
What It Took to Design the First Google Santa Tracker
Idealists welcome.
Burrito Pop! The Eight Year Passion Project For Those Who Worship at the Altar of Chipotle.
Over those eight years, creator Madelin Woods obsessed over burritos. In a good way.
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One Man’s Transportation Obsession
Sampo Hietanen wants to redesign how we get from Point A to Point B.
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Wright Thompson Earned It Today
When the Southern storyteller creates, he feels all the feels – passion, obsession, struggle, self-belief. It’s how making something worthwhile should be.
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Designing a Partnership Where the Hopes and Dreams Rhyme
Patrick Godfrey and Scott Dadich discuss their path to partnership that gets stronger by the day.
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The Strange Foundation Gives the Creative Residency an Upgrade.
The shape-shifting entity sparks conversations on how to build a better future. Its new Election Infusions program supports those pouring their energy into turning out the vote.
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LEGO Art Director Morten Bonde Lost His Sight But Sees New Possibilities.
Faced with deteriorating eyesight, Morten Bonde reinvents himself and the way he creates.
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Cat Drew, UK Design Council: We Must Design More Resilient Communities.
Rather than create something new, sometimes it’s more about starting with what’s already there.
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Floyd Norman, Disney’s First Black Illustrator, Creates on His Terms.
Norman helps us take a creative health check during this uncertain time and shares how we can approach making great stuff over years, decades, and lifetimes.
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The “Never Normal” Era Has Begun.
Fjord Design Lead, Nick de la Mare, solves for our new relationship with the physical world. Be prepared, be very prepared.
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Bruce Mau: We Change by Slowly Changing Everything.
Bruce Mau doesn’t do small. He writes manifestos, titles his books Massive Change, and believes design can solve the world’s biggest problems. So we asked: How do we design for a better future?
“Let’s Meet on Mars, and Talk About the Future.”
Catching up with Krys Blackwood, Senior Lead UX Designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to discuss the role of design and creativity in risk-adverse environments, where change can come with a billion-dollar price tag. Read the story >
Why We Should Respect the Complexity of Art as Much as We Do Science.
Let’s reframe the conversation about art and science to acknowledge that both are incredibly complex.
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Sara Little Turnbull: A Creative Force Behind the Design of the N95.
Hers is an underdog success story, from growing up poor in Brooklyn to becoming a trusted behind-the-scenes advisor to executives at Coca-Cola, Revlon, Pfizer, Nissan, and more.
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Escape from Alcatraz: Cracking a Jailbreak Mystery with AI.
Rothko Chief Creative Officer Alan Kelly applies creativity and technology to cold cases.
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Making Peace with Postponement, A Coronavirus Story.
What happens when a card-carrying Type-A person comes down with Coronavirus? Our co-founder, Amanda Tuft, describes how the experience forced her to stop trying to do All The Things, in favor of the things that really matter.
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Follow Your Passion with Adam Davidson, The Artist CEO.
Find out how he launched a company around his love of storytelling.
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