Creative Process

The Roundup: Aaron Draplin on building a personal brand

How to find ideas and inspiration where no one else is looking.

Jul 10 • Aarron Walter

The Roundup: The Cambrian Filter

Three things we learned about which tools — and ways of working — will survive

Jun 19 • Eli Woolery

Paul Ford: Writer, developer & "fun Cassandra" on why everything is changing (but not how you think)

Episode 179 of the Design Better Podcast

Jun 3 • Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter

46:53

The Roundup: Living a double life

Lessons we learned from Mason Currey, author of Making Art While Making a Living

May 8 • Eli Woolery

Mason Currey: Author of Daily Rituals on Making Art and Making a Living

Episode 175 of the Design Better Podcast

May 6 • Eli Woolery, Aarron Walter, and Mason Currey

41:37

AMA: Bob Baxley

What Apple taught me about design—and what it didn't

Apr 25 • Aarron Walter

The Roundup: Creative teams need skeptics, sitting with the note you hate, and knowing when to break the rules

Things we learned from Stranger Things writer Paul Dichter

Apr 24 • Eli Woolery

Paul Dichter: Stranger Things writer on why the writers’ room isn’t so different from the design studio

Episode 173 of the Design Better Podcast

Apr 22 • Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter

55:33

The Roundup: Creative friction, the value of personal projects, and do it well, or don't do it

Lessons learned from our chat with designer turned illustrator Luis Mendo

Apr 10 • Eli Woolery

Luis Mendo: Designer turned illustrator on making things that could only come from you

Episode 171 of the Design Better Podcast

Apr 8 • Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter

51:56

The Roundup: Making real things in an unreal world

It’s difficult to escape the fact that we live in a very turbulent time.

Mar 28 • Eli Woolery

The Roundup: Specialists Are the Most Exposed to AI. Here's What to Do About It.

Our world doesn’t quite know what to do with multidisciplinary thinkers.

Mar 20 • Aarron Walter

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