We’re experiencing a massive shift in the ways we think about labor. What are we giving? At what cost? How can we make this exchange more humane, more equitable, more sustainable?
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Animated Illustration by WNW Member ShinYeon Moon
Feeling Stuck? 5 Steps to Create Change in Your Working Life & Not Working Life
If you follow your curiosity, identify your superpowers, define your values, visualize your future, and practice patience through affirmations, I believe with all my soul that you’ll create the change you want to see.
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Five Trends in Creative Recruitment That Will Be With Us in 2022
If you are looking to hire creatives and want them in a physical office, be explicit about the value your company or team has observed from in-person work. Anyone who has worked remotely can point to examples of how they created value from the relative comfort of their own home.
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Illustration by WNW Member Richard A. Chance
No Baby Unicorns: Why You’ll Never Understand a Black Woman’s Decisions If You Don’t Understand Her History
As we admire their performance and follow their trajectories, we root for Black women and call them unicorns. Mythical creatures meant to inspire and delight—that’s the expectation society places on them.
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While Solving the Ad Industry's Biggest Problems, These 6 Leaders Over 50 Are Building a Powerful Case Against Ageism
This list serves as a reminder and proof that, if the industry has advanced in the past decade, much of that advance has been made with the help of 50+ years old advertising leaders who have used their voice to confront the status quo and draw attention to issues that were not yet being discussed as they should.
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Illustration by WNW Member Pierre-Paul Pariseau
How Artists Can Dismantle White Supremacy: Small Strategies for Big Impact
These days, one truth is glaringly obvious: white supremacy is killing our democracy, our people, our economy. And there is something very specific artists can do about it.
Read MoreWhy Black America Floats In Beats by Dre's "You Love Me" Spot
“You Love Me” is an impressive, important, and eye-opening look into what the black experience is like in 2020. It asks questions that could make America and its institutions look away in discomfort, but they’re necessary asks to define the climate that we currently live in.
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Illustration by WNW Member Valéry Lemay
I Got Laid Off. Here's How I Wish My Coworkers Would've Handled It.
“Where were the people who’d stopped by my desk to chat day in and day out? Where were the emails from the editors whose sweetgreen orders I’d memorized and whose weed deliveries I’d accepted? Where was the phone call from my boss who’d always said the New York office was a ‘family’?”
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Illustration by Toma Vagner
Existential Reflections of a Creative in Quarantine
We're living through a global cultural shift, and as we converse and act to foster positive change for many aspects of life, I think it's a good time to also address our relationship to creative work.
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