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Kaile Smith, cognitive scientist and creative director, finally put a name to something she’d always experienced: the creative hangover. Here, she shares how to kick it.
Jeff Hammoud, Chief Design Officer at Rivian, loves cars so much that he works on them seven days a week. Here, he shares his lessons in leadership.
As VP and Head of Product Design at the NBA, Lawson shapes the look and feel of the league’s entire digital ecosystem. Here, she shares how she leads at one of the most iconic brands in sports.
In our Executive Ranks series, we ask our interview subjects to share their lessons in leadership. Here, Downtown Music Publishing’s Jedd Katrancha shares how he creates a work culture where, when the work hits just right, he can hear rain.
Twenty years after leading the branding for the 2006 Torino Olympics, Raffaella Paniè got the call to do it all again for the Milano Cortina Games this winter. Here’s how she did it.
Photographer Charles Brooks uses medical probe lenses to photograph the hidden worlds inside instruments. Here, he shares the lengths he goes to in order to get these shots.
The MetroCard may no longer be in use, but its legacy lives on in the works of Juan Carlos Pinto, a Brooklyn-based artist whose material is the recycled MTA card.
For many creative people, data still feels cold, corporate, and faintly accusatory. But Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi and brand strategist Phillip Cox don’t see data that way at all.
From Hamilton to… so many other works, Lin-Manuel Miranda uses art to tell stories that resonate across generations. Here are some of his most resonant insights.
From dancer to acclaimed cinematographer, Claudia Raschke, ASC, has captured the stories of cultural icons like RBG, Julia Child, Pauli Murray, and Anthony Fauci.
In our Executive Ranks series, we ask our interview subjects to share their lessons in leadership. Here, LEGO Director of Creative Innovation Rudi Anggono shares the tools and tactics he uses to lead at the highest level.
Experiential designer Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian believes in making science more democratic, no matter how extreme the fieldwork.
Marion Deuchars is an award-winning artist and best-selling author who follows one rule in her creative work: play. In this interview, she shares how.
In our Executive Ranks series, we ask our interview subjects to share their lessons in leadership. For the first one, Gensler’s Ann Morrow Johnson dives into the tools and tactics she uses to guide and mentor global teams.
Kathryn Molenaar shares why you have to quit to move up, what it took to pull off The Summer I Turned Pretty, and how she makes a living by building and blowing things up.
With a boatload of persistence and a drive to make great stuff, music producer and songwriter Sam Hollander has struck chart gold. Here’s how he did it.
He is most famous for his vacuum design, but it is his wildly imaginative outlook on the world that is the most inspiring.
Step inside Stick with Me Sweets in Soho and you might mistake it for a jewel-box art gallery, at least until the scent of cocoa gives you away. Susanna Yoon, founder and head chocolatier, shares how she blends the rigor of a Michelin-starred kitchen with the imagination of an artist.
How Hector leads his team, why joy and creativity are strategic levers, and how making things with pencils, pixels, and AI gives him meaning.
Double Chicken Please is one of America’s most famous cocktail bars, and it started out as a mobile bar in the back of founder GN Chan’s 1977 camper. Here, he shares what it took to create cocktails that are about more than just drinking.
Leopoldo Gout is relentlessly curious, creative, and overly generous. And he tells himself stories in order to live. Here, he shares why he moves between disciplines, how he works with memory, and what he does when he finds a good story.
Here, artist and court illustrator Isabelle Brourman shares how she structures her workdays around New York’s high-profile court cases.
Suff Syed, the Head of Design, at Microsoft Research, shares how he has always marched to the beat of his own drum in his career and creative thinking.
From his home base in London, James Cook has “typed” everything from a picture of London’s Royal Albert Hall to its Battersea Power Station. Here, he shares what he sees when he looks at a keyboard, and how that transforms into artwork quite like nothing else.
To stand you, you have to do what no one else is doing. Sounds simple, but it ain’t easy.
Russ Moore and Allison Hopelain are partners in business, as well as in life. It is in this way that they can do everything a little differently from the rest of us.
For Perry, drawing isn’t just an art form – it’s a language he’s been learning, stretching, and reinventing since childhood. Here is how he brings his big idea to life on the page.
Ashley Barnhill was a rising star in comedy when a freak accident nearly ended her life. Now she’s rewriting her story—with dark jokes, sci-fi twists, and steel in her skull.
