Animated illustration by Emily Parsons
Matt Welch, a program director at Wolff Olins, started his career as a page designer and copy editor at The New York Times Company. See how his time in journalism along with a healthy dose of determination and curiosity led to an unexpected––yet informed––pivot to his current position in advertising.
Read MoreSai shares how working in advertising is a true calling even if the industry is often an easy target, how Dong Draper has opened up doors to interviews at dream agencies and meetings with heavyweights, and why he wants to deliver brave work that serves an actual purpose.
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In this episode, you will learn to assess and repurpose your skills in new ways for people who may need them. And you’ll learn ways to be proactive when work starts getting slow.
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WNW Member Jon Burgerman
Jon Burgerman led the WNW community in an hour-long virtual doodling class. Participants joined the video call, armed with paper, pens, pencils, paint, and many more tools that don’t only start with the letter “P.” We could go on about how great this was, but instead, we’ll let the work speak for itself.
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“I think freelance life has shifted my focus from doing what I love to worrying too much about money and business. That makes me feel like something is not working. I want to be excited about what I do again.”
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As I work on my plan for the next five years I'm craving an expansion while holding onto my mastery. How do I expand to take on a bigger creative role, while keeping the market's trust in what I do very well?
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Booking Escapes Prototype for Booking.com by WNW Member Brandon Burns
See the exact, step-by-step process you can take to search through the WNW database, connect with and follow UX designers whose work you love, and create a short job post to attract UX designers.
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Illustration by WNW Member Miriam Persand
The inner workings of the large companies that hire me, an independent artist, are a mystery…I reached out to an anonymous art director friend at a large corporation to gain clarity. We discussed the mood boarding process for a global campaign, where things go awry, and when a company decides to make pre-emptive restitution.
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Our creative community wrote down more than 4,000 names. Here are the fifty agencies, brands, publications, services, stations, studios, tech giants, and more that made the cut, ranked in order.
Read MoreIn this piece, we cover common knowledge gaps of film editing, the qualifications and skills that all great film editors have, what editors cost, and what a great editing portfolio looks like.
Read MoreIn this post, we explore 12 product design case studies and discuss how to come away with meaningful answers to all of your questions about product designers.
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The New York-based illustrator not only combines hyper-realism and incredible attention to detail with playfully imaginative concepts for clients like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nike, and Facebook—he did so for two different projects on this magazine you’re reading right now.
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Is it necessary to post on social media daily? Will we lose work if we’re not sharing like everyone else? How can I get rid of my anxiety and have a more reasonable approach to all of this?
Read MoreIf you want to write a motion graphic designer job description, browse portfolios, or write cold emails to talented designers, this post has everything you need to get started.
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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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When approached with the opportunity to design Some Light at the End, a book about hospice and end-of-life care, Heather-Mariah couldn’t resist the challenge to take on something new. Death itself is nothing new, but the practical implications from a design perspective were also strangely enlivening.
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We're hosting a two-day pop-up coworking space from October 1st to 2nd for our creative and hiring community in East London, designed to unite the WNW network and give you the chance to change up your workday routine.
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