PORTFOLIO CREATIVE BLOG

We’re inching closer to festival season, which means very soon, every weekend will be filled with the best of Columbus days and evenings spent with friends celebrating our city’s culture, people and favorite summer holidays. Keep yourself busy until then by checking out this month’s highlighted creative events from our April calendar.  OSU Department of Design Spring Exhibition Saturday, April 8 at OSU Urban Arts Space Celebrate the outstanding work from OSU’s Department of Design senior class at the downtown Urban Arts Space on Saturday, April 8 from 5-7 pm. An

March in Ohio *sigh* is typically characterized by celebrating sandal weather on a Monday and pulling out a parka from the back of your closet between tears by Friday. Luckily, we live in a city where something inspiring and informative is going on every night to keep us busy while we wait for patio season and Midwest sunshine to commit to us full time. We’ve highlighted a few bigger events coming up this month that we are especially excited about, but that doesn’t mean the rest of what’s happening this month

For more than 10 years, we have worked with long-time partner and friend, Robin Enterprises, and a local designer to create and print our quarterly creative events calendar. With mixed emotions, we have decided to move the calendar in a digital direction and our most recent winter calendar will be our final edition in print. Our goal remains the same— to be your number one resource on what’s happening in the Columbus creative community. The events we share on our digital calendar will focus primarily on opportunities within our creative

By Kristen Harris We’ve all heard the advice, “fake it until you make it.” But isn’t that a little false? Or pretentious? Maybe even outright lying? While this advice might sound a lot like “don’t be yourself” or “act like someone you’re not,” Amy Cuddy has fascinating research about how changing your body language can actually change your brain. Not only is faking it a good idea, it can actually help you become who you want to be. We all have different personas. I’m a business owner, an artist, a

By Kristen Harris September is National Update Your Resume Month (yes, it’s a thing). This month I encourage you to embrace the Scout’s motto of “Be prepared,” and update your resume. Even if you’re 100% happy in your current role, own your own business, work independently, or not currently working, it’s a best practice to always have a current, updated resume. For resumes, my motto is always “Be prepared” because you never know when… …the perfect work opportunity may come along. …you might get recommended for a dream job. …change

By Kristen Harris “Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” —Warren Bennis Imagine we’re driving down the highway. I’m going 60, 65, 70 miles an hour (maybe faster…don’t judge me), and so are you. I trust you’ll stay in your lane, and you trust that I’ll stay in mine. We both use our signals. We maintain a safe distance. Neither of us does anything erratic or unpredictable. And it works. At it’s best, highway traffic is an amazing trust-based orchestration of strangers working together. Then

By Catherine Lang-Cline With the unemployment rate so low, companies are not getting the normal number of resumes from the unemployed. This requires companies to dig deeper into a shallow pool, which means that people you currently employ could get lured away. Why? Here’s a little insight to what we hear as recruiters: Money – No surprise that money is the number one reason people leave. Some people really love their job, but can’t keep living on what they are being paid. Some know that with their skillset they can make more.