This morning I’m excited to introduce you to The Meaning of Maggie, Megan Jean’s Sovern‘s debut novel about eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield, a “girl just trying to survive adolescence armed with after school snacks and deep thoughts.” Megan recently worked with…
Personal projects are sure to appear on many a designer’s New Years Resolutions list—mine included! To ring in 2014, I talked with kickass illustrator Tuesday Bassen about her bevy of side projects: a yay-ladies zine, a small press, and a…
For their New Year’s resolution, The New York Times is launching a beyond ambitious redesign of their future web experience and their first since 2006. Offering a new experience, the requisite press release promises a “cleaner, more engaging user experience”…
Designer Darrin Higgins, known for his work in spaces such as The Noun Project and Fast Company, shared with us his work on another fascinating organization: the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, an international youth orchestra based in Seville, Spain. The orchestra, consisting of musicians…
The Great Discontent is one of my all-time favorite blogs. Each week they feature in-depth interviews with people from creative fields who are doing really inspiring work and living their dreams. More recently they’ve introduced Two Minutes with TDG, a…
Badass Lady Creatives celebrates talented women working in the creative industries. This week, I chat with product designer Jessica Harllee about her work at Kickstarter, hackathons, and embroidered poo. MR: So, you’re currently designing for Kickstarter in New York, by…
Garth Purkett is our new DWL intern! He is going to help me out with all kinds of things behind the scenes, but he will also be lending his voice to the blog. His posts will appear every Thursday and…
This morning I’m incredibly excited to introduce our next contributor to all of you. Please welcome Melanie Richards, an awesome designer who works at one of my favorite studios of the moment—Fuzzco, whose work you’ve seen here many times—and also runs Badass…
For quite awhile, one of the ways I’ve been wanting to improve DWL’s content is to provide more information and inspiration focused on the digital space. So this morning I’m thrilled to introduce you to the creative team of Jackson…
As I mentioned earlier, one of the biggest changes you will see on DWL in the coming weeks is the addition of new writers. So let’s meet the first: Ashley Rutter! Ashley and I (and Brian too) actually went to…