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Matt McCue

Matt McCue is the Editor-in-Chief of 99U. He lives in New York City, but he is willing to travel long distances for a good meal. Find him @mattmccuewriter or email him at mccue@adobe.com. 

Interviews

The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)

A handy guide to navigating what's coming up next in the design world.

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Get Noticed

Essential Steps to Making a Killer Portfolio

A primer on planning, presenting, and posting your best work.

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Interviews

A Street Artist Comes of Age

Rubén Sánchez reimagines neighborhoods with his Cubism-meets-surrealism-meets tribal art paintings.

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Interviews

Non-Format Breaks The Rules

How a design duo collaborates from two different continents, a seven-hour time difference apart.

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Idea Generation

Get Noticed in a Crowded Marketplace By Challenging the Design Tropes

A new wave of craft breweries is using label design to break down gender stereotypes, shape client stories, and express more ideas with fewer graphic elements.

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Get Paid

Career-Propelling Money Advice for Creatives

From negotiating a better rate, to wrangling the important (but not so fun) parts of your freelance business — we combed the 99U archives to find 8 timeless tips to help make you more savvy when selling your work.

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Clients

How to Expertly Define Your Ideas

A picture is worth a thousand words, which is why designers need to be well-versed wordsmiths.

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Getting Hired

From Personal Project to a 40-Book Cover Commission

How one young designer broke into the publishing world on her first try.   

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99U Conference

The 30 Things We Learned at the 2016 99U Conference

A handy roundup of what we learned from the 99U Conference speakers and attendees.

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Get More Done

The Merits of Giving Up on Your Ideas

Don't judge your ideas through a lens filled with beat-tired late nights, sacrificed paychecks, and all the other trademarks of building something from scratch. Instead, view them as investments, so you can better gauge when to move on from a loser.

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Personal Branding

Style Over Everything

Carving out your own artistic voice is the most important thing you can do as a creative. It’s defensible, something you can lean back on regardless of trends and something you can sell that others can’t.

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Get Paid

How Creatives Can Beat the Torturously-Slow Payment Process

Use these 6 strategies to get your hard-earned cash faster.

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