Design Surface Patterns From Scratch
Bonnie Christine
Get organized and get to work! (Yes, you can.)
Short on time? This class is available HERE as a Fast Class, exclusively for CreativeLive subscribers.
You have everything you need to create and implement effective, lasting organizational systems, whether you know it or not. As creatives we’re taught to believe this isn’t true.
Do any of these common myths about creatives sound familiar to you?
These false ideas keep so many creatives from even trying to seek better workflows and organization systems, and ultimately bars the creative from doing better work. Not only that, believing these negative perceptions leave so many feeling stressed, scattered and unable to fully capitalize on their artistic strengths. It’s time to shatter these myths and learn to create the systems you need to your best work as a creative.
Fine artist, illustrator and author Lisa Congdon has worked with over 75 clients around the world including MoMA, REI Co-op, Harvard University, Martha Stewart Living, Chronicle Books, and Random House Publishing, among many others. In this class she will teach you how to establish effective, workflows and time management strategies that will to streamline your processes and maximize creative work time. Lisa has spent years developing these systems. The monumental success of her career is proof these systems work. Join us.
In this class you will learn:
So thorough and I can really see using these concepts to gather all my random to-dos, tasks, order fulfillment, etc into a single, cohesive system. I’m excited and motivated to get to work!
I found this course to be very helpful. I was using some of the key principles already instinctively but Lisa helped me see how to fine tune and actually think about why my version of a to do list and workflow list is not that effective. This class was just the right length and I liked that there were questions from the group. I'm looking forward to watching my next Lisa Congdon course. I am an Art Professor and I should add that I recommend to all my students that they must buy Lisa's book, ART Inc. The great info she offers in that book is what inspired me to purchase this course.
This was SOOOO helpful. I am an illustrator, juggling wholesale, an online shop, commissions and doing markets, all around young kids. I've been playing with all of these time management ideas that Lisa talks about, but not very succesfully because I have never tied them up and linked them together like this. Thank you!
Excellent!! A revelation! Not an ounce of time wasted here. I learned SO much that I am already putting into practice!
Excellent!!!!
I'm a hot mess. This should prove highly helpful! Thank you Lisa!
I have only been using this system for a couple of weeks since taking the class, and it has already changed the way I work for the better! It's simple and straightforward to implement but it has a HUGE impact. It's such a good class and I have already recommended it to other creative business friends. I love it.
Just completed this class and I can already tell that many of these tools will be life changing. Truly exactly what I was hoping for and needing. Thank you!
Really useful tools and tips from an artist with truly impressive productivity. Thank you for sharing your system.
trying to find ways to push my self out of bed and work!!!!!
This class helped me to refine some things I was already doing to stay organized and gave me a clearer picture of how to use my systems to stay motivated and break long term projects down into more manageable pieces.
Loved the way Lisa´s energy transmits and empowers. The methodology is really useful :) Reccommended!
I purchased this class years and years and years ago. My creative work varies from being employed at a studio and freelancing, so I have been on and off with this organising system. None the less, every time I realise I need to be more organised and proactive and pragmatic, especially during lockdown I return to this class. Revisiting this class years on always helps me re-focus, re-energise and nut out all the details I need to finish my creative projects. It's a very clever and simple approach to managing every little to big job needed to be done.
This class was very helpful.
I think this system would help any kind of artist, or anyone who works from home and is faced with the daunting prospect of structuring your own time. I’m a writer, so this system doesn’t translate perfectly but this was still an extremely helpful system for organizing projects and time. I am grateful for this class!
Loved this class, it gave me some really useful and much needed pointers to organising my working day and my life in general. It also gently pushed me into learning how to use spreadsheets, something I've been meaning to do for a long time. I've been using the system for almost a week now and already I feel more in control of my life and calmer, knowing all the stuff I have to think about is no longer in my head but on my spreadsheet, leaving lots of extra brain space for new ideas! I've also read most of Lisa's books and found them to be super useful and inspirational, thanks Lisa!
Lisa is engaging, inspriing and motivating. She is a born leader and I will watch this again and again. I found my excitement for my completing my goals/tasks growing and that laser focus, zeroing in as the class progressed. Thank you Lisa! New Fan for life!!! - @everythingmcnutt PS I purchased this class for my sister and bought the class pass bc of this class.
Great class with practical tips for getting my act together.
I had recently learned about time blocking but on a relatively surface level, so this class was super helpful in getting into the details of how to really make this method work for you. Definitely recommend it.
The class is provides a simple workflow model. It can be quite basic, but I think thats what I really needed. I found it to be a quick and motivating course. It was quite easy to watch this at a 1.5 or 2x speed and still understand everything. It is probably longer than necessary but it you can watch quick or skip to sections you want to watch. I found it very helpful and gave me some good ideas about how to approach a multitude of ideas that I want to work on.
Lisa kept me engaged for the full session and was a treat to watch. I will definitely be trying out her system, fingers crossed!
I've done project management before but had become really bogged down in not using those methods when it came to my creative work. I love Lisa's style and how she validates the creative field and the work it takes with these tools. They are straightforward and I like how she gives us exact examples of how to structure time. She also says a lot about accountability which I love!
I'm an organized and productive person, but have struggled to keep on top of my many freelance and personal projects. (I'm a writer and editor, president of my writing guild, mother of four, etc., etc.) This was INCREDIBLY helpful. I've already created my Workflow Google sheet and feel energized in a new way. My weekly priority list and rolling to-do list was similar to yours, but watching this I realized that they weren't as connected as they should be. Also will start using a timer for timeblocks. All to say: Thank you!
Overall, I'm super happy I took the course! As an entrepreneur, artist, and tiny business owner, it's nice to hear perspective from people who have gone through and are going through similar things. Be prepared for some slides to be read word for word (not my favorite thing), and for some thoughts to be a bit scattered and unorganized. However, I got some good information and will implement some of her ideas in my own time management. I paid for the class as a single class, so I'm not sure I'd recommend paying that full single price, but I would definitely recommend the class if you have a class pass! Overall, I would recommend, thanks Lisa!
This class was extremely beneficial to me, WOW! As a full time UI Artist that gets several projects at once, I immediately applied the Google Sheets workflow to a large multi part task. Separating this large task into manageable parts plus time blocking to ensure I knew each day what id be working on helped to focus me and I found I felt WAY less overwhelmed! Im going to continue this system for sure. Thank you Lisa!!
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