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Sara Duane-Gladden (6 Articles)

Sara Duane is a lover of words and imagery. She is a writer and photographer based just outside of Minneapolis, with a BA in English from the University of Minnesota.
How to Find Flow in Your Creative Process

How to Find Flow in Your Creative Process

Freelance

As there are no sure-fire ways to make your brain productive or creative, we share tips for encouraging your mind to enter a state of flow.

10 Tips to Help Resolve Creative Conflicts

10 Tips to Help Resolve Creative Conflicts

Freelance

Collaboration is how things are accomplished these days. With collaboration, we can reach incredible creative heights. To get there, though, sometimes we have to slog through conflicts due to incompatible…

Proofing Tips for Print Design Perfection

Proofing Tips for Print Design Perfection

Design / Freelance / Print & Graphic Design

Many of the articles on this site are aimed at the digital space, such as design for the web, mobile and apps. And let’s face it, most design in general…

Collaboration Between Designers and Copywriters

Collaboration Between Designers and Copywriters

Design / Freelance

Once upon a time, the assembly line revolutionized productivity. Instead of one worker or a small team performing all the steps to create a product, each person specialized in one…

Branding Lessons from the Modern Marketing Era

Branding Lessons from the Modern Marketing Era

Marketing

The history of design is deep and long, but the field of graphic design is a much more recent phenomenon. Sure, there was art, design, and illustration in centuries past,…

Design Through the Ages

Design Through the Ages

Design / Freelance