We’ve mentioned it before, and for the GTD crowd out there, it’s become second nature. But everything you do that’s related to productivity in design needs to be broken down into micro-tasks.

Your brain is an excellent tool for organizing and task management, but only if you train yourself to do it the right way. Read more →

When Adobe stopped offering their CS Subscription Service, we were a little bit disappointed.

It was a fantastic way to keep up-to-date on the applications we used the most, and it provided a cost-effective way to use a piece of software on a per-project basis. Read more →

We’ve spoken about corporate identity and brand design, so let’s actually get you started on the path to a great corporate identity and a well-recognized brand.

This will be a multi-part series that will guide you step-by-step through the identity creation and design process. By the end of this mini-course, you should be ready to go with a great brand package.

Let’s get started. Read more →

Note: This post is a couple of days late, it was saved as a draft and I forgot to schedule it, my mistake.

This is an article that I have been working on for quite some time. Changes in productivity, systems, and furniture can change the way your day goes drastically, and our recent changes have definitely changed the direction of this article.

It started as a preview of our operations for clients and now we have an article focused on time for our peers. Read more →

Recent (and old) articles around the internet have indicated that multitasking is the devil. Well, maybe not the devil, but a productivity killer, anyway.

We support this ideal of no multitasking, and that’s part of the reason why we don’t take on more than 2 projects at a time. Read more →

Identity design…the art of making a fake driver’s license. Well, not really, but something similar in practice.

Where a fake ID has a birthday, a well-designed brand identity has a font. Where a fake ID has a license number, a corporate identity has a color palette. Read more →

Just Josh here today, no editing and reviews, just raw content about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

It’s no secret that we were against SOPA and PIPA here at Nascent – as a public forum (we have a blog that allows comments), we would have been at considerable risk for not moderating our comments.

But the good news is…SOPA might be dead!

We took part in the blackout along with major sites like Wikipedia and Craigslist, and we’re proud of it! Read more →

We realize that sometimes our clients don’t know exactly what we’re talking about when we’re creating a graphic for Project X. Unfortunately, as designers, we have been educated to use a certain “lingo” that might not make sense to individuals without an art or design background.

In that light, we’re going to try to give our clients a quick run-down of some commonly used words and phrases that designers use. Think of this as a small crash-course before you go and post your project request on whichever job board you use. Read more →

Want to get more done? Finish projects on time, have an organized workflow, an organized home, and a synced up life?

That sounds like a dream-come-true for most designers out there, ourselves included.

I believe it’s a design by nature that artists are typically scattered frantic people, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Read more →

Today we’re going to examine the dark side of business in general for our clients.

Failures, mistakes, regrets, etc. You need to know what each one is, and we’re here to help (because we’ve all made mistakes, had failed projects, and regretted doing something). Read more →