In the age of the Internet, someone will use your art without permission. And if you don’t find a way to make peace with it, or deal with it practically, you’re only going to drive yourself nuts.

I tend to find articles about diet and exercise incredibly boring, so I thought I’d offer my tips along with some advice I found in Jayne’s Almanac 1937.

Neuropsychologist and professor of neurosurgery Rex Jung explains how creative people tend to have frontal lobes with lowered integrity. In a good way.

Working when you’re broken is usually the best way to stay sick. But sometimes working when you’re broken is, well, what you gotta do. I made a flow chart.

After an unsuccessful attempt to sneak into an abandoned amusement park in Berlin, designer Krzysztof Iwanski and I settled into a bar to talk poster art.

At this stage of business development, the design of the product should serve the development of the business—not the other way around.

If you don’t create and manage your own online identity, it will be created for you, and not necessarily in the way you want.

The blank page or canvas can be both exciting and terrifying. And even the best advice I’ve been given about getting unstuck doesn’t always work.

I have made a commitment to finish the list FIRST, even if I don’t feel like it. And it has paid off. Not always immediately, but eventually.

You need to find that specific person who is looking for you, so you can make a connection and have them evaluate your work, with you in mind.

For an additional fee, you could get a one-on-one portfolio critique with one of the attending professionals, and these critiques were unjustly occupying my future agent’s time.

As “Breaking Bad” comes to a close this week, I was excited to interview its Set Decorator Michael Flowers for Pyragraph’s very first podcast.

I always conclude a lesson like this with the following contradiction: “All design rules can and will be broken, but wait until you know the rules before you try breaking them.”

We all envision the entrepreneur who invests all her money in an idea, only to see her dreams go up in a fiery fiasco. I don’t want to be that woman.

Fast and efficient is good. But there are ways to further improve your craft, and if implemented logically, you’ll move up in the designer food chain.

I can make soap anywhere I have space for production and supplies. And as long as I have an internet connection, I can sell it.