Jim Coudal

Jim Coudal

President

Coudal Partners

Chicago, IL / USA

Jim Coudal is the founder and president of Coudal Partners in Chicago. The firm is a design and advertising consultancy without clients. Currently the firm operates and manages Field Notes Brand, a joint venture with the Draplin Design Company of Portland Oregon. Field Notes creates, produces, markets and distributes consumer products. Coudal also owns and operates The Deck Network, an online ad network targeting design, web and creative professionals, as well as various other projects and initiatives to varying degrees of success and sanity. Proudly without business plan for the last 15 years, Coudal Partners has been accused of merely "following their whims to their logical or illogical conclusions" and they're pretty much all right with that.

TALK TOPIC

Procrastination is your friend. Did you ever notice that the most productive time to start a new project is when you have a deadline for another project hanging over you head? There's a reason for that. Once you realize what it is you're actually doing by always procrastinating as long as possible, you'll learn to love deadlines, not dread them.


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Speaker Project

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Speaker Project

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Speaker Project

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