How to use your design skills to tap a lucrative market

We live in an age where a job advert for a creative director in a digital agency requests an interest in 'social APIs, circuit boards and Arduino units' in order to 'understand how things talk to each other'.

The days of the garret – the untouchable talent in the ivory tower where smoke and mirrors abound – are over. For at least two years, ad agencies have been talking up a move towards product design; and when the slave turns master, you know something interesting is afoot.

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The Creative Bloq team is made up of a group of design fans, and has changed and evolved since Creative Bloq began back in 2012. The current website team consists of eight full-time members of staff: Editor Georgia Coggan, Deputy Editor Rosie Hilder, Ecommerce Editor Beren Neale, Senior News Editor Daniel Piper, Editor, Digital Art and 3D Ian Dean, Tech Reviews Editor Erlingur Einarsson and Ecommerce Writer Beth Nicholls and Staff Writer Natalie Fear, as well as a roster of freelancers from around the world. The 3D World and ImagineFX magazine teams also pitch in, ensuring that content from 3D World and ImagineFX is represented on Creative Bloq. 

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