The Only One in the Room

Ever been the only creative in the room?

No team. No one to gut-check your layout. No “that’s fire” Teams message. Just you, your to-do list, and a creeping sense of “am I spiraling or innovating?”

This week on Out Loud, I wrote about the reality of being a one-person creative team. The autonomy, the weird in-between space where you’re both strategist and production artist, boss and intern, confident and second-guessing everything you just designed.

If you’re ever proofed our own final draft five times because there’s no one else to do it; been asked to “ask the creative team” and you are the creative team; or built an entire brand off a to-do list that starts with “email Phil”...

You’ll get it.