Category: Drabble

Fighting Fatigue: Conquering the Daily Grind

Here’s one for fellow creatives. Something’s been weighing on my mind since yesterday morning, when the daily yarn with the coffee lady burped up this pearler: “How do you just keep creating new stuff every day? How do you not run out of juice?” Of course, I laughed…and let her in on our dirty secret. Read more…

Zoning in: curating your work environment

This one is a bit left-of-field for my usual drabbles, but something that’s quite important to me as someone who sits behind a computer. Whether your daily grind is in an office, amongst cubicles or from your kitchen table at home, one of the most important aspects of consistent productivity is creating an environment that Read more…

Making the leap: how to work with a designer

Recently I had the ultimate pleasure of chatting with Savannah Peterson at Kiwi Landing Pad‘s NZSMJ event in Queenstown, and among all the other wonderful insight she and fellow speakers brought up during the day, was this thought: how does one even work with a Designer? What’s the process, what are the requirements? Of course, Read more…

Why the fine lines and tall tales?

Doesn’t every creative soul enjoy a double entendre? Some of my earliest memories as a child involved depicting thoughts and expression as images, although the net result was usually a waxy mess, and mostly outside the lines. I was easily entertained and often found wandering the convolutions of my own paracosmic world. Not a whole Read more…