I take issue with the deliberately inflammatory headline that Google is to blame for destroying the workplace since open office style workplaces were around long before Google, but the topic is worth debating. I have a variety of issues regarding the open office trend. Let’s start with the fact that…

It’s been about two months since I returned to freelance after two years of working with Chartbeat, and these last two months have been, well, hard. I’ve done full-time freelance before, but it wasn’t nearly this much of a struggle. Back then I was 25, and I didn’t care very much about building a…

One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs. Zamula, my childhood art teacher, first warned me about black when I was in middle school.