How to Foster Creativity Within Your Team
As a team working on a myriad of design disciplines day in and day out, there are certain challenges we face every day. How can we design high-quality strategies and …
Day in the Life of an openbox9 Intern
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 …
Fostering Creativity in the Workplace
4 ways to find creativity
openbox9 takes on the 100 Day Project
100 days of one activity challenge
nine 9’s – a rigorous team exercise
The openbox9 team cuts, chews, and makes some 9’s