Instructor: Aliyah Marr, Author & Speaker

Duration: 28:27 minutes

Added November 2008

Self-promotion is a necessity for designers contending with today's challenging economic climate. Unfortunately, designers often view self-promotion as an impossibly complex, expensive, and competitive endeavor. To Aliyah Marr, however, the process of self-branding is as simple and natural as falling in love. She offers strategies that will help you develop your own personal design brand and communicate it to potential clients and employers. Aliyah also showcases unconventional websites, digital movies, and business cards that make a powerful impression, often with a very small budget.

About Aliyah Marr

Author of a groundbreaking book on creative development named Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity, Aliyah Marr is a multimedia artist, graphic designer, and educator. She has explored painting, design, artistic gymnastics, sculpture, music, ice skating, dance, poetry, prose, and improvisational humor. As a visual artist, she works in a variety of mediums from painting and sculpture through to interactive art and video art.

A graphic designer with a stellar client list of Fortune 100 companies, the author is also a business and marketing mentor for startup companies and entrepreneurs. As an educator, she has taught graphic design, art, interactive programming, and new media at three top design schools in New York City.

www.parallelmindbook.com (book)
www.linkedin.com/in/aliyahmarr (author/artist)
www.radi8.org (art)
www.freshasylum.com (design)