The creative industry is on its own collective journey to self-discovery, much like the students preparing to enter it: learning to trust in creativity, daring to pivot, pushing past pain points, and reaching for full creative potential.

During AAPI Heritage Month, Working Not Working launched an ongoing partnership with the Asian Creative Foundation, an organization and advocate for AAPI talent.

To show our appreciation for the incredible work that talent hirers do, Working Not Working presents “We Love Recruiters,” a love song and rallying cry for the unsung heroes of the creative industry.

Founder Ritesh Gupta offers a quick course on where design education has fallen short, how he’s building Useful School’s curriculum with his own experiences and peer review, and why a recalibration of design education will have a lasting impact on the design industry.

For longstanding WNW Member Ritesh Gupta, there’s a practical way to address educational deficiencies in design. Well, there wasn’t. So he built it. It’s called Useful School, the world’s first pay-what-you-can online design school for people of color.

We’re calling on all you freelancers, small studios, and creatives with passion projects to submit your work, projects, and campaigns to ADC's 101st Annual Awards.

We surveyed 800 advertising creatives in the Working Not Working community to see how they feel about their current jobs, the industry they’ve called home, and whether they see a future in it. From their responses, we now have a clear understanding of what will push advertising creatives to sell their stock in this lifestyle and what will motivate them to buy into the future of advertising.

We are honored to present this award to New York-based film editor Mah Ferraz. We invite you to get to know the Brazilian creative whose confidence, craft, vision, and voice were built on the decision to go freelance, making her new title of “Freelancer of the Year” a seamless fit.

Working Not Working Co-Founder and CCO Adam Tompkins led a pivotal conversation with three creative recruiters, who offered their unique perspectives and expertise to answer a question racing through the minds of so many creatives: where are we now?

In our newest installment of Work With, a film series that introduces you to the creatives behind the work, we sit down with the singular CCO & Co-Founder, who reflects on the role of design, pioneering a new career trajectory, and the duality of a creative life.

The role was beyond just having the necessary skills to pull off a great product: the ideal candidate had to be ready to deliver quickly and come at the project aligned with the mission. “I needed someone who was impact-driven and had real design chops.” After resource research, Aaron concluded, “the only real solution was Working Not Working.”

Meet Repping Not Repping, the latest service from WNW. It’s an on-demand, a la carte career management service for Animators and Illustrators. Here when you need it. Standing by when you don’t.

"I think I'm blessed as being totally naive in life. I'm very optimistic." Optimism can feel like a finite resource these days, and the positivity, peacefulness, and sense of belonging that imbues simoneone's work is a refreshing breath. Work with simoneone.