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The Cottage Design Industry Popping Up Around the 2020 Elections
Your first acquaintance with grassroots congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may not have been the moment she won her seat, but rather her saffron campaign signage by Tandem NYC. Now that AOC is successfully in office, Tandem is back on the ground designing campaigns for the next class of candidates. As these upstart movements become more common, another trend has emerged. Unexpected design players, more used to digital campaigns than political ones, are popping up around these candidates. They apply an unlikely blend of startup savvy, experience design, and brand strategy to rethink what it looks like to run for office in 2020, going far beyond logos and email templates.
A World Class Mediator Shares 7 Ways to De-escalate Your Office Tension
Mediation, a form of dispute intervention that focuses on reaching understanding, offers plenty of tactics to help turn fraught deskside conversations into productive ones.
Balancing Act: How to Embrace Both Intuition and Structure in a Creative Freelance Career
Illustrator and artist Laura Chautin on honing creative impulses and embracing support of a community to build a career.
Treading Lightly: How a Fourth-Generation Shoemaker is Changing the Trade She Once Resisted
Sandra Canselier of Coclico explains why she had to escape the family business (and her small, rural French town) in order to bring her true self to the craft. She breaks down why welcoming activism in the workplace can ensure an ethical and sustainable business.
How Productive Creatives Manage Their To-Do Lists
The mess of to do apps, post-it notes, and push notifications we use to make sure that nothing falls through the cracks are unique portraits of our own personal productivity (or lack of it). Whether you’re a multitasking maven or scrambling to stay on top of it, here’s a gallery of creatives and the systems they use to help you own the art of multitasking.
Bowne and Co. Preserves the Skill of Letterpress Printing at the South Street Seaport
Two graphic designers with a love for letterpress have breathed new life into a 250-year-old business, now a living museum, small-run press, and an unofficial clubhouse for print and typeface wonks.
Do You Have A Nose for Branding? The Memorable World of Aroma Design
Berlin-based Maurice Joosten takes us through his scent branding process, with roots in a centuries-old Japanese tradition and very modern take on another dimension of logo work.
What Does the Word Magazine Mean Today?
This year's ModMag Conference took a philosophical approach to the world of magazine creation, ideation, and production.
The First Five Years: How Do I Learn When I Don’t Have Cash to Spend?
Welcome to “The First Five Years” where Mitch Goldstein, a professor of design at Rochester Institute of Technology, answers reader questions related to the uncharted waters of beginning a career. This month, Mitch explains what to do to keep your brain in shape in the gap between the glory of a college library and the holy grail of a professional development budget.
