Given our team's obsession for tips and insights on how to execute bold ideas (there's even a Behance book coming out that is aptly titled "Making Ideas Happen"), we were thrilled to provide a few questions for the legendary Sir Richard Branson. As you may know, Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin and has executed innumerable ideas. And as you can imagine, our questions for him are all about EXECUTION, and how he pushes bold ideas to completion.

Our questions will be asked during an upcoming webinar with Richard Branson on 3/17. 

But the good news is that YOU can also ask Richard any burning questions that you have as well. The form to submit your questions can be found here. 

We're thrilled to participate in this initiative made possible by one of our sponsors, WebEx. 

We shall see what Sir Branson has to say for himself...

Charles Williams, a UK based designer specializing in Typography shared his Behance Success story with us this week:

I posted some typography on Behance in October 2008 - just a selection of various typographic bits I'd worked on in the past 2 years in a project called "Typos."

A publishing house in Shanghai contacted me - Artpower - and said they would like to publish some typographic works for a new type publication. Here’s the result.

I'm really grateful to Behance for the exposure and am more passionate and committed to my work than ever before as a result!

Last week on Twitter and Facebook, we asked you what creative fields you were most excited to see progress from in 2010. We loved hearing your thoughts, from the very specific (ex. Brain Synapse Replications) to the pandemic (common sense and education). Here are a selection of responses: 

Yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, we asked you what your go-to websites for creative inspiration were. Many of you responded - we chose some tweets and Facebook posts suggesting excellent creative websites to share with you today.  We hope you add some of them to your daily creative roster or Google Reader!

Enjoy! 

Looking back on 2009, we're incredibly proud of the progress the Behance Network has made, and excited in anticipation of the major upgrades and developments that are on the way. Have a look at our "2009 And The Year Ahead" email that was sent to our community last week. Highlights below:

• In 2009, the Behance Network had over 25 million visitors
•  We launched our first round of The Served sites, in the following creative industries: Industrial Design, Typography, Photography, Motion Graphics, and Fashion.
•  Behance now powers the portfolio sites for MTV and AIGA, with more partnerships in the works.
  
• We are in the process of developing major design and technology upgrades to the entire Behance Network - stay tuned!
  

Each day, you'll notice fresh featured content on the Behance Network and our Served Sites. We're proud to show you the very best from our talented network of Creative Professionals, to help these greats get the exposure they deserve. Each day, the curators go through every single project that is uploaded; we get a lot of questions from network members asking how we choose the featured content on both the Behance Network and The Served sites.

Well, we'll tell you (what we can). Innumerable factors go into how featured work is chosen, but the Curatorial Team has put together a list of a few outstanding features that they look for when sorting through the freshly uploaded projects each day. If you won't rest easy until your work gets on the front page or a Served site, keep these guidelines in mind:

Length
We appreciate length in a project; if you project has only 1 or 2 images, it will not be featured. There is no limit on length - the longer the better!

Concept
The project should hang together around one central concept or idea. A project shouldn't be "all about your design," but incorporate your great design in a fluid and conceptual way.

Presentation
To us, clean, organized, and professional presentation of work is as important as quality of work.

The Behance team was invited to take part in HP's "Input/Output" interview series. So far, the series has featured Chris Anderson (WIRED) George Halvorson (CEO Kaiser Permanente), and Richard Florida, (best selling author, The Rise of the Creative Class). HP has asked us to help cover the conversation with this week's interviewee, author James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds.

We're extremely interested in the impact that crowds have on how decisions are made and collective wisdom; we're happy to participate in the event. The interview starts at 1pm EST on Wednesday, January 13. You can follow some of the commentary on our team's unofficial twitter account: @behanceteam (as opposed to the standard one that is less conversational: @behance ).

Thanks to HP for helping plan this event and inviting us to participate - as a sponsor of Behance, they help make it possible for us to keep up and running.

Head designer Matias Corea hosted a little Helvetica 101 session with the Behance team last week. For those who haven't seen the documentary about the classic typeface - which, by the way, is required viewing for new hires at Behance - it is ubiquitous on the web and in design circles. Here he is illuminating the differences between Arial and Helvetica, after which he gave us a quiz. We all passed! Check out this chart to spot the difference yourself, and then take a quiz if you're feeling inspired.

The Behance team was just invited to take part in HP's "Input/Output" interview series. 

So far, the series has included interviews with folks such as Chris Anderson at WIRED  and George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente. HP has asked us to help cover the conversation with next week's  interviewee, best-selling author,  Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class.

We are certainly interested in the rise and growth the the "creative class," and we look forward to sharing some of the highlights/insights from this interview. The interview starts at 2pm EST on Monday, December 14th. You can follow some of the commentary on our team's unofficial twitter account: @behanceteam (as opposed to the standard one that is less conversational: @behance ).

PS: Many thanks to HP for helping plan this event and inviting us to participate - as a sponsor of Behance, they help make it possible for us to keep up and running...  Gracias.

On Friday, November 20th, our very own Chief of Design, Matias Corea, spoke at one of NYC's monthly Creative Mornings meetups. The events feature an eclectic gathering of creatives and a keynote speaker discussing a variety of industry topics.

You can see more pics from the event here.