10 Characteristics of Creatives
I’m currently re-reading Ellen Shapiro’s “Graphic Designer’s Guide to Clients: How to Make Clients Happy and Do Great Work” . Although she speaks specifically to designers, I’ve found that a good many of her ideas would apply to just about anyone working in a creative field. Read below where she notes Ed Gold’s “10 common characteristics of great designers”:
The top two
1. talent (their work flat-out looks good)
2. advocacy or sales abilityand
3. curiosity
4. dissatisfaction
4. perfectionism
5. energy
6. confidencea balance of…
7. idealism
8. realism
9. witand
10. they just love their work
“A designer who can’t sell an idea is probably not going to be very successful,” [Gold] says, adding, “I’ll go a step further. A designer who can’t sell an idea will never be a great designer.”
