Why Art and Craft Matter on the Art Biz Success Podcast

Last month, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Alyson Stanfield for her Art Biz Success podcast. She specifically asked me to come on and talk about the value of stuff in our lives and why art and handmade objects aren’t part of the problem of consumerism, but the solution! We both decided that …

The 10 Most Popular Posts on Designing an MBA from the Last 10 Years

Clearly celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Designing an MBA has me feeling a little nostalgic. But it also has me curious to see what’s resonated with readers over the years. So today, I thought I’d share the ten most popular posts on DMBA, based purely on number of views. (I’m also going to share …

The 10 best business books I read (and listened to) in 2019 for artists and makers

When I first launched Designing an MBA, one of my favorite things to do was highlight the many, many business books I was reading. But over the last few years, as I started spending increasingly more time on my phone, I noticed my reading time had gotten progressively less. So in 2019, I set out …

Three places to use pictures of yourself that aren’t Instagram

I just opened enrollment for the next round of Market Your Selfie. (If you know you’re interested, you can check that out here.) But that got me thinking about a conversation I had back in the spring with a friend of mine. At the height of my frustration with Instagram, I told a friend that …