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Brandi Sea Heft-Kniffin • Creative Director

Seriously designers, can we please stop making mood boards?!

There seems to be a collective obsession as designers with the mood board. Even though it is arguably not the not the best use of our…

Mar 29

Seriously designers, can we please stop making mood boards?!

Mar 29

I always say I don’t design logos.

If you use this list as a sort of checklist, a self-audit, you will be able to gauge whether the logo you are working on will be amazing…

Mar 23, 2022

Mar 23, 2022

dealing with the dreaded imposter syndrome

oh, the dreaded imposter syndrome

Mar 10, 2022

dealing with the dreaded imposter syndrome

Mar 10, 2022

Music is a really huge part of the creative process for most designers.

The lyrics “And I don’t want the world to see me, cause I don’t think that they’d understand. When everything’s made to be broken, I just…

Mar 3, 2022

yellow background with black closed eyelashes illustration. words in white say “just let them SEE who you are”

Mar 3, 2022

Don’t Fall in Love (with your ideas)

Let’s be honest, graphic designers have amazing jobs. We get to solve clients’ problems by creating and design thinking, and in the…

Feb 14, 2022

Don’t Fall in Love (with your ideas)

Feb 14, 2022

Hello, I’m Procrastinating.

Procrastination can often look like action. If I know I should be working on my podcast or following up on an email but instead I decide…

Mar 5, 2021

Hello, I’m Procrastinating.

Mar 5, 2021

Embrace Your Weird

Most of my life I have been told that I’m weird. It occurred to me to ask, when did weird become a bad thing? I grew up with parents who…

Jul 10, 2020

Embrace Your Weird

Jul 10, 2020

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How to Use the “Negative Space” in Your Day

Spare minutes are the negative space in your life where you need to take advantage and use wisely. As an independent creative director, I…

Nov 1, 2018

How to Use the “Negative Space” in Your Day

Nov 1, 2018

What Graphic Designers Actually Do

Design can be a thankless job. It is also kind of a kind of invisible job in a lot of ways. People don’t realize that it is all around them…

Dec 6, 2017

What Graphic Designers Actually Do

Dec 6, 2017

A Few Things You Should NOT Say to Your Graphic Designer

For those of you who don’t know, in addition to this blog, I also do a weekly design tip on YouTube as well as a weekly podcast called…

Nov 30, 2017

A Few Things You Should NOT Say to Your Graphic Designer

Nov 30, 2017

Brandi Sea Heft-Kniffin • Creative Director

Brandi Sea Heft-Kniffin • Creative Director

Here to challenge the status quo & shift mindsets around inspiration, creative process, and design strategy. Visit BrandiSea.com for more great content!

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