Alisha and I are heading back to AIGA.
On June 16th we'll be leading a virtual session called "Protecting Your Energy in High-Pressure Creative Environments" as part of AIGA's Practical Institute for Creative Survival.
We built this session around something we hear constantly from creative professionals... the pressure to keep performing, keep producing, and stay inspired, while quietly running out of fuel to do it.
This one is for anyone who has ever pushed through exhaustion and called it dedication.
Don't miss this session.
Registration link: [LINK IN BIO]
#ThrivingCreatively #AIGA #CreativeWellness #BurnoutPrevention #AIGADesign
🏆 Still celebrating the news from last week.
Thriving Creatively has received an Award of Excellence from the 32nd Annual @commawards for our brand identity system in the General Business-to-Business category.
What makes this recognition especially meaningful is that this brand was built with intention. Every color, character, and message was designed to reflect a simple belief: creative success should not come at the expense of your mental health.
To see this work recognized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts is an incredible honor.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our mission, attended a workshop, shared our work, or believed in what we’re building.
We’re just getting started. 💛
Learn more at thrivingcreatively.com
#ThrivingCreatively #CommunicatorAwards #BrandDesign #CreativeWellness #MentalHealthInDesign #DesignForGood #CreativeLeadershi
We won an Excellence Award for Brand Identity at the 32nd Annual Communicator Awards.
And the brand that won? The one we built for ourselves.
Thriving Creatively exists to support the human behind the work. Turns out that mission looks pretty good on paper too.
Grateful. Proud. Back to work.
#ThrivingCreatively #CommunicatorAwards #BrandIdentity #DesignAwards #CreativeProfessionals
Spring is a reminder that creativity, like nature, needs the right conditions to grow.
Rest. Space. Time to breathe.
If you’ve been feeling stuck, step outside.
Your next great idea might be waiting there.
#ThrivingCreatively #CreativeWellbeing #CreativeBurnout #SpringReset #DesignLife
Mental health is now the number one health concern globally.
Not cancer. Not heart disease. Mental health.
45% of people across 31 countries named it the biggest health problem facing their country.
And yet creative professionals are still expected to push through. Stay inspired. Keep producing. Absorb the pressure and deliver anyway.
The creative industry cannot keep asking its people to perform at a high level while treating their mental health as an afterthought.
This is the work we show up to do every day.
More on what we're doing about it very soon.
#ThrivingCreatively #CreativeWellness #MentalHealth #BurnoutPrevention #CreativeIndustry
This one means everything to us.
David Stone hosted Thriving Creatively at aigachicago and took the time to share this. We don’t take that lightly.
When someone says “your audience will thank you, and you will thank yourself,” that’s the whole reason we built this.
Thank you David.
This is why we show up.
#ThrivingCreatively #AigaChicago #Agia #creativewellness
This one means a lot to us.
Thriving Creatively’s Brand Identity System has been recognized with a Communicator Award for Excellence in the General Business-to-Business category. 💛
This brand exists to support the human behind the work. Knowing that the identity itself reflects that standard means everything to us.
None of this happens without Surbhi and Vedant, whose brand knowledge, creative talent and partnership brought this vision to life. We are so grateful.
To every creative professional who has trusted us with their story, this is for you.
#thrivingcreatively #communicatorawards #brandidentity #creativewellness
You don't clock out of being a creative.
It's how you see a problem and immediately start imagining solutions. It's why you rearrange things that don't need rearranging. It's the reason you can't watch a bad presentation without mentally redesigning it.
It's not what you do. It's how you're wired.
And that doesn't change whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or staring at the ceiling at 2am with an idea you have to write down.
Own it.
What's something that makes you realize you can't turn the creative brain off? 👇
#CreativeIdentity #CreativeMindset #ThrivingCreatively #DesignerLife #CreativeCommunity
We asked the room: are creative professionals happier than everyone else? 👀
The silence.
The giggles.
The hesitant hands. Same, honestly.
Here’s what the research actually says: two thirds of creative professionals report work-related stress and burnout.
But here’s the twist – many of us don’t even clock it as stress because we love what we do so much.
Sound familiar?
That’s exactly why we do this work.
Because passion doesn’t protect you from burnout. It just makes it harder to see coming.
Are you thriving or just surviving?
Drop a 🌻 or a 😮💨 below.
#creativeburnout #designerlifestyle #thrivingcreatively #creativewellness #creativecommunity
Creatives, let's normalize making rest part of the creative process.
Research
Rest
Ideate
Rest
Execute
Rest
Refine
Rest
Get paid
Celebrate!!!
#Creative #Designer #Rest #Worklifebalance
Kansas City showed up. 🙌🏾💛
A room full of creative professionals willing to pause, reflect, and have honest conversations about burnout, boundaries, and what it actually takes to sustain a creative career.
The dialogue continued long after the session ended.
That always means the most to us.
Thank you @kcdesignweek for creating a space where this work could happen.
And thank you to every person who brought their full self into the room on a Saturday morning.
This is why we built @thrivingcreatively_ 💛
#ThrivingCreatively #KCDW #KCDesignWeek #CreativeWorkshop
“We are all allowed to be in a room.”
💫🌟💫
Attendees at our Thriving Creatively workshop let affirmations like this soak in and then they shared their own motivational and meditative hacks for staying healthy in a demanding design career. We were so fortunate to bring Alisha and Barney Abramson from @thrivingcreatively_ to share their combined expertise of therapy and design leadership with our community.
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