Creative Career Roadside Kit

Designed to equip creatives with quick access to high-impact tools, articles, and platforms to support your work, wellness, and career growth.

Audrey Liu, Adobe 99U Talk

Incentivize Creative Teams with Meaning, Not Perks

“Do the right thing, not just the most measurable thing.”

— Audrey Liu

✨ Inspo

Creative thinking, ideation fuel, brand case studies, and tactical POV-shifters:

1. Creativity Hack: Read the Obits

2. You Have More Than One Priority. Don’t.

3. Take note, This is How You Modernise a 500-Year-Old Brand

4. Expert Tips on Getting Into Creative Flow (And Staying There)

5. Lady Gaga & AI Paranoia Backlash

6. Doubling Down on Skills AI Can’t Replace

7. From Networks to Independence: Creative Leap

“Market research is very good at determining consumer preferences among products that currently exist.”

How Steve Jobs Knew What You Wanted

“Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements; to name and categorize things; and to understand our place in the universe.”

— Nicole Fenton

Words as Material

Tracy Ma, RISD talk

Values + Lessons You Won’t Learn in School:

• As soon as a you learn, move on

• It’s a constant learning and unlearning

• Try to make sense of the world (design is a kind of ‘sifting’)

• Don’t embroider. Use visual styles to create meaning

• Making fun of yourself (and other people too if they’re rich and evil) is a currency you can trade on

Going the Freelance Route

1. What is a Business Roadmap? (And How to Create One)

2. How to Find Your (Profitable) Niche

3. How to Become a (Successful) Solopreneur

4. 7 Types of Solopreneurs (Examples Included)

5. 4 Unconventional Tactics to Skyrocket LinkedIn Growth

“There is strength in independence but there is power in community.”

― Dr. Madeline Ofina

🆓 Free Design Assets and Stock Photos

Best + final price!!

• https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc

• https://unsplash.com/

• https://www.pexels.com/

• https://www.heritagetype.com/pages/free-vintage-illustrations

• https://www.rawpixel.com/

• https://www.si.edu/openaccess

“If you’re not spending at least 5% of your project budget on the spec, you might be doing it wrong.”

— Seth Godin

Creating a useful spec | Seth’s Blog

🧘 Mental Health & Wellness

Mental fitness for creatives on the move means less stress and more of what love:

• Headspace

• Calm

• Endel

1. Stop feeling burnt out and be more creative. Here’s how.

2. 6 ways to stay creative under pressure

3. A creative person’s guide to feeling healthy