Enjoy a collection of written articles, resources, interviews and features made to help you navigate design
Insight: Five top tips I wish I knew when starting a design studio
Hondo is a dynamic design practice that creates purposeful and impactful experiences, collaborating with like-minded clients across the world. To help our community navigate their career we decided to ask Fran Méndez for the top five tips he needed to know when starting a studio.
Resources: Refresh your bookcase with these beautiful design books from Thames Hudson
Every good studio bookcase should be loaded with printed references helping guide the creative process but it can be difficult to find something fresh so we have been busy searching the Thames Hudson archive so that you can quickly find your latest source of inspiration.
Workshops: Behind the processes used when refreshing one of designs most respected businesses
Earlier this year GF Smith released their new brand identity and it was immediately met with a mixture of emotions leading us to reach out to the team at Templo. We believe in exploring te processes of a project before passing judgement so when Pali Palavathanan agreed to provide context we knew it was going to be one of our strongest workshops to date.
Insight: Pay as you go or subscribe annually, what are the benefits?
Higher education no longer offers designers value. Degrees don’t hold the weight they used to and the knowledge shared during the learning process is largely irrelevant, a radical alternative has never been needed more. Our aim is to provide people at every stage of their journey with the tool needed to move forward with energy and excitement.
Interview: Exploring business, culture and leadership with Ashleigh Hansberger and Sunny Bonnell
As part of our commitment to elevate creative voices we are speaking to members to our community. We will be celebrating their work and sharing their story because we think it’s important to champion the people that make our sector so damn good! In this edition we are joined by the co–founders of Motto, Ashleigh Hansberger and Sunny Bonnell.
Interview: Creative director and design mentor, Debora Saveriano
As part of our commitment to elevate creative voices we are speaking to members to our community. We will be celebrating their work and sharing their story because we think it’s important to champion the people that make our sector so damn good!
Interview: Brand designer and agency founder, Mickey Devine
As part of our commitment to elevate creative voices we are speaking to members to our community. We will be celebrating their work and sharing their story because we think it’s important to champion the people that make our sector so damn good!
Interview: Graphic designer, storyteller and marketeer, Terri Witherden
As part of our commitment to elevate creative voices we are speaking to members to our community. We will be celebrating their work and sharing their story because we think it’s important to champion the people that make our sector so damn good!
Interview: Freelance designer, creative muralist and community leader, Sarah Carlton
As part of our commitment to elevate creative voices we are speaking to members to our community. We will be celebrating their work and sharing their story because we think it’s important to champion the people that make our sector so damn good!
Resources: Refresh your portfolio with mock–ups from our five favourite libraries
Bringing a portfolio to life can be difficult and with the competition at an all time high it has never been more important to get it right. Our team will be sharing features that document the resources that have helped them throughout their career starting with the world of mock–ups.
Interview: Freelance designer and type enthusiast, Gabrielle Adam
As part of our commitment to elevate creative voices we are speaking to members to our community. We will be celebrating their work and sharing their story because we think it’s important to champion the people that make our sector so damn good!
Interview: Noughts and Ones senior designer, Matt Campbell
As part of our commitment to elevate creative voices we are speaking to members to our community. We will be celebrating their work and sharing their story because we think it’s important to champion the people that make our sector so damn good!
Events
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Training
We understand how hard it is to build a business and lead a team so we now help people including freelancers, founders and brands via our training programme.