Brooke Hopper, Lead Designer for Drawing & Painting at Adobe, explains how she balances the corporate and business sides of design with creativity and anticipates the needs of Adobe product users before they even realize they have those needs. She also predicts the impact of COVID-19 on digital art and usership and encourages readers pursuing careers in art and design to put themselves out there.
Read MoreAs part of the Design Nation Conference 2020 Digital Experience, Matteo Bologna, founder of Mucca Design, joins Seoyoung Hong (Assistant Director of Content for Design Nation) for a podcast and shares his unique story into design, from how he got started in illustration and then graphic design to how he successfully built his career as a designer and a founder of Mucca Design. Matteo also shares some advice that he hopes young designers will remember as they enter the industry.
Read MoreIn part II of Grace Hong’s podcast with Miri Rodriguez, Head of the Global Internship Program at Microsoft, Miri explains how to connect with potential mentors on LinkedIn by showing up with grace, reaching out with the intention to gain insight and relate via compassionate empathy, and coming out of a space of learning. She also explains a storyboarding exercise, where she challenges others to describe their brand story using colors or paint, but not words, in only six panels.
Read MoreIn a video interview, Business Today’s Arjun Jagjivan talks with James Bell, COO of Global Operations at Alliance Abroad, about reimagining the future of the company and creating a more inclusive culture.
Read MoreGary Briggs, former CMO of Facebook and current Digital Director for the Bloomberg Presidential Campaign, ended day two of the International Conference in a fireside chat with Neel Ajjarapu, the President of Business Today. Briggs reflected on his career path, which led him from the world of politics to the world of marketing, and in a strange way, back to politics again.
Read MoreTom Wilson, Head of Marketing & Commercial Excellence for Crop Science at Bayer, has always been drawn to marketing as a space for creativity and business acumen. Luckily, growing up in St. Louis, Tom was surrounded by inspiration from local retail giants like Anheuser-Busch and Nestle Purina PetCare.
Read MoreGlobalization, the new era buzzword, is easy to see in our world, but the extent of its elusive effects is not so easy to ascertain. Nevertheless, it is increasingly difficult to operate with a pigeon-holed view of the world, and we must start to combine different skill sets and knowledge in order to ride this wave. Mr. Lloyd Howell speaks to a progressively collaborative and geo-politically and technologically sensitive method of approach, with his own pathway a reflection of what globalization values.
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