Jeff shares how he has sustained success over two decades in the game and avoided becoming just another trend. He also divulges his somewhat questionable and illicit use of rollerblades to get accepted into Parsons.
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Tim & Ron
Let Love Reign is a Testament to the Real-Life Obstacles of Unbridled Love
Catalina Kulczar and Luke Williams discuss why Let Love Reign is important to each of them, the pressures to deliver a final product that honors the stories told within, and what they learned about each other through this collaborative process. The passion and urgency that both of them have brought to every creative decision is truly inspiring and embodies what it means to use your creativity for good.
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How Us By Night is Upending Design Conference Conventions
Us By Night is the insomniac brain child of Rizon Parein, a Belgian designer and illustrator. We find out what to expect in the event’s third year and why the night time is the right time for a bunch of creatives to gather within a spacious LED-walled venue for talks, live art, interactive installations, games, and mingling.
Read MoreWorking Not Working Partners with Skillshare
We've partnered up with Skillshare, the online learning community with over 5 million members and thousands of classes in the creative industry, to host a 3-week long workshop exclusively for Graphic Designers. The focus is on building an online presence and getting more work opportunities.
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How Turning to the Physical World Can Yield Unique Digital Outcomes
We usually try to find inspiration from other professionals. It's probably the most convenient source, but too often leads us to an infinite loop. Looking at the work of other professionals from totally different fields could be a better approach and lead us to more unique outcomes.
Read MoreThese Creatives Are Courting the King to Come to Their City
Where will LeBron go? It's a question that plenty of people don't give two shits about, but one that ESPN and "Le King" himself want you to wonder. ESPN sourced 30 artists to create billboards pitching LeBron on their hometown NBA team. So it's not just creative—it's personal.
Read MoreDrinking Not Drinking Chicago: Recap
Hosted at Villains in collaboration with Southbank, our global happy hour series felt right at home. It was the ideal venue and vibe for authentic networking in the Windy City. Everyone enjoyed meeting fellow members and sampling the snacks and signature Old Fashioneds. Thanks to WNW Member Alex Garcia for taking professional portraits for attendants' WNW profiles and portfolio sites.
Read MoreBeer Mats Toasting Weird World Cup Moments for Charity
Twenty leading designers, illustrators, and creatives celebrated their favourite hilarious, weird, & wonderful moments from previous World Cups. The resulting pieces have been printed onto limited edition beer mats & are being ‘exhibited’ in pubs around London right in time for the World Cup.
Read MoreJoin WNW & Designer Zipeng Zhu in Supporting This Year's AIDS/LifeCycle
WNW Co-founder Adam Tompkins had the idea to produce a WNW-sponsored kit for Thomas Q. Sims’ AIDS/LifeCycle ride with one of our members, & immediately thought of the inimitable Zipeng Zhu.
Read MoreThe Great New York Subway Map Introduces Young Readers to Graphic Design
What WNW Member Emiliano Ponzi and MoMA have created is not just a picture book but a reminder of the educational benefits of understanding how your surroundings work from a young age, and recognizing the humanity behind design decisions.
Read MoreFeeling Chaotic? Embrace the Calming Effects of Things Organized Neatly
Things Organized Neatly is a "collection of collections" that calms the viewer with even spacing, color coordination, arrangement by size, and every other requirement for soothing the obsessive. Austin shares what draws him to organization both happenstance and intentional.
Read MoreMeet the Freelance Team Pushing Tribeca Film Festival Forward
This year, there will be a bunch of firsts at the Tribeca Film Festival. That's the nature of putting together a lineup of thought-provoking films. But this year also sees a first for Tribeca's entire marketing campaign, as the festival decided to bring in a freelance creative team. Meet them here.
Read MorePablo Rochat's Instagram Hacks Are Works of Postmodern Art
Pablo's Instagram hacks, pranks, and disruptions are easily digestible in this age of ADHD, and easily releasable. Pablo also discusses the craft of using Instagram's guardrails to his advantage, whether he takes his pranking spirit offline, and what it's like to get paid by major brands to cause some 24-hour mayhem.
Read MoreWhat It Takes to Work at Work & Co: Meet Co-Founder Joe Stewart
Work & Co's Founder and Design Partner Joe Stewart tells us how Work & Co was born from wanting to get his design hands dirty again, and the internal trust that exists with having agency leadership learning and building alongside you. Joe also offers great advice on what it takes to work there, as well as what he looks for in prospective hires and their creative portfolios.
Read MoreOvershare Podcast: Gemma O'Brien
For our 9th episode, WNW co-founder Justin Gignac sits down with Gemma O'Brien, an Australian artist and designer specialising in lettering, illustration, and typography.
Read MoreBobby McKenna Enlists Elite Artist Lineup For Steven Soderbergh's Interactive HBO Series
As McKenna puts it, "I saw Mosaic as an opportunity to collaborate with talented artists [with] a wide range of styles. I figured an email with 'Steven Soderbergh project' in the subject line would be pretty difficult to resist, so I aimed high with my proposed artist lineup."
Read MoreWNW Is Teaming Up With General Assembly for "Design For Good" Talks
We’ve invited three speakers from our creative community to share their work on human responses, and how our mental health and the way we live intersect with design.
Joining us for the evening will be creative studio Builders Club, artist and founder of Notes To Strangers Andy Leek, and animation storytellers Wednesday Studio.
Read MorePaul Benson's Emmy-Winning Studio Sets Are Our Dream Offices
Paul Benson creates dreamscape studio sets for the likes of NBC, CNN, and ESPN. You've probably witnessed his stunning PyeongChang Olympic studio set. Or maybe his Emmy-winning work on 2016's Rio Games. WNW HQ wishes it could operate out of any of his sets.
Read MoreNeed an Inspirational Escape & Creative Recharge? Meet FITC Amsterdam 2018
FITC is returning to Amsterdam to host the groundbreaking design and tech event on the future of innovation, design, and all the cool shit in between. We talk to Founding Director Shawn Pucknell to learn what lead him to launch FITC, how the FITC team selects speakers, and more.
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