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Who Killed My Creative Buzz?

December 18th, 2012 // // Topic: , , ,

The Creative Process What better expression of rebellion than to sit and wait for creativity to strike and subsequently, what better expression of robotic jive than to methodically labor through a process. It’s the age old battle of wanting to be free to create but knowing one’s role as designer is to solve all sorts [...]

5 Reasons Spec Design Work is Not Considered

February 14th, 2012 // // Topic: , ,

For some the term spec work is foreign slang that may lead to guessing its about sweaty people exercising their spec muscles. Actually it is designers exercising their sweaty mouse fingers — its short for “speculative” work — free work in hopes of getting paid for it. I understand the motivation for potential clients to [...]

The result of a German-American love affair

December 7th, 2011 // // Topic: , ,

What do you get when you mix a little American ingenuity with German engineering? No, not a VW, but something just as cute. A new logo? Perhaps. Here at openbox9 we recently wrapped up a new logo for American Institute of Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), and would like to share with you our process of [...]