Articles

  • 3 days ago | printmag.com | Kim Tidwell

    The customer is at the heart of what we do as marketing, design, and branding practitioners. Without customers, businesses (our clients) will fail. It’s one thing to know the principles of our field of work, but we also need to be able to execute on those principles. The gap between what we know and how we act on what we know is often challenging to bridge, and it plays out all too frequently in design and branding, especially in the context of consumer research.

  • 4 days ago | printmag.com | Kim Tidwell

    Football fans are famously intrepid; matches invoke local, regional, and national pride. For Europe’s northernmost league, Finland’s Veikkausliiga, this means weathering (literally) a season from spring to fall, with temperatures ranging from summer highs in the 70s to a refreshing 45 degrees at the edges (it’s not uncommon for snow to make an appearance early and late in the season).

  • 4 days ago | l8r.it | Kim Tidwell

    Football fans are famously intrepid; matches invoke local, regional, and national pride. For Europe’s northernmost league, Finland’s Veikkausliiga, this means weathering (literally) a season from spring to fall, with temperatures ranging from summer highs in the 70s to a refreshing 45 degrees at the edges (it’s not uncommon for snow to make an appearance early and late in the season).

  • 4 days ago | printmag.com | Kim Tidwell

    Debbie Millman’s ongoing project “What Matters,” an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers, is now in its third year. Each respondent is invited to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph. Stuti Sukhani is a brand strategist and visual communication designer who builds intricate worlds for brands to live in today and tomorrow.

  • 5 days ago | printmag.com | Kim Tidwell

    It seemed to be a natural response to the noise that was suddenly upon us again, and I was drawn to the silence like metal to magnet. I just wanted to sit in quiet communion with others because my brain, heart, and spirit were completely exhausted; they had collectively stopped taking in any new information because there was no room left for it.