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Creatives share their own experiences of working within the creative industry.
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Insight into the world of stock imagery: How to become a contributor and its earning potential
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Creative Lives in Progress
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How Create Jobs’ seven-week programme is empowering a new wave of visual storytellers
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Creative Lives in Progress
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How do you design for the weather? Met Office’s Ross Middleham explains
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Ross Middleham
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How to use downtime to fully recharge
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Ayla Angelos
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Matt Dowling gives us the lowdown on getting paid as a freelancer
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Creative Lives in Progress
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Photographer Katharina Poblotzki on overcoming rejection and fear as a freelancer
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Katharina Poblotzki
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Celebrating single Black mothers: Filmmaker Timi Akindele-Ajani on the process behind a two-year side project
Creative Lives
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It’s Freezing in LA! on using magazines as a vehicle for change
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Martha Dillon
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Artist Steven Chorney on hand-painting posters for some of Hollywood’s most famous film studios
Interview by
Marianne Hanoun
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How a five-week course launched photographer Marcella Chan’s career
Creative Lives
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How burnout changes your approach: The Other Box’s Leyya Sattar
Interview by
Indi Davies
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How Disney supervising director Ben Juwono overcame his creative guilt
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Ben Juwono
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Hot off the press! Why these students chose newsprint for their favourite projects
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Anoushka Khandwala
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Success, money, age and Instagram: Five creatives on how to stop pressuring yourself
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Anoushka Khandwala
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Freelance designer Callum Stephenson on letting criticism make you, not break you
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Callum Stephenson
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How do you take your degree show on tour? UCA grads tell us how it’s done
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Rory Stiff
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When do competitions become free labour? Five creatives on their enticing and exploitative nature
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Creative Lives in Progress
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What I’ve learnt about money: Comuzi co-founder Alex Fefegha
Interview by
Indi Davies
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Age is not a timeline for success: Tori West on making money and battling self-pressure
Interview by
Indi Davies
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D’oh! How to laugh at and learn from creative mistakes
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Fiona Martin
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Allow yourself some downtime! Conor Nolan on battling creative frustration
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Conor Nolan
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What illustrator Michael Driver learnt from a rollercoaster ride with money
Interview by
Indi Davies
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What it means to be a photographer today: Gem Fletcher on the ‘messy truth’ of the industry
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Gem Fletcher
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Following design activism from Holland to the Maldives: Charlotte Allen’s first year out of uni
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Charlotte Allen