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Advice
Making ideas happen

How to design a brand with motion

30 Sep
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30 Sep
Monday
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30 Sep
The role of motion in modern brands is obvious. Understanding the basics of briefing and managing the process will bring a new dimension to your work.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Advice
Making ideas happen

How to prepare for a content workshop

16 Oct
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16 Oct
Wednesday
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16 Oct
Planning content is an important part of creating a website. To get the most out of a workshop session, you need to know what it’s for, who to bring and how to prepare.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Advice
Starting a studio

How to start a design studio

12 Mar
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12 Mar
Tuesday
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12 Mar
A step-by-step guide to starting a design studio by Studio Output.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Tools

Webflow

18 Sep
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18 Sep
Wednesday
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18 Sep
In 2017, I built the first version of Design Calendar over a weekend while learning Webflow. It is a super powerful tool and very easy to learn. Since then I've used Webflow on hundreds of client projects and recommend it to everyone I mentor.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Advice
Ideation

Learn brainstorming from IDEO

28 Aug
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28 Aug
Wednesday
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28 Aug
Brainstorming is an activity that will help you generate more innovative ideas. It’s one of many methods of ideation—the process of coming up with new ideas—and it’s core to the design thinking process.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Websites

Identity Designed

9 Jun
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Sunday
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9 Jun
Identity Designed is a website and books devoted to the design of visual identities.
Curated by
Lydia Fee
Resources
Websites

bpando

2 Jul
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Tuesday
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2 Jul
For over a decade BP&O has offered a distinctive point of view on brand identity design and packaging, carving out a space alongside legacy publishers.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Podcasts

The Great Design Lead Podcast

23 Jun
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Sunday
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23 Jun
A no-code/design podcast & my wonderful excuse to meet new people and chat about life.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Newsletters

Driftime

28 May
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Tuesday
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28 May
Driftime® are a design and impact agency approaching the complex challenges of today with progressive brands and businesses to design an impact-driven digital future. Our mission is to empower social, environmental and economic impact through ethical strategy and digital design.
Curated by
Abb-d Taiyo
Resources
Newsletters

Dense Discovery

22 Jul
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Monday
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22 Jul
A weekly newsletter sharing useful apps, tools and websites related to art, design projects, technology, sustainability and culture.
Curated by
Abb-d Choudhury
Resources
Websites

Cargo

16 Jul
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Tuesday
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16 Jul
CARGO is a site builder designed to meet the various needs of creative professionals. There is (of course) single portfolio type use — but you can also design and publish a whole group of sites, each with its own purpose.
Curated by
Emily Wang
Resources
Newsletters

e-flux

21 Aug
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Wednesday
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21 Aug
e-flux was started by artists in 1999. Online, e-flux.com spans numerous strains of critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory, and connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world.
Curated by
Luisa Hilmer
Resources
Newsletters

OMGLORD

29 Jun
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Saturday
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29 Jun
OMGLORD is a curated directory and newsletter by Gabby Lord, sharing thoughts on design, creativity, and handy resources.
Curated by
Zie Kirk
Resources
Newsletters

Medium

10 May
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Friday
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10 May
Medium is a home for human stories and ideas. Here, anyone can share insightful perspectives, useful knowledge, and life wisdom with the world—without building a mailing list or a following first.
Curated by
Claire Cessford
Resources
Newsletters

Typewolf

15 May
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Wednesday
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15 May
Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font combination for their next design project—features web fonts in the wild, font recommendations and learning resources.
Curated by
Ana Iugulescu
Resources
Newsletters

Creative Mornings

16 May
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Thursday
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16 May
CreativeMornings is the world’s largest face-to-face creative community
Curated by
Ana Iugulescu
Resources
Newsletters

Type Thursday

24 May
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Friday
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24 May
Type Thursday is a global meetup for type lovers.
Curated by
Ana Iugulescu
Resources
Workshops

Regular Studio – Brand Design

21 Jun
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21 Jun
Online
£3.99-5.99
Friday
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21 Jun
Online
£3.99-5.99
egular Studio is an independent design agency based in London, specialising in branding, campaign & digital. During this workshop their co-founder, Josh Evans, will share the processes they use when developing brand identities.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Workshops

Noughts & Ones – Digital Sustainability

13 Jun
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13 Jun
Online
£3.99-5.99
Thursday
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13 Jun
Online
£3.99-5.99
We build low impact Shopify stores for e-commerce brands who care about people and planet. We believe that profit should never come at the expense of people or planet. As a Certified B Corp™ agency, we're on a mission to make a positive impact by working with like-minded clients and partners to sell more products in the right way.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Workshops

GHTK x M–N Associates – Brand Design

12 Jun
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12 Jun
Online
£3.99-5.99
Wednesday
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12 Jun
Online
£3.99-5.99
e are a creative design firm in HCMC, Vietnam specialising in branding. At M–N Associates, we work with clients starting from initial strategy to execute design, content, customer experience and art direction to the finest production of every project.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Studios

Airborne Studio

12 Jun
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Wednesday
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12 Jun
brand & digital creative studio for innovative start-ups and wide-eyed visionaries.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Ginger fox studio

12 Jun
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Wednesday
,
12 Jun
A team of creative thinkers creating brands that people love!
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Alternative aesthetics

17 Jun
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Monday
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17 Jun
Illustration for advertising, products, murals and more!
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Made by Analogue

28 Jun
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Friday
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28 Jun
A playful and passionate team delivering diverse experiences to a client base worldwide.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Alice Rotelli

