When it comes to undertaking any daunting task — building a business from scratch, creating a piece of creative work, or aiming for some other ambitious goal - it’s too easy to get bogged down in the details. As a long-suffering perfectionist with a submerged urge to prove myself to the world, I tend to say to myself: OK, let’s take this from the top, and make sure everything I make is perfect and beautiful before I continue.
Read MoreI’m taking an amazingly thought-provoking class at SVA called “The Feeling of Design,” taught by Sue Walsh. One of our assignments is “Design for a Cure,” in which we identify a social campaign and think critically about the tension between the issue itself (cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc) and what its campaign branding communicates about the issue.
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