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Tom Foley: Expert typographer on how to pair typefaces and why the best brand fonts go unnoticed
Tom Foley didn’t set out to design typefaces. As a postgraduate student at Central Saint Martins in London, he was researching why Ireland, unlike Switzerland, the Netherlands, or…
How CreativeMornings Helps Design Flourish
Putting your work out there feels riskier than ever, with so much cynicism and judgment online. Tina Roth Eisenberg built CreativeMornings so creatives would have a room full of…
Naivete Was My Best Friend
Not needing much is a superpower early on. Spend an early sale on McDonald's and toys, sleep on the floor, keep the 2007 Corolla. With no idea who's gunning for you, the people…
The Brief: The essential setup for building web apps with AI
A field guide to the elements of modern web apps and how to start building.
Don't Wait for Inspiration. Put Art on a Calendar
No athlete walks onto the field cold and expects magic. Get the pen out, move your hand. Lay down a base color and see what clicks. Break the work into layers that fit on a…
Start With Ideas, Not the Medium
Your go-to tool is quietly choosing your ideas. If a painting tells the story better than a sculpture, make the painting. If five paintings beat an animation, paint five. Let the…
Trenton Doyle Hancock: From Chaos to Order
Before you tidy your desk, find out which part of the mess is pulling its weight. Trenton Doyle Hancock trains his assistant not to throw anything away, lets found objects seep…
Kevin Flores: Find Your Inner Rebel
Episode 195 of the Design Better Podcast
Why the Tool You Know Best Is Choosing Your Ideas
If your work keeps coming out looking like the last thing you made, the tool you know best is choosing your ideas for you. Trenton Doyle Hancock was in the Whitney Biennial at 26…
The Design Teams Weren't the Difference
Great cultures aren't great because they contain the thing. They're great because they value it. Walk into a company where design works and you can feel it in the people who…
How Milton Glaser set design quality standards
Lessons from a conversation with Randy Hunt, former head of design at Notion and Etsy.
You Can't Convince Them
Nobody was required to join. That's exactly why teams lined up. Make your change something people choose, then cap how many can. Seven teams got in the first year, sixty or…
Randy Hunt: Notion and Etsy design leader on why the best design teams stay small
Episode 194 of the Design Better Podcast
Thou Shalt Change
Nobody owes your change a yes. Mandates make people dig in, so treat the change like a product nobody has to buy. Deliver it so well the team wants it. If they refuse, that's on…
The Formula for a Design Team That Runs Without You
The way you work is probably locked in your own head, which means it stops when you do. Asked for his formula, Phil Gilbert had to turn instinct into something other people could…
Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
Episode 193 of the Design Better Podcast
How to Get a Yes From People Who Keep Killing Your Designs
When it comes to a design, you can build the case, bring the research, and still watch a good idea stall. Nobody at work owes your idea a yes. Phil Gilbert, former General Manager…
The Roundup: How to defeat jargon, win over a pushy PM, and fix the collaboration gap
What we learned from Blain Billingsley, staff designer at OpenAI
1950s Designers Using Type as Art: The Creativity Behind the Jazz Covers of Prestige Records
When Designers Collaborate
A designer chalked the album's lineup on the side of a railroad boxcar. He wasn't a photographer yet, so another designer took the shot. Your best work might need a skill you…
The Limits Are What Make the Project
So much is at your fingertips now. That's the problem. The constraint you're fighting often sets your work apart. Every Prestige Records designer asked the same question: what can…
Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
Episode 192 of the Design Better Podcast
The Type Was the Art
Your type probably goes on last. One self-taught designer stayed up until two or three in the morning with type foundry catalogs, figuring out how it was done. Choose, color, and…
The Brief: 7 Principles for better AI collaboration
Principles and a downloadable kit for anyone who wants to work more efficiently with AI collaborators.
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