What, to the New American Negro, Is YOUR Juneteenth National Independence Day?
Emphasis on the word your. If you’re not familiar with Frederick Douglass’s speech entitled What, to a Slave, Is Your Fourth of July?, you should be. You can read the […]
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Why We Chose Not to Play the Mississippi Lottery
Let me start with a few disclaimers. As a leadership team, we chose not to accept an invitation from another agency to submit a joint bid to provide creative and […]
Doodle the Dust Off
Working in a creative field can be incredibly rewarding and fun. You get to do the work you love, sometimes effortlessly, by simply working those God-given left brain muscles. However, […]
A Serious Look at Comic Sans
Comic Sans is a font that people love to hate. I’ll admit it—I myself am one of those haters. But I didn’t know the backstory of this designer-despised font until […]
Cooking Up Some Creativity
Last weekend, we had our annual team retreat in New Orleans. Yes, we actually worked while we were there. Probably because Mardis Gras hadn’t yet begun, but also because we […]
How Do These Ads Get Approved?
I know most people are over Pepsigate by now. That’s how the 24-hour news cycle works, I guess. I pulled some quotes from an article in the Atlantic (How on […]
Web Design and Storytelling
One thing I’ve continued to learn since joining FCG is that the most important part of designing a website isn’t composing something that is aesthetically beautiful/appealing (although we think we’ve […]
Easy Like Saturday Morning
Toward the end of Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc., Catmull includes a chapter dedicated to tech and design legend Steve Jobs. In that chapter, Catmull shares an exchange between Jobs and a Pixar […]
I Am Not My Job (Repost from SeeJonesCreative)
This is a repost from one of our good friends, and a very talented designer/artist, Chris Jones of SeeJones Creative. I Am Not My Job So…about a week ago, I […]
6 Surprising Ways to Get More Creative
Here are six surprising facts you might not already know about how the creative mind works, which can hopefully to get your own creative juices flowing: 1. Workplace clutter […]
6 Tips for Creating Useful Content Really Fast
Creating content on a regular basis for your company’s website, blog, and social media channels is no easy task. Therefore, our strategy focuses on efficiency and effectiveness. We understand that our […]