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Evi O
Evi O. Creative Director / Evi O Evi O. is a practising designer and artist with over ten years industry experience. Working from her Marrickville...
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AGDA Design Awards Juror
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Craig Black
Craig Black. Founder / Craig Black Design Craig Black is a Scottish born graphic designer, lettering artist and typographer. Having spent the...
AGDA Design Awards Juror
Alex Toohey
Alex TooheyCreative Director / Houston Group For 20 years Alex Toohey has delivered on the demands of business strategy with powerfully crafted...
Connecting with the international legal design community
We've been on a journey to make online dispute resolution human for a few years now, as part of Portable's decade-long mission to improve access to...
Embrace change
Embrace change – don't just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Work shouldn’t be a trudge. Sure, it’s probably unrealistic to skip...
What I learnt from my passion project
What I learnt from my side hustle. Nearly 18 months ago I 'overheard' a conversation on LinkedIn by two colleagues. Well kind of colleagues....
Is Plagiarism Plagiarism if it’s not Plagiarism?
Q: Is Plagiarism Plagiarism if it’s not Plagiarism?A: Huh? Allison Goodman and Petrula Vrontikis from Art Center in Los Angeles, California, chat...
How 'design mature' are your clients?
How 'design mature' are your clients?. Business maturity is an accepted area of examining a businesses capabilities. The idea of business maturity...
Inside The Episode – Officially Creative: Design Thinking, Education & The Government
Echos’ Desired, The Podcast was designed to empower people to feel bold, stay fresh and become a better designer and innovation leader. Desired,...
Explaining design
Explaining design. I’ve always thought that being a designer is better than working in PR. At least we produce something tangible. Most often,...
Desired, The Podcast Is Here
Are you willing to become more innovative? If so, Echos’ new podcast, “Desired, The Podcast” may become your new favourite thing. In this...
New business dev: it’s staring us in the face
New business dev: it’s staring us in the face. The old adage ‘80% of your business can come from 25% of your clients” has been proven true...
Design Thinking Is A Future Ability
Let’s start with a cliche: society is changing. Although technology – and what it has done to the way customers consume their products and...
How to get your confidence back when you've been through a rough patch
Life, much like freelancing, has its ups and downs. There are moments when we're riding high and feeling invincible. And then those not so great...
Introducing design debt to a client
Explaining design debt. More people, in more companies, in more industries are using design. That’s a good thing.Isn’t it? In reality it can...
Steering the Out-of-Control Bus that is Social Media
If you want to do content marketing right, stop selling your sh!t. Love it or hate it, social media is a thing and an important tool/thing to help...
It's time for some human-centred rules for artificial intelligence
Portable’s approach to AI. Being human-centred means we believe in some fundamental, mandatory aspects of the process of making things. And we...
Designers need validation
Designers need validation. It’s sad, but I do think designers need validation. Or perhaps, more accurately, it's clients that seek third party...
How to think like a client
How to think like a client. If you’ve ever wondered what clients want from Australian design studios, we’ve unlocked the secrets. At the...
Creatik welcomes new Design Director and builds leadership team for business growth.
Design studio Creatik, has appointed Dan Clark as Design Director. Clark will lead the design team and be responsible for the creative output of...