out of panic than anything, right up until I got knocked out with Covid for most of December, somehow…

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