Mentoring essays

Paying Your Dues Without Selling Your Soul

(photo: Vinduhl)

How do you strike a balance between being an exuberant young artist with vision—a supporting cast member and ever-ready helper—and being a frustrated doormat? The stories told in this collection, curated by Petrula Vrontikis, vary in situation and circumstance, but there are common themes of hope and reflection. Read from Petrula about this collection.

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On Paying and Paying and Paying and Paying Your Dues
by Terry Lee Stone
Oct 07, 2005(2)
My best advice on this subject is to just drop the notion that dues paying ever really ends. I don't think I've ever stopped paying my dues, and it's been over 20 years since I graduated from art school and got my first job in graphic design.

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Paying Dues for a Purpose
by Bruce Sterling
Oct 07, 2005(0)
Most devotees of design are either refined connoisseurs or starstruck fans of big-name designers. I'm a devotee too, but I'm not at all like that ...

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Paying One's Dues is How One Earns Self-Respect, and the Respect of Others
by Michael Patrick Cronan
Oct 07, 2005(3)
Payment comes in different forms. Time, energy, intellectual attention and patience are all legal tender; most dues are paid in combinations of those items ...

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Paying Your Dues Without Selling Your Soul
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by Petrula Vrontikis
Oct 07, 2005(12)
How do you strike the balance between exuberant young artist with vision, supporting cast member, ever-ready helper, and frustrated doormat?

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Square-One All Over Again
by Armin Vit
Oct 07, 2005(2)
No matter what state of your career you are in, you’re never too old or too established to pay your dues.

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Stay Up Late
by Michael Bierut
Oct 07, 2005(12)
One week after I graduated from college in Ohio, I moved to New York with my new wife Dorothy and began working as a design assistant at Vignelli Associates ...