Personal branding is something I am passionate about.  In today’s business world it is incumbent on each of us to take control of our own careers inside the office and out.  It used to be that personal branding was left to those who were either looking for a job, at the top of their profession or using their notoriety to obtain speaking engagements or executive level positions. With the explosion of Social Media technologies, if you love what you do and want to share your knowledge with the rest of the world there are now hundreds ways to do it.  A strong personal brand is one facet of a personal promotion strategy that will help you market yourself and reach your personal objectives, whatever they may be. read more…

Ever want to start a new project but come up short on inspiration?  There is always the overused game and sci-fi themes or perhaps the hotrod and chopper style that we see over and over again on computer projects.  As a designer I think there are many many more places to find ideas than these overused and, dare I say, cliche sources.  With very little stretching you can explore all kinds of things to find forms colors and textures that might work on your next project.

Wether you’re working on a new art piece, customize computer, web site design…whatever the project, there is inspiration to be found all over the web.  Make sure to check out my tip for using Flickr to catalog your muses as you find them…at the end of this post. read more…

This is part two of my Art Train series.  If you read part one you recall that I took a number of photos of a train parked in my home town.  In this post I would like to focus on the work of two Minneapolis based artists.  Known and Shock and Silk these two are each amazing in their own right however they have teamed up to do projects as the United Crushers.  If you look closely you can see their fantastic and daring work all over town. read more…