Anthony from the Positive Space Blog is hosting a cool serie of articles called Creative Advent where designers, illustrators, writers, etc. are giving out the best professional advice they’ve ever received.

I have been really glad to take part in this great initiative! Check out the article I wrote about being yourself in your business approach: Make a difference by being yourself.

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5 Responses to "Make a difference by being yourself"

1. David

   March 13, 2009 at 12:36 am

   Hi,

   Good article. I have just been browsing around your other graphic site. Those are some pretty impressive graphics.

   I have always wondered do you just have the ability to do those designs or did you learn it; or is it a bit of both.

   I have some graphical ability, but I’m not very creative. If you give me something to copy I can do a good job though :D

   David´s last blog post:Free Web Design Icon Set
2. David

   March 13, 2009 at 12:37 am

   Also, consider yourself as having another feed subscriber :)
3. Corinne

   March 13, 2009 at 9:22 am

   Hi David, thank you very much for the subscription, glad you enjoyed what you saw ;)

   About the designs, for me it’s all about the learning curve. I started out with no graphical/technical knowledge whatsoever. I then developped kind of a style, and in the middle, went to an art school. Personal & taught experience + lot of browsing & keeping yourself up-to-date & inspired, and training, training, training. No secrets I guess.

   By the way, your icons look really good, I guess you’re wrong when you say you aren’t creative ;)

   Cheers!
4. David

   March 13, 2009 at 3:31 pm

   Thanks for your reply. I was wondering were you OK at design before you started? If you put something in front of me to copy I can do a good job, but when it comes to working without any aids I can’t do anything. Don’t know if I’d ever be able to do stuff like this:

   http://www.exiledesigns.com/studios/

   I find the icons are easy because I am copying things. I don’t like my web design icon set so much, I prefer these ones:

   http://semlabs.co.uk/journal/sem-labs-web-blog-icon-pack

   I am going to add more to them :)
5. Corinne

   March 13, 2009 at 3:45 pm

   I was pretty BAD :p
   I wish I had something to show you. I guess I should go through my very old stuff (back in 1998) to dig some horrors!
   I’m looking forward to see you new icons!