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Searching for results.Cooper Union during Constitution Week in September 2017. First Amendment , Milton Glaser, 2017 No institution owned that project. It lived because a community decided it mattered enough to show up. What “shareholders”…
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…
The most important figures in American design. Active as an architect, a product and exhibition designer and a writer, he was a leading voice in the discourse on design and architecture over several decades. “The…
Design Better is brought to you by Wix Studio , the most powerful web design platform for entrepreneurs, agencies, and creative thinkers. Learn more → Art, Story, Design, & Film. By James Buckhouse , Design Better…
Just see like, what's, what's going on. Um, I think critique is like, is everything. Yeah. Yeah. I was just, I'll, I'll add two, two quick things. I was just listening to an article about how like colleges, like all…
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…
Years ago, two friends in Philadelphia went looking for a parking lot. They’d been staring at the same six words on the back of their favorite jazz records for years — recorded by Van Gelder in Hackensack , and one…
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…
We’ve been to a lot of conferences over the years. You know the format: a speaker on a stage, a sea of seats, a hallway where the real conversations happen if you’re lucky enough to catch someone before they’re whisked…
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…
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…
Judgment, empathy and understanding of human needs and behaviors, and natural curiosity, are becoming more important than ever. We recently had Brooke Hopper, Senior Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and New…
My creative exploration. It features a stacked plot of radio signals from a pulsar star. Boing Boing has the backstory. The idea of data, space, and digital and analog colliding was the starting point for my design. I…
That.” She has a name for the pattern. “I call them my personal learning loops.” The biggest one took her out of design entirely, and it taught her where influence comes from. It’s not from a title, but from…
For selling their products. We're building a global infrastructure for them to share their knowledge . We guide them on pricing looking at the global market and to how to factor in their time, materials, and studio…
Yes, I’m a Stranger Things nerd. As I mentioned in our recent interview with Stranger Things writer Paul Dichter , I watched the series myself, and then with my daughter when she was old enough, and most recently with…
More than 1 billion people are watching podcasts on YouTube every month . We suspect you’re probably doing the same. So we’re now creating video versions of all new episodes of Design Better. Our recent episode with…
Link correction*: join us here for the AMA: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/181419?utm_source=live-stream-share-button (*we had some tech errors w/ Substack) Few design leaders are as articulate about process…
Sketch from Charles or Ray (the Eames Archive intentionally doesn’t disclose the artist) from a trip abroad. Charles’ proposal letter asking Ray to marry him, even though he’s broke. Polaroids from Charles and Ray’s…
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…
Yesterday I went to a design leaders happy hour in SF, hosted by Kai Hailey (who led the Sprint Leadership Academy at Google when I first met her in 2018), and Peter Merholz (co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs )…
The spaces and structures that we navigate are the way they are by design. They were informed by someone. When given an opportunity, we have to unravel who was actually at the table in informing these constructs and…
Catt Small is a Staff Product Designer at Dropbox, the author of The Staff Designer: Grow, Influence, and Lead as an Individual Contributor (Rosenfeld Media, December 2025), and the host of the Catt’s Corner podcast…
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…
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