6 Jun
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Thursday
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6 Jun
Creative couple with 6+ years of international experience in the advertising industry, and a passion for pitches, concepting, storytelling and all things video related.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Evoke

24 May
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Friday
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24 May
Evoke is a multi award-winning brand design studio based in Brighton.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Chloe Norman design

17 May
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Friday
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17 May
Delivering impactful brands through meaningful design, animation and illustration.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Fluent Format

3 May
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Friday
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3 May
Fluent Format is a global B2B brand agency.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

makedo.design

5 Jun
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Wednesday
,
5 Jun
Your neighbourly Webflow Studio ready to make your design a reality.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Studios

Badberries

24 May
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Friday
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24 May
A creative studio using Motion Thinking to build irresistible brands and compelling activations that stop people in their tracks.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Podcasts

Endless Vital Activity

2 May
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Thursday
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2 May
Endless Vital Activity is a podcast developed by creative studio Accept and Proceed, bringing you conversations to inspire radical action.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Podcasts

Invisibilia

5 Jun
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Wednesday
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5 Jun
Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.
Curated by
Zie Kirk
Resources
Podcasts

Twenty Thousand Hertz – Interesting stories about (but not only) sound

30 Apr
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Tuesday
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30 Apr
The way we each experience sound depends on so many unique factors, from tiny receptors in our ears to the way we were taught to communicate.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Websites

Design Systems International

12 Sep
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Thursday
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12 Sep
Design Systems International is a digital design consultancy that builds products at the speed modern business requires.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Tools

Designmodo

1 Jun
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Saturday
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1 Jun
Designmodo is an all-in-one solution to create website and email newsletter designs that impress and engage your subscribers and customers.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Newsletters

heydesigner

28 Jun
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Friday
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28 Jun
Daily curated newsletter for product people, UXers, PMs and frontend developers.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Newsletters

Lovers Magazine

20 Jun
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Thursday
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20 Jun
The go to newsletter for forward thinking product leaders.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Websites

women who design

12 Jul
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Friday
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12 Jul
Women Who Design is a Twitter directory of accomplished women in the design industry. It aims to help people find notable and relevant voices to follow on Twitter by parsing Twitter bios for popular keywords.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Websites

It’s Nice That

2 May
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Thursday
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2 May
It’s Nice That believes passionately that creative inspiration is for everyone and by championing the most exciting creative work on our website and social channels, and through our events programme, we want to open up this world to the widest possible audience.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Websites

AIGA Eye on Design

30 Apr
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Tuesday
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30 Apr
AIGA Eye on Design covers the world’s most exciting designers—and the issues they care about. They’re published by AIGA, the professional association for design, the oldest and largest not-for-profit design organisation in the United States.
Resources
Websites

IBM Design

27 Apr
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Saturday
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27 Apr
Learn about IBM's philosophy
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Books

The New Typography by Jan Tschichold

1 May
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Wednesday
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1 May
it opens up a whole new world for those who's just starting learning typographic rules, later on allows you to break those rules safely and have a solid understanding of that remote typographic universe
Curated by
Diana Valot
Resources
Books

Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

29 Apr
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Monday
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29 Apr
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Books

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez 

25 May
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Saturday
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25 May
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re a woman.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Books

Run Studio Run by Eli Altman

18 Sep
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Wednesday
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18 Sep
The book is a step-by-step guide that helps you look at your studio critically — as a business as opposed to an artistic endeavor
Curated by
Erica Choi
Resources
Books

A Designer's Art by Paul Rand

11 Sep
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Wednesday
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11 Sep
If Paul Rand was the most influential American graphic designer of the twentieth century, then Paul Rand: A Designer's Art is the most important on his work.
Curated by
Sara Caldas
Resources
Books

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

30 Jul
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Tuesday
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30 Jul
The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Books

Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

22 Aug
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Thursday
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22 Aug
What really makes people glad to be alive? What are the inner experiences that make life worthwhile? For more than two decades Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied those states in which people report feelings of concentration and deep enjoyment.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Books

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve Krug

3 Jul
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Wednesday
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3 Jul
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Books

Hooked by  Nir Eyal

18 Jul
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Thursday
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18 Jul
A must read for everyone who cares about driving customer engagement.
Curated by
Anton Wade
Resources
Books

Now You See It, and Other Essays on Design by Michael Bierut

28 Jun
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Friday
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28 Jun
Design is a way to engage with real content, real experience," writes celebrated essayist Michael Bierut in this follow-up to his best-selling Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design (2007)
Curated by
Paulina Jawor
Resources
Books

The Geometry of Type by Stephen Coles

14 May
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Tuesday
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14 May
The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces
Curated by
Belen Picher
Resources
Books

Corporate Rebels by Joost Minnaar

11 Jun
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Tuesday
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11 Jun
8 radical lessons from 150 of the world's most inspiring companies. This book explores the stories and strategies of companies that have successfully implemented highly progressive and employee-centered approaches to work.
Curated by
Matteo Valfre
Resources
Books

Creativity, Inc.

24 Apr
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Wednesday
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24 Apr
An inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar.
Curated by
Belen Picher
Advice
Finding clients

How To Build A $1,000,000 Personal Brand

24 Aug
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Saturday
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24 Aug
Dive into a thorough discussion on what makes some personal brands so influential and others not as much. We analyze cases like Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Kanye West, and discuss the critical components required for a strong personal brand.
Curated by
Anton Wade