Tag: atim annette oton

• March 19, 2014

  Design Wednesdays: 3 Project Definitions and Needs

  by Atim Annette Oton My three projects that I work on are: Calabar Imports, my retail company, The Creative Side, a fashion and design incubator, and Atim Oton Consulting. Each of these projects are businesses that I define as part of me and my passions. It is part of the third stage of following my life’s path in…
• March 5, 2014

  Design Wednesdays: Vision Map

  by Atim Annette Oton Have you sketched an idea down before for a client? Have you been keeping your dreams in your head. Well, it’s time to put it down on paper. And I call this process life mapping and my tool is a Vision map. A number of designers wonder and ask me why I…
• January 16, 2014

  Johanna Flores, Christine Facella and Andrea Miranda Salas: 9 Designers and Artists I Know

  9 Designers and Artists I Know is a 2014 series of stories of nine designers and artists I know and admire as they navigate their world and produce art and design projects that make me want to work even harder. I repeat, I admire their talent, work and spirit. by Atim Annette Oton In my first blog…
• November 9, 2013

  Story Telling as African Artists and Designers

  by Atim Annette Oton As a child of a writer and journalist and an African woman, I realized very early that I was and am a story teller. I come from a country of very powerful story tellers: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and their stories take you on a journey that inspires you to…
• September 23, 2013

  Enjoying the Creative Process: A Lifetime Process

  by Atim Annette Oton Several of my last postings have focused on the perils of artists and designers;so this week, I begin exploring the process of creativity that blossoms in the hands of success. My good friend Patricia would say that New York’s sun affected my mood this morning so, alas, the positive mode. Last…
• September 20, 2013

  The Artist’s and Designer’s Cover-up: Fronting, Stuck, Hiding and Running Away

  by Atim Annette Oton My last 13 years of working with artists and designers have revealed some deep and critical issues about how they handle themselves in crisis or make critical decisions. What it shows are four destructive paths that form the basis of self sabotage and result in failure, so when I began to…
• September 11, 2013

  Fear: artist’s and designer’s paralysis

  When I was an Associate Chair of Product Design at Parsons from 2000 to 2006, it often amazed me how many students I would talk with about fear and give them this simple comment: Take a risk, life is too short. Mark Twain said “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things…
• July 31, 2013

  Inspiring Designers Across the Globe: Making Sense of the Art of Doing

  The Last Week: 7 days of Inspiring Designers by Atim Annette Oton This July, I decided to write a short series of inspiring notes for designers on my Facebook page called Lesson of the Day. It was simple, a daily motivational paragraph to inspire designers and others to rise early and do what they need…