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As designers, many of us got into the profession because we had other creative passions. Perhaps we grew up drawing, or painting, or were into music or performing arts. Then the daunting reality of making a living set…
Illustration by Luis Mendo A few months ago, I was on a flight to San Diego, to visit my parents. It was my dad’s birthday in a few days, and mine shortly after. He was in hospice, so I knew it was probably the last…
Working alongside his parents in their historic workshop, he carries this legacy forward, infusing it with his own contemporary artistic vision. Courtesy of VAWAA Geetika Agrawal: I work backwards. For the experience to…
This summer we’re helping you get your portfolio in shape in Portfolio Club . In a recent Substack chat thread, we heard from a lot of folks that they’re stressed out by AI and the job market. People feel behind and…
What Portfolio Club taught us about designing a great portfolio Of everything you’ll ever design, your portfolio is the hardest to see clearly: you’re too close to judge it the way a stranger would. It’s also easy to…
Stamp. We pulled three things out of this conversation that go beyond “cool logo guy.” How he thinks about identity. How he actually built his design education. What he thinks he owes the people around him now that he’s…
In this issue of The Brief : Observations on designing a personal portfolio Things to watch, read, and explore Job openings Join Portfolio Club Wednesdays 10AM PT/1PM ET Join us every Wednesday through the end of July…
And reference in decisions. Gain confidence creating visual assets — Build simple, effective visuals that bring emotion to your work and make insights easier to understand and harder to ignore — without needing a…
Three ways of working keep surfacing, like body plans that might actually survive the filter. AI x Influence Workshop Bobby Hughes and I have a few spaces left in our upcoming AI x Influence for Design Researchers…
Graphic designer Let’s start with who these designers/artists actually were, because none of them set out to make album covers. Reid Miles trained at Chouinard and wanted to be an art director. Tom Hannan studied under…
I built a career in design for a simple reason: I love to make things. There is a specific, quiet joy in the intersection of a big idea and meticulous craftsmanship. For a long time, I treated this path as a sort of…
Weekly Portfolio Club calls this summer helped our paid subscribers build portfolios that land great jobs . Experts joined us weekly to provide feedback, and we compiled lessons from each session into a portfolio design…
Hi folks! Bobby Hughes and I have created a new workshop offering, aimed at Design Researchers (but also useful if you are a more generalist designer who would like to increase your influence on your team and…
When I was in college, I took a great printmaking class with the artist Enrique Chagoya . There were no assignments — he just taught various techniques, we’d present our work, and he’d offer a helpful critique…
Paying attention to how the world was moving outside Nike to appreciate multidisciplinary convergence, I was open to alternative ways to learn and garner more experience. After some soul searching, I chose the…
Before we get to The Roundu p, we wanted to share some of the exciting guests we have in queue, including: Fiona Crombie, Academy Award-nominated production designer for the film Hamnet. Sam Beam, Grammy Award-nominated…
This week on the show, Aarron and Eli talked with Jessie McGuire , managing partner of Thought Matter , the New York studio whose decade of civic, neighborhood, and cultural work just earned the 2026 National Design…
Where you can generate a pretty good design just by describing it. Her answer: designers are obsessive about quality — and that’s not going away. “Gen AI is no technology that gets you anything close to perfect. It…
How AI Is F*ing Up the Creative Process — and What We Can Do About It Claude Code and Claude Cowork have become the darlings of the tech world, and the mood across design and research teams right now is something close…
The designer Stefan Sagmeister isn’t known for being subtle. A poster he created in 1999, for an AIGA lecture he delivered in Detroit, was carved with an X-acto blade into his chest and torso . One prominent feature was…
But this is my first time re-reading Endymion, which explores themes that seem very relevant right now. It’s set in the far future, and explores what forms AGI might take, and what happens when technologies have their…
This past October, we had the opportunity to gather our Design Better Experts in Residence for a conversation at Sequoia Capital. This is an amazing group of people, ranging from Irene Au who helped design the first…
Join us for on Friday, February 27th at a PT for a conversation and AMA with , cartoonist extraordinaire. We’ll chat about his creative process, living a creative life, and what he calls “the slow burn of mastery,” as…
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