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TIFFANY MEYERS • WRITER
Thanks for visiting my portfolio, which I threw up this January to mark my five-year anniversary as a freelance writer. Since launching my independent writing career, I’ve written on a range of topics for national publications and clients.
But the majority of my attention is directed to two subject areas in particular. The first: “visual culture,” which I use as shorthand for a cluster of commercial art disciplines, including design, photography, illustration and creativity in advertising. And the second: business and marketing. Increasingly, those subjects intersect.
My feature and cover stories have appeared in magazines like Communication Arts, Advertising Age, Step Inside Design, HOW, Entrepreneur, Metropolis, The Chicago Tribune, Photo District News, American PHOTO, Canada’s Globe & Mail, Graphis and the women’s business magazine PINK, among others.
Some of those articles appear on this page. Others are in the SAMPLES section of this site, to the right. And if you look in the upper right corner, you’ll see a drop down menu. That will allow you to view articles on a certain topic—or articles published in a specific magazine.
If you’re feeling official, I’ve posted an official BIO, but you can contact me via EMAIL, too.
I live and work in in Chicago these days. But I’ve left little bits of my heart in Boston, Baltimore and New York.
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CREATING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES
Metropolis Magazine
Infrastructure Activism
By Tiffany Meyers, November 12, 2009
To introduce his panel at last Thursday’s Infrastructures for Change Workshop, in Chicago, Giles Jacknain reminded us that the ancient Greeks had two words for city. The first was asty—or the inanimate bricks and mortar. The other: polis, or the city as a human entity. The conversation we were about to have, he suggested, was about moving from “asty to polis.”
Jacknain is the founder of the consultancy the Oikos Collective and a faculty member of Archeworks, which sponsored the day-long Infrastructures for Change event. The conference offered a mash-up of bottom-up and top-down projects designed to make cities of the future sustainable “before it’s too late,” as more than one speaker put it. It’s the first in a series of Archeworks workshops that will showcase design alternatives to Read the rest of this entry »
ENTREPRENEURS: STRESS + THE RECESSION
Author’s Note: Earlier in the year, my editors at Entrepreneur realized that business magazines were full of tips for keeping small businesses healthy in the recession. But what about keeping a healthy mind? To find out how entrepreneurs were (or weren’t) dealing with the stress of this recession, I checked in with psychologists and entrepreneurs alike.
Entrepreneur Magazine
The Psychology of Stress: You’ve managed to keep your business afloat, but how are you managing the stress?
By Tiffany Meyers | April 2009
In the economic tailspin of the late 2000s, loss is part of life. Workers are losing their jobs, employers are losing their businesses, and as credit becomes more and more scarce, everyone is losing confidence. What’s more, entrepreneurs are grappling with a sense that they’ve lost control of critical factors that could determine their futures….
Read the rest of this article on Entrepreneur Magazine’s site.
Or…check out some of my other other Entrepreneur Mag stories.
CHICAGO’S FULTON MARKET DISTRICT
The Globe & Mail Newspaper
Chicago’s Fulton Market District
By Tiffany Meyers, December 16
Author’s Note: Canada’s Globe & Mail asked me to write up my favorite spots in my favorite Chicago neighborhood. It was easy to choose. The meatpacking district in Chicago–along and around Fulton Market Street–is an enthralling clash between haute design and yet-to-be-fully-gentrified industry grit.
Chicago is often known as the Windy City, a designation born of its cold lakefront gusts (and windbag politicians). But to score points in the Fulton Market District, use Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago poet Carl Sandburg’s term for the city: “Hog Butcher for the World.” The Union Stockyards once dominated these streets and, yes, the world. Maharajas visited the unlikely tourist destination. So did Henry Ford.
After decades of decline, though, the Yards closed in 1971, leaving the area to seafood and meat wholesalers – and an underground warehouse party scene that raged on until the 1990s. That’s when a few restaurateurs parachuted in, opening upscale eateries (such as Vivo and Marché) on Randolph Street, then an industrial wasteland. Read the rest of this entry »
