“I used to wait around until someone else said the thing I was thinking in order to validate it. Don’t wait to speak on the things you believe in.”
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6 Steps to Build Your Best Photography Portfolio
Working Not Working has joined forces with photographers Jessica Pettway & Andi Elloway to look into what goes into a great photography portfolio and how to select images and a layout that show off your personal point of view.
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Talent Talk with Kim Lovell, Creative Talent Manager at VMLY&R
After a year stint as a Creative Recruiter at the Creative Circle, Lovell’s brought her talents to VMLY&R and constantly works to fill its staff with the greatest creative minds that she can. Here’s her process and perspective on finding talent.
Read MoreHow Portfolio School Alternatives Are Teaching Aspiring Advertising Creatives For Free
At the One School, Polanco spent 16 weeks on a crash course learning the ins and outs of being a creative. Here, she explains how her creative background and education at the One School have prepared her to be a creative within the advertising industry.
Read MoreCreativity & Well-Being: Combatting Collective Loneliness & Building a Culture of Connection
Our daily interactions are shown to reinforce our sense of well-being and belonging. And if you don’t feel a sense of belonging or community, you may not feel as engaged at work or as motivated to succeed.
Read MoreWhat It Takes to Run an Agency, In the Eyes of Mojo Supermarket’s Mo Said
In the nearly three years since Mojo Supermarket has existed, the agency has hacked the Oscars, declared baseball dead for Adidas, and even designed a toilet for bad advertising. Each of its projects gets more attention than the last, and Mo wants it to become a home for creatives looking to make the most unique work of their career.
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Visuals by Kayla Homenok
Creativity & Well-Being: Fostering a Culture of Well-Being
In times of change and crisis, we have to reprioritize our needs and start over with the basics. Being well, and taking care of ourselves is key to flourishing and thriving in work and life, as well as staying inspired, creative, and sane. Only when we are well—when we sleep well, eat well, feel safe and supported, and get time to rest—can we experience contentment, let our creativity flourish and do good work.
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How Ray Smiling Adds Destruction Into Creativity
Ray Smiling speaks about creativity as if it were a recap of a Transformers fight. It’s about creating and destroying, it “needs more explosions.” He’s the kind of Creative Director that you want to have if you’re into advertising. His ability to think outside of the box, and encourage other creatives to do so, is well-documented.
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Donye Taylor Cut Her Own Path Into The Creative Industry
From working with R&B artist 6LACK to market his 600 Degrees hot sauce to handling creative direction for a project with Nike, Donye Taylor has carved her own path on her terms. She’s not letting up for anyone. Taylor talks The Digital Footprint, what drives her, and what she plans on doing in the future.
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Photography: Noire Mouliom
These Black Creatives Founded Six Cinquième, One Of Canada’s Most Exciting New Creative Agencies
In just two years, Six Cinquième has become the blueprint for rising, self-established agencies—especially for Black creatives, who make up an absurdly small percentage of the advertising industry. Now, they’re speaking to Working Not Working about it all: being creatives, establishing their highly sought-after agency, and the vision that they have for the future.
Read MoreSpace Was an Out-of-Touch Client in Need of a New Brand Strategy. Meet Supercluster, Its New Creative Agency
Animated illustration by Emily Parsons
Creative Turns: Graham Nelson––From Law School to Entertainment
From a start in law school, to Japanese TV, to a strategist at Huffington Post and now off-screen writer and on-screen creative at studios like Vox and Netflix, Graham Nelson’s path has been anything but predictable. His leading advice? …
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The Brazilian Designers Behind Brooklyn Studio Porto Rocha Make Work that Moves at the Speed of Culture
“Both immigrants ourselves, we founded the studio upon the idea that unique and global perspectives are key to creating work that is both innovative and culturally aware. Through PORTO ROCHA, we see an opportunity to help build brands that are in dialogue with the real world.”
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Illustration by WNW Member Richard A. Chance
The Many Hurdles Facing Creatives of Color in Museum Spaces
Museums become the long term memory of a society. They bear the scars of oppressive movements that stain our history and carry that trauma like a physical body. Each institution has a closet full of skeletons they’d rather forget.
Read MoreDonations, Petitions, and Tools for Education: A Curated Collection of Anti-Racism Resources
A good starting point if you don’t know what to sign, what to read, what to listen to, and what to do. It’s hard to know where to start. But where you start doesn’t matter. What matters is that you do.
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21 Years, 21 Lessons: About Success & Failure as a Creative Immigrant
Us immigrants, we tend to shy away from voicing our stories because we are afraid of how it will effect our status. Here’s to hoping that telling my story will help someone else like me in their journey.
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Overshare Podcast: Romance in the Time of Quarantine - A Masterclass from Photographer, Drone Flirter, & Bubble Boy Jeremy Cohen
In the season 3 finale of Overshare, host Justin Gignac sits down with Brooklyn-based photographer Jeremy Cohen, whose whirlwind saga involves drone flirtation, a human-sized bubble, millions of views, a great distraction for all of us, and a reminder of our shared humanity.
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VCU Brandcenter and Working Not Working Partner for Virtual Recruiter Session Week
We’ve officially launched a weeklong virtual recruiter session on the WNW platform. Over the past month, the graduating class of just over 100 students has been putting together their portfolios, housed within their own section of Working Not Working. Now, recruiters have the chance to discover, chat with, and hire any and all of these up-and-coming creatives.
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Overshare Podcast: Directors Coodie & Chike on Kanye West, Serendipity, and Being Too Nice
Directing Duo Coodie & Chike got their big break directing three Kanye West music videos. With their infectiously positive energy and endless wisdom from all their years in the business, we're thrilled to welcome them to Overshare.
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