Presenting the love-growth-cash triangle, helping to get your passions, desire to learn, and ability to pay the mortgage, in synch. There's a certain joy that comes from doing what you love, getting compensated for it and constantly learning new things in the process. Your goal should be to maximize each experience and try to cover as many new areas of the bigger triangle as possible.If you have a shit ... Read full entry

Designers talk about their careers after ten years on the job. As always it's the attention to the seemingly smallest, and least relevant, of details that is the most important, knowing how those you work with like their tea. They say it takes 10,000 hours or 10 years to become an expert at something, which isn't long if you're working an 80-hour week. So what advice would people give ... Read full entry

Pick One. debbie millman writes about her search for graduate work that is bound to ring a few bells with those who have been through the process before. I knew that what happened next could change my life forever. As I sat on the cramped, balmy Express Bus into Manhattan, I fantasized befriending the Human Resources Director, being invited up to meet the design director of Vogue or Vanity Fair ... Read full entry

Making the right career choice: a topic that is always on my mind! Great article at Flying Solo, written by Megan Tough with strategies and ideas for helping identify career direction. Miss Lang Lee'av, she of Akina fame, and who "writes little rhymes, makes art, & designs" is one busy creative and fashion designer, having just launched a portfolio site! Remember The Milk, my favourite online ... Read full entry