After regular writing and then a couple of sporadic, painful posts a few months ago, it’s time for a more positive catch up for 2017.
The dark water creature of grief has gone back to its cold depths, where it > Read more
Entrepreneurship
Branding presentation at Zhongshan Innovation Seminar
Work and life intersected in a surprising way last week during an ancestry trip I took to China. While researching my Chinese ancestors online over Christmas last year, I found a distant cousin in California who in turn put me > Read more
Interview with Yanyan Ji
Connections
I don’t remember when or how I first heard of Graphic Thought Facility, but I’ve had my eye on them from the days before starting my first design consultancy, Vivian Cipolla, with my friend Luca in 2002. Two friends > Read more
Apples and Pears…
…is what this evocative neon sign in London’s Soho says, in Italian. After writing about how much I dislike typical networking events, I somehow found myself chock-a-block (or the more expressive ‘chokka’) with slightly more unconventional events this week, all > Read more
I married my business partner
More precisely, I became business partners with my husband. But I won’t let the facts get in the way of a catchy title!
I have had two business partners. The first, Luca de Salvia, and I parted ways after > Read more
Is networking worth it?
It’s ungodly-o’clock and you’re on the first train to London – the 5:43am one. The networking meeting is 6:45-8:30am, finishing ‘just in time for the start of the business day.’ No. My business day starts minimum 9am, if not 10am > Read more
Do you need a path to follow?
I’m not talking about Photoshop paths, which are quite useful in their own right, but: what’s the objective of having objectives?
True to the blog’s name, Design and a Dog, this question of having a goal and a path > Read more