Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.

I’m a type and digital designer interested in combining technology and design. I’ve worked on projects about variable fonts like my typeface Jabin, and an investigation of how to streamline content between print and web.

Erika Hall is the co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule Design and the author of Just Enough Research. Her consulting practice focuses on helping organizations make better, more evidence-based decisions.

Mimi’s studies in psychology during her undergraduate years contributed to her belief that the mind and body are interconnected. She incorporates this holistic approach to design by practicing intent and making every interaction count.

When I was working with Thoko as a mentor for UX Academy at Designlab, one of the case study prompts was a responsive web design for a revival of the Pan Am Airlines brand. I suggested that she use the Lilium Jet as inspiration.

Jonas Downey turned his job search into a design challenge. He got the job when he demonstrated his strategic persistence to determine his path in life by proving his ability to solve problems and improve his skills in order to apply again, months after he applied the first time.

Aleks Popov’s UX design case study, Inhale, was spotlighted on the Career Karma website. The case study was rated best project of the month.

Product design has enabled Whitney Martin to bring her documentary approach—raising the awareness and value of other people’s experiences—to the iterative process of design, inspiring a dynamic environment of inclusivity and collaboration.

Jessica Hische grew up in Pennsylvania. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she works as a letterer, illustrator, type designer, and relentless procrastiworker.

Your presentations are the best opportunity to tell your story and inspire people to act. Since 1988, Nancy Duarte has built a business on the art and science of creating great presentations.

As a hiring manager, my biggest advice for students is to avoid the long form case study style format. Very rarely is anyone spending the time looking through all of that, and it would be better used in the portfolio presentation portion of the interview process.

Type Brigade is Vancouver’s type meetup. Kenneth Ormandy became the co-organiser with Cody Jones in 2014, relaunching it as speaker series, focusing on typography, type design, and lettering.

Alanna demonstrates the importance of community in building relationships that foster one’s growth and development as a designer.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

One day, my art teacher introduced me to the work of Wassily Kandinsky. From that moment on, Kandinsky’s work has inspired and influenced my own to grow and develop into what it is now.

In other words, we want the same things from design that we want from our fellow human beings. Coincidentally, the ancient Greeks framed this ideal in the context of knowing, making and doing: to know truth, to make beauty and to do good.

Eddit is an online companion tool for creatives designed to replace linear, text-heavy learning management system (LMS) interfaces. Eddit splices together 2D & 3D aspects of studio culture, learning, and sharing within the framework of a digital portfolio.