A classroom sensitive to the climate for school children in Guinea Bissau, Africa. Continue reading

"Putting a traditional CEO at the front of the modern workforce is anachronistic!" Six defining characteristic of a DEO as listed in the book will give you a hint to what is required to empower, engage and get to execution with a co creative team. Continue reading

Business models for creative businesses? Look at #CockPitArts Making it business tool kit. Continue reading

Isolating a skill and elevating it with good design and some great market linkages can make for a some girl economic empowerment ... Continue reading

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Makers rise to the top with company name change after 75 years! Continue reading

One year later, I received a phone call to verify my mailing address. That's one year after my close of service in the U.S. Peace Corps. To commemorate, I went through my project notes, grant applications, photos, drawings and numbered them up under the heading "My Macedonia Timeline" over at the top left column. While I served, I piled up quite a bit of images. Photos, drawings and AI files and put my personal blogs on hold per the Peace Corp rules. goAWAYgear and Travel Happy are up and running now and tablesetGO is in alpha 1 and forming. My... Continue reading

"small batch from scratch" . . . a way to convey your methods, what matters to you and what is timely. Continue reading

Have a creative business and trying to figure out your cash flow? Maybe a little of my cake can do it! -along with your ipad. Continue reading

I turned the cup over to see the "Monsoojat Foundation" and that began my search into the embroidery designs of Saudi Arabia. . . and I erased my thought that the women only wear black. Continue reading

Whether an artist, an artisan or a cooperative, everyone needs their "signature sheep." Continue reading

"Capture a skill at its finest, elevate it with proper design and you got a luxury product." Continue reading

Policy and Decision Makers convene to discuss handcrafts and historic places Continue reading

Jasmina is in touch with her creative senses. She works with adobe illustrator to design her compositions, makes handmade paper, chooses wood or leather for laser cuts to make her creations. Continue reading

The characters are inspired by the rural culture of Macedonia with pre concept work in collages. Take a look at the link to our album of our process as we launch our products and adjust for production. At some point they may morph to functional items. ништо нешто is just the beginning. TAS mania, micro designer with Lilijana, Kiro and Lazar as artisans. Continue reading

Cross the border is a world a part. And what did I find? Partners willing to cooperate. Continue reading

It is not so fun doing this alone. Continue reading

Italy a Peace Corps country? Only if you make it. . . read our story of traveling on a STEP beyond collaborative grant and see what is possible. . . Twelve hundred meters up among the Dolomites is a vortex of sorts, where 1000 wood carvers and fine art sculptors live. Continue reading

What is "Dot" about? That point, that dot if you will, when resources connect and idea becomes a possibility. the headline: Two French Girls come to Negotino to teach pinhole photography... Continue reading

Carving wood European style... really this is my Peace Corps experience! Florence and the Val Gardena area of Italy for the summer. Continue reading

All I ask? Keep in mind, when you write, you directly, inadvertently, sometimes, always represent the rest of us, collectively. And it worries me that others won't extend a second chance to read about truly great achievers. Continue reading

With determination and drive, he will go. I am sure of it...., because every artists needs supporters, that communicate their vision and help connect them to potential collectors. Continue reading

when you feel like ,,,, We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. ~ Mother Teresa Just sit peacefully behind the Mother Theresa House, bend down and look left through the trees and you will see what I mean. -a mosaic, ironwork and plaster paradise. Continue reading