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Designing for Mistakes: A Fix for Where Social Media Goes Off the Rails
Amanda Tuft 1/25/21 Amanda Tuft 1/25/21

Designing for Mistakes: A Fix for Where Social Media Goes Off the Rails

Designers Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie discuss how we healthier conversations online. (Among other things, it involves borrowing an idea from Tumblr.0

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Good Work Isn’t Cheap: How to Reset Expectations About Creative Value
Matt McCue 1/19/21 Matt McCue 1/19/21

Good Work Isn’t Cheap: How to Reset Expectations About Creative Value

Artist Jon Burgerman shares how he responds to those who assume creative work is free work, and how we can reset expectations about the value of what we do.

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Covid-Influenced Ingenuity: NYC Restaurateur Designs Sidewalk Chalets
Matt McCue 1/13/21 Matt McCue 1/13/21

Covid-Influenced Ingenuity: NYC Restaurateur Designs Sidewalk Chalets

Busting through bureaucracy to redesign the restaurant dining experience amid Covid-19.

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How to Cultivate a Culture Where Creative Freedom Rules
Matt McCue 1/7/21 Matt McCue 1/7/21

How to Cultivate a Culture Where Creative Freedom Rules

Repeat after me: Look at how your job had always been done, smash that model to pieces, and rebuild it in better, smarter ways.

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No Blueprint, No Problem: Redefining the Speech Therapy Experience
Matt McCue 1/6/21 Matt McCue 1/6/21

No Blueprint, No Problem: Redefining the Speech Therapy Experience

Alan Kelly, Chief Creative Officer of Rothco, and speech and language therapist Anna Biavati-Smith, share how they collaborated on Saylists.

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Ksenya Samarskaya: Moving Type Out of Advertising and Graphic Design and Into a Bigger Cultural Conversation
Matt McCue 1/1/21 Matt McCue 1/1/21

Ksenya Samarskaya: Moving Type Out of Advertising and Graphic Design and Into a Bigger Cultural Conversation

“I want it to be sitting on the shelf alongside language, alongside fashion,” says Samarskaya. “Typography is an incredible vessel to talk about much broader issues: culture, history, regionality, authority, autonomy, self-expression.” 

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