People who love making things:
Side to Full-Time Business: Eleanor Mayrhofer, Founder of e.m.papers
“There is nothing like running your own business to make you ruminate and think deeply on the nature of time, mostly that there isn’t enough of it!” Read more.
Handling Content with Care: Content Strategist Hilary Marsh
“A content strategist is a teacher, cajoler, hand-holder, role model, and curious question-asker.” Read more.
Designing and Teaching: User Experience Architect and Educator Charles Field
“I am addicted to the problem-solving and pace of being a practitioner.” Read more.
Visualizing Information with Clarity and Beauty: Designer Audrée Lapierre
“My design education rhymes with less is more.” Read more.
Keeping Design Just Enough: Mari Sheibley, Lead Designer at foursquare
“There’s a balance to include just enough to make something understandable, and finding that balance is the key.” Read more.
Of Women and Humor: New Yorker Cartoonist and TED Speaker Liza Donnelly
“You have to keep your mind loose, and listen to yourself think.” Read more.
Software Engineer plus Photographer: Ingrid Truemper’s Passion for Problem Solving and Observation
“Women are often detail-oriented, patient, and good communicators: all attributes of an excellent software developer.” Read more.
Indie Zines, Comics and More: Kick-Ass Publisher and Promoter Annie Koyama of Koyama Press
“All of the artists I work with inspire me.” Read more.
Bridging Design and Illustration: Teagan White’s Hands-On Emotion and Meaning
“There are so many beautiful ideas and visual experiences in this world, and in some ways, creating work is a way for me to collect and catalog the best of them …” Read more.
Of Brazil and Painting: Hosana Bezerra’s Artistic Expressions of Geometry
“I use geometric elements to convey my ideas, emotions and visions.” Read more.
Illustrator Laura Barnard’s Urban Tapestry
“I get to draw every day and people pay me money for it!” Read more.
Painter Pete McKee’s Common Touch
“The great thing about the working class and youth culture is that both are very emotive subjects that people feel passionate about.” Read more.
Design Collaborative Quite Strong: Female Creatives in Action
“We are not here to say that women are better or worse but that they are half the population and deserve to share their creative perspective.” Read more.
Digital Media Project Manager Steve Dale on Gaining Time with Getting Things Done
“Being busy to the point of not having the time to stop and think is not conducive to creativity or productivity.” Read more.
Studio Set & Drift’s Designing and Curating of Interactive Experiences
“Navigating the cultural landscape and inviting the unforeseen to carry us to sought-after, uncharted territories.” Read more.
Duane King’s “Thinking for a Living”: Creative Destination for Everyone Passionate about Better
“A network built on friendship, passion, and a dedication to the craft of design.” Read more.
So much to know, so little time: Shane Bzdok’s Design Facts
“The act of passing on knowledge has always been very fulfilling to me.” Read more.
Artist-Maker Nic Webb’s Hand-Carved Objects of Wood and Wanderlust
“Wood is pure, formed by nature and is a versatile and varied material.” Read more.
Having Typographic Heart: Amazing Craftspeople of the Midwest in Film “Typeface”
“Great Characters, both wooden and human.” Read more.
Drawing Comics by Designer, Visual Artist and Aspiring Writer George Starr
“Throughout high school I filled countless spiral notebooks with character designs, spaceships, made-up languages …” Read more.
“In order for everyone to do their best work, they need to feel like they’re on the same page.”
Adriana Baer, Director, Profile Theatre
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