Mark Brickey is the co-host of America’s favorite design gossip podcast Adventures In Design. During the day Brickey can be found designing, illustrating or printmaking alongside his wife Beth, as co-owner of Hero Design Studio located in sunny Long Beach,… Read More ›

As a New York native, Jon Contino has been under the influence of corporate mass marketing and inspirational street art since his first breath. Not surprisingly, he has garnered considerable attention for his unique approach to design utilizing hand-drawn lettering… Read More ›

Jacqui Oakley was born and currently lives in Canada, but spent her formative years watching BBC reruns and animé in Bahrain, England, Zambia, and Libya. Her illustration work has included editorial, advertising, and book projects for clients like The New… Read More ›

Brandon Rike is a freelance graphic designer specializing in the music apparel industry. With over a decade in the business, designing merchandise for everyone from Slipknot to The Beatles to Mumford and Sons, Rike has become one of the top… Read More ›

Valerie Mayen’s journey into fashion began when she was born into a Guatemalan household in Corpus Christi, Texas. Turning hand-me-downs into coveted fashions as a child, she would find herself trekking all over the continent to get her undergraduate degree… Read More ›

Kristy Tillman is a communication designer at international design firm IDEO in Boston. In her role, she has worked across a variety of industries to translate complex ideas and evolve the understanding of graphic and information design over both printed… Read More ›

Nick is an interaction designer and publisher from Chicago. He’s probably most known for writing Cadence & Slang, a very small book about interaction design; and for publishing Distance, a quarterly journal for long-form essays about design and technology. He… Read More ›

Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website and for The Columbia Journalism Review. The former executive editor of GOOD magazine, she and her colleagues produced Tomorrow, a crowd-funded narrative publication, after they were fired en masse. She… Read More ›

Alonzo Felix is an art director, illustrator, and type designer living in vibrant Brooklyn, New York. After earning a BFA in graphic design, he studied typographic application and theory in London, and also earned a postgraduate certificate in typeface design… Read More ›

Kern and Burn is an online and print publication by Jessica Karle Heltzel and Tim Hoover that curates discussions, interviews and essays. We invite design entrepreneurs—those who pursue self-initiated projects, think for themselves, and channel personal passions into self-made careers—to… Read More ›

San Francisco fine artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful paintings and collages. Her vast catalog of work includes illustrations for Chronicle Books, Harper Collins Publishing, and Simon and Schuster, among others. Lisa is also known… Read More ›

The Pressure is the studio of creative director, designer and illustrator Adam R. Garcia. After attending the Minneapolis College of Art & Design he worked in the record industry, at branding agencies, at Nike Sportswear designing footwear and most recently… Read More ›

Feeling burnt out by client work just one year after graduation, they spent a frigid Ohio winter creating the modern map of their dreams. To their surprise, the poster sold out instantly, launching their new careers as Professional Amateur Cartographers… Read More ›

Stewart is an Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator from Glasgow, Scotland who is currently based in Atlanta. He lives with his wife and 4 year old daughter. He is currently Art Director for CNN Digital. Previous experience includes stints… Read More ›

Rena Tom is a strategist for creative business owners. She assists makers, buyer and sellers with the intricacies of small-batch manufacturing and boutique retail. She also loves to connect people and encourage them to work on awesome projects, which led… Read More ›

After battling cancer throughout his twenties, Troy created Strong Odors to share his story through both writing and illustration. Through he’s discovered that many others identify with his struggle in some way and also take great pleasure or pride (or… Read More ›

I own Busy Beaver Button Company. We make pin-back buttons for loads of great great people and share their ideas.

John Jennings is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research and teaching focus on the analysis, explication, and disruption of African American stereotypes in popular visual media. His research is… Read More ›

In the ad business, the ability to have a big idea is vital. However, it means very little if you can’t successfully explain it to your creative partners-in-crime and work collaboratively to turn your brainchild into something even more amazing… Read More ›

I’ve worked as a designer, photographer, educator, and veterinary technician. I’m technically an award-winning filmmaker, but I have a hard time saying so with a straight face. I’m more attached to Illustrator than a person should be to a piece… Read More ›

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