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    What Is Graphic Design? Part 1
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    What Is Graphic Design? Part 1

    by Jessica Helfand American Institute of Graphic Arts Honolulu Chapter Graphic design is the most ubiquitous of all the arts. It responds...
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    Grab Attention with Your Message
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    Grab Attention with Your Message

    To break through the clutter and noise, and get your audience's attention, make your message Personal, Unexpected, Visual, and Visceral.
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    It’s the Journey
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    It’s the Journey

    In his book, HAPPIER, Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, explores the premise that both meaning and pleasure are required for us humans to be happy.
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    How We Remember
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    How We Remember

    Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D., says we have to use information to make it memorable. She offers up two practical ways to do that. [...]
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    Visual Thinking: Coming Full Circle
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    Visual Thinking: Coming Full Circle

    "After the invention of the Phoenician alphabet, words and pictures went their separate ways." -Robert Horn on visual thinking.
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    Why Ask Why?
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    Why Ask Why?

    Why ask why? Because it could be the single best way to inspire anybody to do anything. Excerpts from John Forde. copywritersroundtable.com
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    Four Kinds of Creative
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    Four Kinds of Creative

    In “The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity,” author and neuroscientist Arne Dietrich, Ph.D. outlines four ways to be creative,
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    What is Graphic Design? Part 2
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    What is Graphic Design? Part 2

    “What is Graphic Design?” John Wade, the brilliant designer and teacher behind Before & After magazine, put that question to his readers.
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    The Art of Planting Ideas
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Art of Planting Ideas

    "Not only is inception possible, but it’s happening every day." Guest post by Donnie Bryant
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    Brand Thinking
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    Brand Thinking

    Excerpts from BRAND THINKING AND OTHER NOBLE PURSUITS, by Debbie Millman
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    The Golden Key of Persuasion
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Golden Key of Persuasion

    As Aristotle said about persuasion.“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor." From Gary Bencivenga marketingbullets.com
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    A Creative Personality?
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    A Creative Personality?

    Creative people tend to fit a personality profile including these 7 traits. Based on research by Øyvind L. Martinsen.
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    Introversion & Creativity
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    Introversion & Creativity

    Research findings and stories worth sharing from QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING, by Susan Cain
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    Graphic Designers on Graphic Design
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    Graphic Designers on Graphic Design

    Observations from some leading American graphic designers, as shared in Debbie Millman's book, HOW TO THINK LIKE A GREAT GRAPHIC DESIGNER.
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    How Creativity Works
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    How Creativity Works

    In his book, IMAGINE: HOW CREATIVITY WORKS, author Jonah Lehrer takes us on a ride through the creative process.
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    The Psychology of Storytelling
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Psychology of Storytelling

    PROVEN WAYS TO CREATE BETTER STORIES (AND WHY STORIES SELL). Guest post by Gregory Ciatti.
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    How to Create Advertising that Sells
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 8 min

    How to Create Advertising that Sells

    David Ogilvy has been called “the original Mad Man.” Read and heed his classic advice, originally shared in an agency ad from the 1960’s.
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    18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 8 min

    18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently

    "Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways," begins Carolyn Gregoire of the Huffington Post [...]
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    In Print We Trust
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    In Print We Trust

    "A printed page is touchable, an archive, a reference, a resource that does not arrive via thin air and will not disappear into thin air. “
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    Lessons from Burning Man on How to Unlock Creativity and Think Big
    Linda Pizzitola, Kauai, Hawaii
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    Lessons from Burning Man on How to Unlock Creativity and Think Big

    Guest Post by Catherine Clifford Entrepreneur.com
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