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Searching for results.Just turning in just like an amazing, you know, he's 55 now, I think, and just ripping it, just ripped it. Like watching, you know, like watching the world series. .701) .974) You know, just like a grand slam. So those…
Have an idea and then you go to the page and you write it down. And so much of the time I think it's actually the opposite is you go to the page and you start moving your brush or your pen or your pencil or whatever you…
Hours and try to see the thing that people aren't paying attention to. I wonder if you could talk about where that comes from, how that gets cultivated, because seeing it's where ideas come from, it's where…
Books that made us reexamine the creative process in 2025 Every year, a handful of books stick with us long after the last page—shaping how we think about creativity, culture, technology, and the work we choose to…
The Design Better summer reading list As you head out on holiday this summer, it’s always nice to have a couple good reads tucked in a bag to pass the time. Our reading list this summer has nothing that would pass as…
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…
Subscription-based model, not an ad-based model, where you're delivering work that you care about and that people can tell you care about to the people who want to hear from you. They opted in. You're not bleating to…
Working well together, in the room and across distance. By Elijah Woolery and Aarron Walter.
Our primary mission is to produce work that helps people like you refine your craft, improve your collaboration skills, and get inspired by the creative process of others. If you enjoy what we do here, the best way to…
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…
Self-serving biases where if we achieve anything, it's because of our hard work and brilliance. If other people achieve anything, it's because they got lucky and we don't factor in enough about the role of luck in our…
Creativity is a discipline in optimism because in order to move through life, you have to believe there's a better way. In order to believe there's a better way, you have to be optimistic. Then you can be creative. If…
Just get to work. Because you have to warm those muscles up. You wouldn't ask an athlete to, okay, now just go out on the field and do that thing. It's so magical. But you have to warm up. So just get to work. My friend…
A lot of inspiring stuff throughout your book, but we're also curious, is there anything that's either in the book or outside of it that's particularly inspiring you right now? And that could be TV show, novel…
For the next song to appear. You had to actually release that idea. And I think there's something there in terms of the expenses that you're talking about it's almost like emotional expenses that come with it where it's…
Out wide and flat lenses. You’ll start to notice f-stops and depth of field. You’ll start to see the choices made that everyone else just feels. You’ll be able to notice the choices that make all the difference. This is…
It becomes a much easier design project which presumably you know how to do because you're a designer mm-hmm yeah I think all of that is great perspective I just published this week an issue of the brief on portfolios…
The great artists through history are people who know how to listen to their instincts and trust them and people who know how to follow their energy even when it is not at all clear where it might lead or how it might…
Reading those in front of an audience where he sees where the laugh lines are, where they don't happen. Then he edits his books 50 times, like 40, 50 times before it goes to an editor. Editor come
Turn It Over This week on the show: Aaron Draplin , founder of Draplin Design Co ., on origin stories, junk stores, and the kind of generosity that never makes it into a design portfolio. Listen to the episode Aaron…
Going to end. That's one reason they like to start with the idea and then they just execute the idea. But the effect of creativity is going to come from that space of ambiguity where ideas emerge. So at the beginning…
Romanticized shenanigans of the tech world, you know, the long hours and the brutal, you know, you'll be here, you know, whatever. So yeah, I mean usually what it's it's just like you'd see at any decent workplace, you…
This is an audio version of the brief the design better newsletter that takes you deeper into the insights we've uncovered through hundreds of interviews with creative thinkers I'm Eli willery what designers can learn…
Thing, and again, social media is terrible. It's like, are we cooked? I don't know, am I cooked? It's like, you're not cooked. It's intent. It's all intent. It's like, are you trying to make a workflow to automate your…
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