Started by the folks at GrandArmy and A24 with support from Dropbox, Supercluster launched last summer on the precipice of a new golden age of space exploration. What’s a creative agency like GrandArmy doing in the space news race? What they’re best at.
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The Collected Works Overhauled Their Portfolio Site. Here’s What They Learned in the Process.
New York-based studio The Collected Works recently overhauled their portfolio site, and it’s a statement piece in itself, worthy of the same attention as any creative project that it houses. So we talked to founders Justin Colt and Jose Fresneda to pick their brain on some of the do’s and don’t’s that frame how The Collected Works presents itself.
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15 Top Freelancers Who’ve Lent Their Talents to the Nike Creative Team
How Alex Center, Former Design Director at Coca-Cola, Gets Amazing Work from His New Creative Team
In our conversation, Alex Center shared the specific strategies he uses to ensure his CENTER team is able to produce their best work, along with where he finds new creative talent for projects.
Read MoreWhat the Best UX Designer Portfolios Have in Common (Including 10+ Examples)
We discuss five qualities that the best UX designer portfolios share, along with several portfolio examples for each one. If you’re looking to hire a UX designer for your next project, use this post to help you find the right designer for your team.
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Illustration by WNW Member Yifan Wu
Taking Ownership Over How Your Designs Are Implemented: The Underrated Art of Following Through
“One quality I always look for when interviewing designers is the ability to get their concepts implemented in the final product as envisioned during the design phase. Basically, I want to know: did your ideas actually ship? I’ve noticed that designers who succeed share certain underlying skills and approaches.”
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Get to Know the Playful Yet Sophisticated Work of Creative Studio Butter
Cari Sekendur shares why it was time to open her own studio, how Butter determines which projects to take on, whether her approach has changed from her days as a freelancer, and the biggest challenges and surprised in building a studio.
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Public Library On Constructing the Visual Landscape for Local Natives' Album "Violet Street"
“There is so much heart, pain, and joy that the artists go through to create these records; we owe it to them to deliver a pure expression that holds up to what they have spent years agonizing over. Being able to translate what they hear in their heads to what they see on the cover is such an incredible undertaking, and results in a lot of our favorite work.”
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It's Officially July. Which Corporations Will Still Give a Shit About Pride?
“Companies paint their logos rainbow across Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for a month—boasting about how accepting they are and sauntering through Pride parades catapulting rainbow-logoed koozies, t-shirts, and all kinds of unnecessarily branded crap into crowds of bystanders. Then as soon as they appeared, they disappear. Complete radio silence for the other 11 months of the year.”
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This Project Showcases 25 New York LGBTQIA+ Artists on LinkNYC Screens
WNW Members Ben Wagner and Isabel Castillo Guijarro teamed up to curate 25 New York-based LGBTQIA+ designers, illustrators, and artists to feature on LinkNYC screens throughout the month of June. The list includes some real heavy-hitters, many of whom are WNW members.
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“Genius Loci” Sees Artist Marina Esmeraldo Traveling Through Her Memory
“The goal was capturing the essence of my travels, wanderlust being a recurring theme in my work. Through the abstract interpretation of the places of my memories, I created an installation combining mural painting and relief works, as well as a collection of wooden sculptures.”
Read MoreDesigners Ada Sokol & Alice Isaac Talk Creative Approaches, Advice, & Excitement for Us By Night
We’re excited to be partnering with Us By Night for the second consecutive year. The Antwerp-based design festival has already announced some of the lineup for this September’s festival, which has created a significant amount of hype 5 months out. We caught up with two speakers on the lineup, Ada Sokol and Alice Isaac, to discuss their creative approaches, favorite projects, advice for creatives, and why they’re excited to take part in Us By Night this year.
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Jessica Severn on Ariana Grande, Scooter Braun, and the World of Design in Music & Entertainment
The art director & lead designer at Scooter Braun’s SB Projects talsk about different approaches working on Ariana Grande’s past albums versus her latest, thank u, next, and what her primary goal is in visualizing the singular message of an artist’s music.
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IWD2019: Deva Pardue Discusses the Allure of Design, The Wing, & For All Womankind
Deva Pardue discusses the allure of design, the project she’s proudest of (an accomplishment both creatively and morally) and her ultimate goal: “My dream project is to design the brand identity for a political campaign!”
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Members to Watch: Best of February
Here are just five projects from Working Not Working Members that caught our eye this February.
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Members to Watch: Best of January
Here are seven projects from Working Not Working Members that caught our eye this January.
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How to Create a Brand Identity that Sets the Mood for an Erotica Audio App
“We were excited to take on a project made by women for women with such a provocative message, and knew that the branding had the potential to be as modern, refreshing and sexy as the platform’s content. Plus, we were excited by the fact that we hadn't seen anything like this out there.”
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Working Not Working’s 11 Highlights from This Year’s Us By Night Festival
The nights were jam-packed with talks, experiences, great food and drinks, and even better international company. We reconnected with plenty of OG Members, met many new members for the first time, and were introduced to future members. Check out Working Not Working’s top highlights from this year’s Us By Night Festival.
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It’s Nice That Is Celebrating 100 Years of the Bauhaus in Printed Pages AW18
In the latest installment of Printed Pages, It’s Nice That’s biannual publication, the London-based in-house team have made it their mission to celebrate creativity at work all over the world… and in the past 100 years. Front and center is a feature on the Bauhaus school and its century-old legacy, honored and unpacked alongside Pentagram partner Sascha Lobe.
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