Illustration by Allison Filice
“I encourage you to journey inward this winter. Set a course for what you want this year before the hustle and bustle takes you for a ride of its own. Spend some time alone journaling, reading, listening to music, or meditating.”
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Here's a mixtape that's almost as much fun to say aloud as it is to listen to. Featuring perhaps one of the most overused yet still somehow under-appreciated instruments, Synth You've Been Gone finds WNW Member #5187 Nick Ceglia weeding through a dark world of bad synthesizer sounds and resurfacing with 14 gems. The party's capped off with "Sound and Vision" by the late David Bowie, who may be late but will always remain fashionable.
We also caught up with Nick to see what life is like as a full-timer on the creative team at Chipotle. Direct all "burrito buck" questions to him; we can't help you.
You can open the mixtape in Spotify here.
I’m a photographer turned graphic designer turned copywriter, and I now write about burritos for a living. Been a curvy road to where I’m at, but I’m happy to have a background in a few areas.
It’s great—super fun to write for. We have a small creative team with very talented designers, and the company as a whole really values creativity and good design. And yes, plenty of tasty discounts. See me for some burrito bucks.
The first cover I discovered was a French-English dictionary. I originally bought it for the jacket design and I didn’t find the design underneath it for a while. I think that was the most unexpected because they’re both great covers. It got me psyched and I started thinking about how many others I missed.
Quite a bit. My playlist is a good synth-themed mix of what I’m into. There’s some indie stuff, Talking Heads, Devo, and I got to fit in a Paul McCartney jam that’s pretty bizarre. Also looking forward to the impending Wolf Parade reunion.
I’m currently working on what our packaging will be after our Cultivating Thought series comes to a close, which is pretty exciting.
I think it’s good to try and not get bummed on small projects. Especially when you work in-house, you don’t always get sexy projects and a lot of it is working on the little aspects that make the brand what it is. If you can find a way to make a bathroom sign or some receipt tape funny, it can be pretty rewarding.
This edition of WNW Mixtape is curated by WNW Member #3189 Nitzan Hermon, a New York-based designer who has some really exciting projects rooted in music, like this. And this. He's also a former DJ. We asked Nitzan about the mixtape he curated for us: "This is all music I feel passionately about, and continuously play." His mixtape features EDM, Hip-Hop, and Folk, all under the radar, over our heads, and so in the zone. Take the first song "Adventures in Success": it's performed by Will Powers, better known as celebrity photographer and selfie-stick inventor Lynn Goldsmith employing a pitch-shifter. As Nitzan puts it, "Everything Will Happen."
You can open the mixtape in Spotify here.
Originally from Israel, I have lived in London most of my 20s before moving to New York. Traditionally I have worked in–house for media and technology companies, but started my own practice almost 2 years ago. Since then I have the good fortune of being part of New INC, the New Museum incubator -- where I focus on self-initiated work and client projects.
Thank you very much. That’s a tough list to put together, as it often changes. Here are some records I had out when answering this.
95%, I am useless without it.
Informed and thorough -- definitely research driven.
I'm writing about designing for AI, and working with a start up in Bushwick on their product, UX and brand.
Work hard, read a lot and never stop researching.
Illustration by Vero Escalante
We hope you all had a great holiday weekend. We're serving a mixtape for you to feast on while you eat leftovers for the next two weeks. These tracks are sent from creatives' studio speakers to your ears. They're tracks that WNW creatives love to put on to add fuel to their creativity. Big thanks to WNW Member Vero Escalante for filling up Side B.
You can open the Spotify playlist here.
Illustration by Mike Hirshon
As autumn gets underway in the Northern Hemisphere, WNW HQ has put together a mixtape of songs that our members are currently playing on repeat to fuel their creativity. Give this a spin, wherever you are; it may just give you some inspiration, or at least give your ears a good buzz. This week's edition pairs nicely with some hard cider and warm apple pie.
You can open the Spotify playlist here.
Image by WNW Member #2782 Shane Griffin
WNW members often generate their most stunning work by getting into a creative rhythm, at the most random hours of the day. Naturally, many of them accomplish this through music. WNW HQ has put together a mixtape built by a group of WNW members who each picked a song that fuels their creativity. Give this a spin, wherever you are; it just might help you finish off the week strong, with a cymbal crash, trumpet solo, or even a groovy falsetto. It's all here.