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Big Ideas

Julia Bainbridge in a red coat standing alone in a living room

The Joyful, Messy, Sometimes Lonely Uncertainty of Pursuing a Creative Life

How freelance writer Julia Bainbridge has turned introspection into an art and a career.

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6 Predictions for Creatives in 2019

With tech speeding ahead, what's in store for creatives? We asked the pros for their best guess.

Che-Wei Wang & Taylor Levy of Brooklyn’s CW & T studios

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.

Two side-by-side issues of Broccoli magazine

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.

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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.

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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.

A bamboo straw floats in a lemonade. Photo courtesy of Buluh Straws.

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.