Creative professionals — graphic designers, artists, photographers and others — are extremely sensitive to the changing winds of the economy. While creative work is critical to business success, clients often have an imperfect view about the process and value of creative labor. Thus, designers have to figure out how to navigate their own survival mechanisms in this new social media-dominated, mobile-oriented economy and learn to use the many existing tools and opportunities to their best advantage. An SXSW panel called The Rise of the Creative Economy focused not only on how creative pros survive and prosper in a competitive crowdfunded environment, but how they can use…
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