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Career Tools Events & Recaps

Recap: Career Tools | VISIBLE x [HAS HEART]: Bridging the Gap Between Design & Social Causes

by Elise Englert \ May 25, 2018

At the AIGA Career Tools event on May 12, [HAS HEART] co-founders, Tyler Way and Kendra Clapp Olguin shared how their non-profit started with a single inspiring project and become a nationwide effort. VISIBLE board chair Cara Ungar moderated the conversation.

Career Tools Events & Recaps

Recap: Career Tools | The Alchemy of Wasted Time: A Formula for Productive Team Daydreaming with Corey Pressman

by Sarah Hutchins \ February 28, 2018

Corey Pressman, VP of Adaptive Strategies at Fiction, discussed the value of businesses assigning work hours to thinking and daydreaming.

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Recap: Career Tools | (in)Housekeeping: A Conversation About People, Process and Politics

by Melissa Gillett \ December 5, 2017

We brought together a dynamic panel of in-house design leaders to discuss how to survive and thrive while working in-house.

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Recap: Career Tools | Passion Profits – Turning Passion Projects Into Profit with Duane King

by Peter Russo \ October 18, 2017

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Recap: Career Tools – Branding in the Canna-business with OMFGCO

by Duncan Lawrence \ May 26, 2017

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Recap: “What happens when your career plans go south?” with Aaron Draplin

by Alicia Nagel \ February 3, 2017

Aaron Draplin, of Draplin Designs & Field Notes, led our Career Tools at 52ltd. and shared his tips for making a design career you want.

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Career Tools Recap | Fake It Till You Make It

by Marilee Sweeney \ November 26, 2016

On Friday, Nov 18, 2016 at 52 Limited, illustration star Lisa Congdon and moderator Kate Bingaman-Burt delivered the game-changing session we hoped for at Career Tools: Fake It Till You Make It.

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Career Tools: Contracts for Creative Professionals

by Alicia Nagel \ July 2, 2016

At our latest Career Tools, Create Legal’s Josh Barrett took us Beyond Boilerplate & explained the ins and outs of contracts for creative professionals.

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Career Tools Recap: Be a Bad Ass Presenter

by Alicia Nagel \ March 5, 2016

AIGA Portland’s Career Tools are a series of events aimed to help designers refine and improve their professional practice. It’s 8am Friday morning, and I’m seated with about 80 other attendees in the cozy basement space of 52 Limited to hear David Yewman of Elevator Speech, Inc. give the Career Tools talk, How to Be a Bad Ass Presenter.