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From Scrappy to Scale—A DIY CEO Explains Why Creatives Should Embrace Capitalism

Feeling a rift between creativity and capital? Vince Kadlubek, who has led the DIY art collective Meow Wolf to national success, looks back on his time on the fringes of the creative economy and shares a few words of wisdom on how creatives can balance business and craft, and why creative companies need to work together.

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UENO founder Haraldur Thorleifsson
Interviews

How Global Design Studio Ueno Maintains Its Creative Soul While Growing Rapidly

Ueno founder Haraldur Thorleifsson shares why the company promotes employees based on how they collaborate, why his company speaks its mind on social and cultural issues, and how they got into the content creation business.

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Beth Comstock; Imagine It Forward
Interviews

Beth Comstock: The Future is for Creatives

In this interview about her new book, Imagine It Forward, Beth Comstock discusses how we can use our imagination to redefine our roles, how we can scale new ideas across organizations, and why creativity will be a key job skill in the years ahead.

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Ingrid Fetell Lee; joyful
Idea Generation

Ingrid Fetell Lee: Our Surroundings Have a Profound Influence On Our Well-Being

In her new book 'Joyful', author and IDEO Fellow Ingrid Fetell Lee embraces color, abundance and bubbles. And you should too.

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How Robinhood uses design to make stock trading accessible.
Decision-Making

How Robinhood Emphasizes Design to Make Stock Trading More Accessible

Robinhood’s senior designer explains how the app’s user-friendly design is making stocks, ETFs, options, and crypto more approachable.

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The Messy Middle; Scott Belsky
Get More Done

Scott Belsky: How to Navigate the Messy Middle of a Creative Venture

The starts and finishes of a project seem to get all the headlines and press, but they don’t adequately reflect the extreme swings that occur during the middle section of a journey. In his new book, The Messy Middle, 99U Founder Scott Belsky shares lessons in entrepreneurship around the crucial, but overlooked part of a creative endeavor.

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Radim Malinic
Interviews

What It Takes to Launch a Profitable Side Hustle

A creative director finds purpose and profit in self-publishing.

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Get Creating

Two Designers Start a No-Judgment Conversation about Mental Health, Creativity, and Work

Designers Dani Balenson and Indhira Rojas interviewed each other about redefining the language of mental health, growing into their illnesses and developing communities around their work.

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Personal Growth

John Maeda: How a Fall Opened a New Chapter of Identity and Inclusion

John Maeda speaks with 99U about a life-changing fall that ultimately motivated him to focus the most recent chapter of his career on inclusive design.

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