“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.
Read MoreIllustration by WNW Member Vrinda Zaveri
5 Tips to Find Work, Collaborators, and Community on Working Not Working
Want to know how you can find work? Want to know how to get noticed? The WNW team has your back. Take a look at some quick steps below.
Read MoreTOV Consultant Vikki Ross Helps Brands To Become Human & Humans To Become Copywriters. (Sorry Robots.)
I encourage brands to be confident with what they say and how they say it. I work with some of the biggest brands in the world and it’s so frustrating when they look to their competitors for inspiration when they could and should be leading the way for their category.
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13 Steps to Create a Stand-Out Profile on Working Not Working
We’ve built Working Not Working profiles to be as multifaceted as you are. What that means is they’re aesthetic, adaptable, and can serve a number of roles. Here are our team’s collective thoughts, as well as the basic steps that you should follow to ensure a great profile.
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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.
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As The Martin Agency’s CCO, Danny Robinson Sets the Creative Tone & Asks the Right Questions
Over the past 17 years, Robinson has worked as a SVP/Group Creative Director, Chief Client Officer, and Chief Creative Officer as of last August. He’s seen a lot during his time with The Martin Agency. Here’s an exhaustive look at the grand scope of working at the agency, evolving creatively, and intrinsic learning as it relates to his work.
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Creative Director Edward Yeung Prioritizes Representation in Their Work, a “Beautiful Crusade for Good”
The award-winning non-binary interdisciplinary creative is an Associate Creative Director at Spotify, where they’ve worked on different rollouts for artists such as Billie Eilish, BLACKPINK, and Maluma. Along with their role as a Co-Founder of the brand Crushed Tonic, Yeung’s hands are full as they continue to realize the full extent of their creative abilities.
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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.
Read MoreArtwork by WNW Member Chris Burnett
50 People & Companies Inspiring the Working Not Working Community Right Now
We asked WNW members to tell us about the creative people who most inspired them, the companies whose projects most impressed them, and their under-the-radar discoveries who deserve to be household names.
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Felix Richter’s Decade at Droga5 Proves a Mastery Of Creative
Felix Richter is the Co-Chief Creative Officer for one of the most well-known agencies in the world. His executive-level creative decisions have left his gargantuan fingerprints on some of the industry’s most well-known campaigns. He’s an inspiration to creatives everywhere — not just for his work in the industry, but also for his approach to being creative altogether.
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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.
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Photo by Mckenzie Grant-Gordon (Painting titled “Recognition”)
Jewel Ham’s Creativity With Spotify Changed The Internet This Holiday Season. Now, She Wants Her Art To Change The World
Jewel Ham now has an appreciation for creativity on a smaller scale—one that’s decidedly not corporate. Here’s Jewel Ham on interning at Spotify, her definition of creativity, advice for future creatives, and building community in Charlotte.
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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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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.
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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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Illustration by WNW Member James Clapham
Drawing Under Quarantine: Fostered Skills & Advice for Newcomers
These tips for professionals and amateurs alike can provide some attainable goals or challenges to those in search of motivation, especially now that freelance creatives are under the whims of unstable budgets.
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Overshare Podcast: Lauren Hom Will Teach You Everything She Knows
In this episode, you will learn the importance of destigmatizing money in the creative industry, and how necessary it is to be around people who help you dream bigger and encourage you to think about yourself in a different way.
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Asking Not Asking #33: All or Nothing
Over the past year, art has been calling out to me again in a way I can’t ignore. Her pleas have been getting stronger, more urgent—and more disappointed in my lack of resolve to commit more time to her—time I simply don’t have right now.
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