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A big part of what’s important to Design Advocate is being an advocate for good design and an advocate for good business.

Quite often the things that stand in the way of that are artificial boundaries in our own thinking and a skills/knowledge/experience gap that requires outside input.

I’ve benefited so much from others over the years and this blog is a way of paying some of that forward. I’m also a naturally encouraging person and we all need a bit of that, right?

“A line has two sides” – Oblique Strategies with Negative Space

Oblique strategies with negative space is a sideways mental shove to give a course correction to your creative thinking, with some great examples and inspiration.

Critical Design Skills for 2020 and beyond

An in depth look at what designers are saying are the most critical skills in design as they look forward. There's some things that are as expected but also some positive personal inspiration for embracing a new approach to upskilling.

Design Advocate How To Guide - Making a christmas jumper design for T-Shirt printing

How To – Christmas Jumper T-Shirt using Illustrator and Photoshop

Enjoy a detailed walkthrough of the process for creating a jumper stitch pattern for any image that you can save as .png with transparency and upload to a T-shirt printing site.

Work at a different speed. Part of the 'Midweek Oblique' series of posts based on quotes from Eno and Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards. Post content written by Stuart from Design Advocate, a branding and design specialist.

Work at a different speed – Oblique Strategies for Design and Designers

Oblique strategies for design is a sideways mental shove to get your creative thinking back on track. It's just what you need to keep design fresh.

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