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Get to know the newest intern to join the BatesMeron team, Adam Barkley! Adam is a junior at Columbia College Chicago, where he is majoring in design and photography. He joins our team with [...]

Say hello to the newest intern to join the BatesMeron ranks, Maggie Curran! Maggie is a second-semester senior at Columbia College here in Chicago. She’s a budding wordsmith of the highest order, [...]

Meet the newest member of the BatesMeron team, Leah Cho! Leah comes to us fresh from Boston University, where she graduated with a BS in Marketing and Strategy & Innovation. She joins our team as [...]

Why Man Creates is a short documentary filmed by the singular graphic design titan Saul Bass and screenwriter Mayo Simon in 1968. It addresses creativity in a way I’ve never seen, by attempting [...]

Recently, a friend emailed me asking for recommendations on articles and sites that focused on trends in writing. She referenced a post I'd written for this very blog about adverbs and their [...]

The days are longer, the air is warmer and Chicagoans are emerging from their apartments in search of summer fun. Growing up, my summer plans were always very simple: do as little of anything [...]

For those who don’t know, MailChimp is an email marketing platform that helps its customers around the world sell goods and advertise their brands. In early 2017, MailChimp embarked on its first [...]

As creatives who are tasked with generating clever ideas, copy and designs for clients daily, we all need a little inspiration to keep us on top of our game. At BatesMeron, our designers are [...]

"We have a big week ahead of us—it's crunch time."  This is a sentiment commonly heard around our small but mighty agency. Like most, we navigate our days with hard deadlines, full to-do lists [...]

Designers, you know it all too well: You’re slaving away for hours on end on a design and all of a sudden you've got nothing. You’ve hit the dreaded Creative Roadblock. Maybe it’s because there [...]