Taking a look at physical and mental health, joy, judgement, and imposter syndrome, our guide will help set you up for sustainable success.
The illustrator with a distinctive, joyful style reflects on how they developed a creative philosophy of care. Their work is informed by nostalgia, resisting pressure to design like others, and the value of setting healthy boundaries.
Madeleine Morley —
With nods to Olivia Laing and Edward Hopper, here's how solitude can turn us into keen observers and fuel creativity.
Laura Entis —
Five tips to prevent injury and strain while creating work from cartoonist Kriota Willberg’s book, Draw Stronger.
Mia Pinjuh —
Stop and assess how you’re prioritizing these six areas of your life.
Tina Essmaker —
Veteran and new work-from-homers share self-care practices, rituals, and boundaries to make working remotely successful for creatives.
Tina Essmaker —
Much like your creative practice, your response to stress and uncertainty is a work in progress. Rather than a quick fix, think of it as a discipline to hone. Here are concrete tips from by experts to ease your way to improvement.
Anne Ditmeyer —
Approximately 70 percent of us will experience a period of self-doubt at least once in our lives. Rebuild your confidence using these five strategies.
Christian Jarrett —
It may be confusing to feel a sense of loss after someone we've never met in real life passes on, but there's no one right way to approach grief.
Anne Ditmeyer —
Designers Dani Balenson and Indhira Rojas spoke about redefining the language of mental health, growing into their illnesses, and developing communities around their work.
Perrin Drumm —
The Brooklyn-based illustrator shares his path of professional self-discovery, the hard-won advice he gives to aspiring artists, and how to bring stability to the otherwise uncertain life of a freelancer.
Mia Pinjuh —
New Museum's Ian Sullivan and singer-songwriter Alexa Wilding on what their son’s brain tumor diagnosis taught them.
Sandra Nygaard —
Achieving is great, but, as Jessica Hische has learned, real accomplishment is pushing through the initial fear in both life and work to actually start creating.
Sandra Nygaard —
The author and IDEO Fellow is a purveyor of joy. In her new book 'Joyful,' author and IDEO Fellow Ingrid Fetell Lee embraces color, abundance and bubbles. And you should too.
Emily Ludolph —
Drawing from personal experience managing cystic fibrosis, illness is the subject that underpins all of HTML Flowers's visual and musical work.
James Cartwright —
Three psychological barriers explain our tendency to favor absolutes, rather than act as we should as creatives: like investigators.
Jay Acunzo —