Emily Ludolph
Emily Ludolph is a director at West Wing Writers. She has published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Artsy, Airmail, Eye on Design, JSTOR Daily, Quartz, Narratively, TED Online and Design Observer.
Alexis Lloyd: Small Design Choices Can Change the Internet
The new VP of Product Design at Medium on designing with a playbook, team building as a remote manager, and the future of ethical design.
8 Ways to Flip Your Fear of Conflict
How to stop being scared of disagreements and make them productive.
Burnout, Layoffs, and Fyre Fest: The Art of Bouncing Back from Failure
Picking up the pieces after a major career blow can be fraught with obstacles and self-doubt. We spoke to a handful of creatives about lessons learned and how they managed to come out on the other side after an apparent crash-and-burn moment.
Stephanie Yung: From Fertility to Identity, Design Can Dismantle Isolation
Stress can have a major negative effect on a fertility experience. With that in mind, Smart’s Director of Design wondered, why is the fertility process such a lonely mess—especially for a single parent?
The Cottage Design Industry Popping Up Around the 2020 Elections
As upstart campaigns like that of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez become a new normal in American politics, a cottage industry of design agencies, more used to digital campaigns than political ones, is growing up around these candidates and rethinking what it looks like to run for office in 2020.
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.
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.
Eddie Opara: On Criticism Versus Trolling, Fragmentation of Design, and Joining Pentagram
The designer with one foot in America and one in Europe discusses what it takes to be a Pentagram partner, the poor design of US passports, and why we must pay more attention to graphic design.
Watch Out for These Phrases Designed to Trap Freelancers
A no-nonsense crew, including Gail Anderson, Pum Lefebure, and Mac Premo call out the jargon, manipulation, bad intentions, good intentions but bad behavior, and downright BS that should make creatives run the other way.
More Than Ever, Creativity Demands Courage
The theme for 99U 2019 was 'The Creative Future,' which permeated conversations among attendees and sparked unexpected connections.