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A Nonprofit Budget Debate: The Box Bash Season 2
From the brains that argue Die Hard is a Christmas Movie – welcome back to season 2 of The Box Bash, the series where ob9 brains bash it out offering …
A Summer of Paint and Interning
This summer has been a blast interning with openbox9. I was given many challenge – from painting to working on branding projects, all while learning Adobe tools. My favorite project …
A Design Debate: The Box Bash Season 1
From the minds that thought of ‘cheese on that’ (a cheese dispensing backpack for sidewalk strolls) comes a brand new debate series where ob9 brains bash it out to bring …
How do Creatives Find Inspiration?
As a team working on a myriad of design disciplines, we face daily challenges such as: How can we continually design high-quality solutions our clients need? How can we reduce …
Getting the most out of my Design Internship
I spent the summer before college practicing the rhythms of: organize, support, learn, create, and reflect.
5 Virtual Activities to do with Coworkers
Working as part of a team, it’s important to keep in good spirits, practice healthy work cadences, and maintain open collaborative channels with our coworkers. All these things are part …
Remote Learnings
This summer I worked remotely – not at a coffee shop in town, or even across a state line, but 5,000 miles and 6 time zones away from my co-workers …
Accepting the Eggs
Ideas for a journal cover that never came to be
4 Album Design Trends of 2016
Always curious to which albums define a year in music, I find NPR’s list of top 100 albums go beyond popular to influential and cross cutting cultural lines. In looking …
Overcoming the Inevitable Creative Block
There are times when I, as a designer, encounter a creative block. In fact, this happens almost on a daily basis. I often don’t feel very creative. But, creativity is …
9 Ways to Find Inspiration
Break from the computer and find inspiration
The 100 Day Project – a midpoint update
It’s been more than 50 days since some of us at openbox9 started the 100 Day project. As with any large undertaking, there have been some unexpected challenges, some fun …