Designers Dani Balenson and Indhira Rojas interviewed each other about redefining the language of mental health, growing into their illnesses and developing communities around their work, and knowing when to quit and how to be okay with that – how to be more than okay with that.
We’ve all had spine-tingling, stomach-roiling episodes of embarrassment. Whether we slip up ourselves or miss a thousand and one warning signs, we’ve all had OMG moments. However, with time and distance, we can often look back and smile rather than cry. In the spirit of having a collective laugh, we asked a few of our favorite designers to relive a time that made their faces burn. Here are their stories.
Sure, it sounds like a wacky job title, but it's a real thing. Steve Clayton charts his unlikely career rise from engineer to hobby blogger to leading storytelling at Microsoft and shares how stories can deliver real value to a company. The secret to a good tale? Stories need to revolve around how products positively impact people.
Every moment of our lives is scored with music and sound. Some of it is human manufactured and some of it is ambient from being part of an analog world. The reality is we respond to sound quicker than any other sense. And Man Made Music founder Joel Beckerman has made that his business by launching and leading his sonic branding company.
Freeman started Blue Bottle Coffee as a side hustle and it has grown from a single espresso cart to 40 locations around the world today. In this interview, he discusses how he used negative space to create a signature design aesthetic, how Blue Bottle carved out its own space in a crowded market, and how his previous career as a musician influenced his approach to business.
Data editor for the Guardian US, Mona Chalabi explains that her end goal isn’t just a shareable image; it’s to make sure readers understand the big picture.
The design luminary and global head of computational design and inclusion at Automattic shares his journey to eye opening new perspectives.
How do the strengths of a designer-founded business actually play out in the office and with the client? And what can we learn from that? MailChimp’s VP of Design on high fives, AI, and connecting the dots.
Our favorite designers and illustrators to walk us through a time when they altered their course.
Jules Ehrhardt made waves in 2016 when he published State of the Digital Nation, a raw and honest look at the major forces threatening the digital consultancy industry. Two years later, the seasoned digital exec has done it again with State of the Digital Nation 2020, painting a bleak picture of the agency landscape, pointing out flaws in the model, and urging creatives to consider their options.
HTML Flowers makes award-winning art in spite of—and to spite—his lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.
