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How do you keep creativity alive in a deadline driven, business oriented environment? As creative designers, one thing we would love more than anything are more assignments without rules. So rather than expect corporate design work to offer that, we assign the projects to ourselves.

Constantly pushing the creative envelope, we ask: How can we promote ourselves in unique ways? What kind of cool print pieces can we put together? What kind of dynamic videos can we create? Website Portal? or Wall Art? These questions allow our minds to get creative and explore ideas, think outside the box.

This gets the creative juices to flow when we work on our clients projects. We’re serious about our work, but we also make time for fun. Check out our most recent creations below!

Looking for creative graphic design for your brand? Web Design? Trade Show?

Skybox Creative is a brand consultancy with an emphasis on web development and technology solutions. Get in touch today! info@skyboxcreative.com or call us at 619.381.3825

Top 7 Inspirational Quotes for Business Success for the Week of March 7 – 13

Skybox Creative’s Exclusive New Inspiration for Business Success
Blog by poet & author Prartho Sereno

Theme of the Week: EMBRACING CHANGE

The cover art on the current (March 7th) New Yorker displays the gestural whimsy the magazine is known for—a close-up line-and-color sketch of two pairs of shoes, one black, one orange. But what you probably won’t catch at first glance is that a new art-form has been ushered into print: The drawing was made on an iPad! The British artist David Hockney began the discipline of drawing daily on his iPhone in late 2008. A year later, he upgraded to the iPad he is using now. He still maintains his morning digital drawing practice, sending the results out to friends each day. As he told Martin Gayford of the London Telegraph in a 2009 interview:

“I draw flowers every day on my iPhone and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning. And my flowers last. Not only can I draw them as if in a little sketchbook, I can also then send them to 15 or 20 people who then get them that morning when they wake up. Picasso would have gone mad with this. So would Van Gogh. I don’t know an artist who wouldn’t, actually.”

What I love about this story is the 73-year-old Hockney’s ability to not only embrace change, but celebrate it. A man of inspiring flexibility, the paintings he’s been working on in “the real world” are life-sized portraits of forests! One that measures 40 by 15 feet, “Bigger Trees Near Water,” is currently on exhibit at the York Art Gallery in London.

David Hockney, in his exuberant experimentation and leap-taking, has thus inspired this week’s bouquet of inspirational quotes for business. It is so easy to fear the inevitable loss of the familiar that change brings, but what if we took our cue from Hockney who has opened himself to the gifts change comes bearing?

Inspirational Quote #1
“Change always comes bearing gifts.”
~ Price Pritchett, “change management” consultant and author

Inspirational Quote #2
“The key to change… is to let go of fear.”
~ Roseanne Cash, songstress (daughter of Johnny Cash)

Inspirational Quote #3
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
~ Mary Engelbreit, artist

Inspirational Quote #4
“Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other.”
~ Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian (author of this, the original Serenity Prayer)

Inspirational Quote #5
“I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.”
~ George Carlin, comedian

Inspirational Quote #6
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
~ Anatole France, poet, novelist, playwright, journalist

Inspirational Quote #7
“Change must begin, not outwardly but inwardly, because the outer is the result of our private, inner life.”
~ J. Krishnamurti, mystic

See you next week!

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The article below was published on Ai InSite.

Ai InSite is an online magazine of The Art Institutes, America’s Leader in Creative Education. Several graduates working in the field offered their advice for up-and-coming artists. Angelina Sereno, President of Skybox Creative, among others, were interviewed for the article…

Art, design, and other creative disciplines are just like any other industry — it takes determination and hard work along with talent to gain success. And for all fields marketing is crucial. One of the best ways to market creative work is with social media platforms. Professionals say that Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn should be part of any creative professional’s marketing strategy.

“Many times social media allows the artists to truly impart their personality, perspectives, and opinions on whatever they are passionate about to the Internet to be seen by people who share the same views,” says Zebulun M. Wood, a Media Arts & Animation instructor at The Art Institute of Indianapolis.

POKE YOUR CUSTOMERS

Angelina Sereno graduated from The Art Institute of California — San Diego in 2003 with a degree in Advertising and is now president at Skybox Creative, a Web Design and Branding Studio. She says her company uses social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn to help build relationships online.

“It has helped keep us in the forefront of people’s minds,” she explains. “Whether they are a potential client or not, if they are thinking about us, they tend to refer their friends and clients to us.”

But social media can be beneficial for artists who may not work at a company but instead do a considerable amount of freelance work.

Read the full article here

Art & Copy, a film by Doug Pray, is playing in San Diego on June 24th at The Birch North Park Theatre (2891 University Avenue, San Diego, CA 92104) at 6pm. To purchase tickets or for more info, click here.

The Art Institute of California – San Diego with support from AIGA San Diego, The San Diego Ad Club, and Ad2 San Diego are hosting a one night only screening of “Art & Copy,” a film by Doug Pray.

Your $20 ticket purchase includes admission to a 21+ pre-show mixer featuring the Montalban Quartet at The Office Bar in North Park, two drink tickets, appetizers and admission to the film screening at Birch North Park Theatre.

Tickets for the FILM SCREENING ONLY are available for $10.

Proceeds will benefit the EDMC Education Foundation, which raises money for The Art Institutes Scholarship Fund to help deserving students in financial need.

Pre Show Mixer:
6:00PM
The Office Bar, North Park
3936 30th Street (between University & Lincoln Ave)
San Diego, CA 92104

Film Screening:
8:30PM
Birch North Park Theatre
2891 University Avenue
San Diego, CA 92104

Notes:
Tickets available for pick up upon arrival at The Office Bar mixer on the day of the show, beginning at 6:00. Pre-show mixer is 21+ only. Advance ticket purchasing encouraged, tickets will be available for sale day of show, CASH ONLY for $25.