We will be forever learners.

Social media is like entering another dimension—different social norms on every platform with things changing regularly. "Keeping up" can be exhausting. After working in this dimension regularly for the past seven years between internships & adult jobs, I thought I would share some tips, specifically for Instagram. These are some tips that ring true no matter what algorithm changes get thrown your way.

This is by far the best recipe I have tried all of qtine & that's saying a lot because I've been cooking quite a bit. Cooking is the creative process I love because it's mostly structured with a bit of improv AND there's a reward at the end!

If I've realized one thing over the course of the year, it's that the word "branding" is pretty ambiguous. We can think of brands like Saturday Night Live, La Croix, or Ikea - somehow they have a formula that has helped them create something that connects with people.

It's pretty much a constant hunt for inspiration, being patient with yourself and forcing yourself to sit down and do something. Adobe's successful designers, artists, and writers share their strategies for catching inspiration and building on it so that an initial spark evolves from an idea into a project or, just as often, a series of creative endeavors.

I've racked my brains, and I've never heard anyone say, "I'm going to the DMV" with an excited tone. When I realized that I had to renew my license finally, wanted to make it an enjoyable experience and prove to myself that it could be fun! I was going to break the curse of the DMV and make it a positive trip. I mean, I was FINALLY getting my horizontal i.d. & not going to get questioned if I had a fake. So off to the DMV to get my fancy, new real i.d.

Gone are the days when the curated, overly-filtered, perfect photos rack up the likes. For someone who loves the platform and is on it for more than I would like to admit, hearing, reading and seeing this news shocked me. I had noticed the trend, but living in denial I didn’t want to admit it. I had first heard about it on marketing platform that shared this article, “The Instagram Aesthetic is Over.”

Okay, when I had just graduated from college and was job searching, I watched all of the seasons of Project Runway I could get my hands on. At the time, it was something mindless but creative and with compelling characters that I could get behind. Almost two years later, lessons that Tim Gunn taught me are still popping up around me & I thought I would share them with you:

For me, July is one of the hardest months to get through of the year. Work starts picking up in prep for the fall launches, but I walk past windows wishing I was sitting by the pool or the beach. It's not that I don't like my job, because I do! I just find it hard to get through the monotonous, day-to-day work.

I found this article from the New York Times about "A Deceptively Simple Way to Find More Happiness at Work" and of course, I immediately clicked on it because who doesn't want to be happier at work, am I right?

Traits, behaviors, thinking profiles… people are so complex, but also so similar because we all have a desire to create and make things. It’s so cool to see the differences between people and how together, we can create incredible things.

Adobe created this test to to explore the different faces of creativity. It assesses your basic habits & tendencies in how you think, act and see the world to help us better understand who we are as creatives.