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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Mixing Work With Play – Creative Business Cards

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Although my focus as a contributor to Design Tavern is on Interior Architecture, I could not help but share these uber-innovative business card designs. Recently featured on Smashing Magazine.com, these creatives have found an innovative way to mix work and play.

This first design is by Bryce Bell who has devised a way to take the typical 2 x 3 business card layout and transform it into a business card catapult – also known as the “Cardapult”.  You can watch and learn how to make your very own version of the Cardapult here.

This second design is from the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts at cscarts.org.  Here the business cards directly translate into a traditional set of playing cards.

This third design is from Webstock at webstock.org.nz. Webstock hosts web-related events and conferences to promote the improvement of websites and social media through inspiration and education.  These creative business cards turn the bore of trading contact information with other professionals into an exciting game.  Each employee is worth a certain amount of points, the more you engage with others, the higher your score will be.

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“What are you doing right now?” The Status Calendar

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Twitter, Facebook, everyone’s asking the same thing now-a-days..

For some [myself included] it’s an addiction, when a social media asks “what are you doing right now?” One is compelled to answer —

Designers Burak Kaynak & Cem Has have taken the age old question and created the Status Calendar —

“The web’s big question ” What are you doing right now? ” is incredibly useful for tracking your daily activity.

This is a calendar where you can write your daily “status“.

It simply asks the question, “What are you doing Today?”

And you are invited to answer it!”

A fresh and clever Idea, maybe I’d be tempted to finally use a diary If It followed the same format of web social media.

Can’t wait to see it on the market one day.

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