How These Designers Found Success on the Fringe
Husband-and-wife duo Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy have built a following for an array of well-made niche products.
Broccoli, a Print Magazine About Cannabis, Has High Hopes for the Future
For the editor-in-chief of Broccoli, a women-centric magazine about cannabis culture, keeping up with rapid change is an exhilarating challenge.
By Laura Entis
Why Self-Observation Is the Skill of the Future
If there's one certainty about the future, it's that things are speeding up, not slowing down.
By The 99U Team
Meet the Founder of Bev, the Canned Rosé That’s Taking on Toxic Masculinity
Bev Founder Alix Peabody is aiming to bring change to a beer-saturated market.
Move Over, Canvas Totes: Reusable Straws Could Be the New ‘It’ Accessory
With plastic straw bans going into effect across the country, eco-friendly alternatives are catching on with consumers.
Grace Bonney: What I Learned in My 15 Years of Running Design*Sponge
One of the internet's most popular design blogs is coming to an end. In an interview with 99U, Design*Sponge Founder Grace Bonney reflects on the realities of getting creative projects off the ground and shares her hopes for the future of design media.
By Laura Entis
How to Create Your Dream Job Inside a Company
With the job landscape rapidly changing, experts say there’s an opportunity for workers -- particularly creatives -- to engineer roles that suit their own interests and aspirations while benefiting their employer.
After an Iconic Logo, What’s Left to Create?
One can create an amazing logo, but so much of a visual identity’s success is wrapped up in external factors, particularly the fate of the company itself. With no guarantees that one “big break” will lead to another, the designers behind the Apple, Google, and Pinterest logos realized they must develop their own barometers for success.
Vivienne Ming: The High Stakes of AI Will Make Us All Explorers and Entrepreneurs
AI expert Dr. Vivienne Ming breaks down robots, humans, and how the two can work creatively together.
