How Creatives can promote themselves online

Back in the day, if you were a creative type – maybe you were a writer, a painter, a sculptor or perhaps all of the above – the only way to communicate your vision was to struggle through the years and wait for someone else with the purse strings to fund your creative pursuits.

Nowadays, thanks to the web, we can skip the middleman and go straight to displaying our own work in the most public of forums mankind has known to date – the art of freelancing online.

 

But if you are looking to start a blog or website based around your creative vision – where do you even begin? There’s so much more to freelancing than simply displaying your work and hoping that someone with influence will stop by your page – it’s a complex world of marketing and networking.

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Mark Weaver

Love this retro-feel set by artist Mark Weaver

Be sure to check out his (fucking) amazing portfolio at mrkwvr.com or on Behance – Very inspiring!






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Classic Penguin books have a fresh typographic face-lift

I’m sure you have in your travels come across the classic minimalist Penguin classic covers

Well, a number of the classic reads have had a bit of a face-lift thanks to a group of designers and Aids awareness fund (RED) teaming up with the book publisher Penguin books

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Retro Revival – A classic spin on the films of 2009

Illustrator and designer Tavis Coburn has put together this amazing series for the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards.

Up in the Air

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Hurt locker

An Education

Precious

I found this via an awesome post by ‘Accordion Guy’

Kitty Came Home vintage creations

Henry here at Design Tavern has proven now that he has an eye for innovative design and all things inspiring. Knowing him personally, thus, has its perks. Especially when they come in the form of a gorgeous Kitty Came Home vintage fabric clutch.

Kitty Came Home was founded by Katrina Weber in 2004. Based in Adelaide, Weber pieces together these delightfully lovely purses, wallets, journals and jewellery.


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Finger Food

Today’s post comes from Amy Sawyer, a contributing blogger over at Rough Review.com. You can find more of Amy’s articles here!

Most loved up girls will expect roses or chocolates or perhaps a big diamond ring? Me I’d rather treat myself (in my dreams of course) to some tasty finger bling.

Danish jewellery designer Emquies Holstein’s gold chocolate wrapper ring would certainly be my new best friend.

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#FollowFriday 10 talented people with an eye for design

Okay, so technically its Saturday in my little part of the world, but for many (most?) of my readers its still a Friday!

If you’re not yet on the twitter bandwagon you can register for free and see what all the fuss is about.

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Gear Ring up for a good time.

I’m not a huge jewellery kind of guy, but this is something I think I might just be able to pull off..
The Gear Ring is not your normal stationary ring, oh no, this ring designed by designed by Ben Hopson and Glen Liberman features six micro-precision gears that turn in unison when the outer rims are spun.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI2N6fsPjjg

via:  Kinekt Design

I first saw this tweeted by: @nalri