Working From Home: A Beginner’s Guide
Practical tips for taking advantage of the perks without falling into the pitfalls of freelancing or working remotely.
Big Ideas
By Emily Ludolph
The Cottage Design Industry Popping Up Around 2020
As upstart campaigns like that of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez become a new normal in American politics, a cottage industry of design agencies, more used to digital campaigns than political ones, is growing up around these candidates and rethinking what it looks like to run for office in 2020.
Ten Human Skills for the Future of Work
What if the key to producing better work in the future was actually driven by practicing empathy and self-leadership?
How Productive Creatives Manage Their To-Do Lists
The mess of to-do apps, Post-it notes, and push notifications that we use to keep us on track is a unique…
7 Ways to De-escalate Office Tension
Mediation offers plenty of tactics to help turn fraught deskside conversations into productive ones.
Branding & Marketing
By Emily Ludolph
What a thousand-year-old Japanese tradition can teach us about branding
A Berlin-based aroma space designer brings a subtle Japanese art and process to the Western world. Plus, what this means for your brand process.
Why We All Need A Mentor, Or Two
Three creatives reflect on the relationships that have transformed their work and lives, from big leaps to milestone moments and everything…
Creating a Freelance Life Through Mixed Media
The path a creative career takes can be art itself.
What a thousand-year-old Japanese tradition can teach us about branding
A Berlin-based aroma space designer brings a subtle Japanese art and process to the Western world. Plus, what this means for…
How Innovation Has Lost Its Meaning - And How to Reclaim It
Innovation’s true practice must be restored, and a new code adopted.
What Does the Word Magazine Mean Today?
This year's ModMag Conference took a philosophical approach to the world of magazine creation, ideation, and production.
Leadership
By Emily Ludolph
Bust Fragmentation and Embrace the Unfinished
Pentagram partner Eddie Opara talks US passports, Democracy, and the gravity of discussing graphic design.
