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New Year’s Design Resolutions-Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Canister-Hang-TagWe all have bad habits. Whether it’s an affinity for fast foods, use of Arial instead of Helvetica, or adoration for alcohol, there’s always room for improvement. Do you take too many trips to the coffee room during the course of a workday? Are you chatting with friends on Facebook instead of finishing those TPS reports?

This is for all the designers in the world. We feel your pain. We have compiled a list of our own New Year’s DESIGN Resolutions to benefit everyone who cares to read them. Let us all improve our capacities as designers together. Make them your own! Add to them!  The top 3 contributors to the ongoing list of New Year’s Design Resolutions will receive a Pi Design Creative Juice Canister! Come on, we know you all want one.

  1. CJC2Get my creative juices flowing more freely by standing up from desk more often and experiencing the real world. Sharene Lewis
  2. I will inspire the flat screen and page with multi-dimensional thinking. Cheryl Pelly
  3. Broaden my color palette past grayscale. Joel Dualan
  4. Get more sleep. Stop writing blog entries in the middle of the night. Sharene Lewis           
  5. I vow to never again use Comic Sans (or any other Microsoft font) under any circumstance, ever. Danny Preslar
  6. Promise not to roundhouse kick employees to the head who make bad typeface choices anymore. Sharene Lewis      
  7. Will give the color Red (Pantone 485/185) a chance in design. Cheryl Pelly
  8. I will TRY to not eat paste or paperclips from the supply cabinet…on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Shannon Parsons
  9. Stop creating fake nude pictures of Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie in Photoshop. Danny Preslar
  10. Push past my monochromatic tendencies to include 2 or more colors in every design I produce. Heber Pelayo
  11. Discover another color that isn’t a shade of green. Sharene Lewis

Add your resolution here for an opportunity to win a lovely Pi Design Creative Juice Canister.

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5 Responses to “New Year’s Design Resolutions-Get Your Creative Juices Flowing”

  1. Matt Widmann Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 9:06 am

    To actually use this years Pantone colors in something instead of avoiding them.

  2. Erik Shultz Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 9:11 am

    KISS: Keep it simple stupid and not to suck :)

  3. Jo Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    To dust off the ol’ 6×8 Intuos and actually use it this year. :(

  4. Ryan Keough Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 10:40 am

    I will be figuring out a way to actually organize all my stock assets and archived projects so I can find them quicker than the average 30 minutes and opening dozens of iterations of “New Folder” – ugh.

  5. Sharene Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 11:45 am

    Thanks for your comments. Email your mailing address to sharene@pidesign.com and I will send you each a Pi Design Creative Juice Canister.

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