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2020Is playfulness the creative tool we’re not making the most of?
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2015This month's Nicer Tuesdays explores failure!
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2015Pentagram partner Angus Hyland chats to us about why dogs and design go together hand in paw
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2021What is the role of binary thinking in Western typography?
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2018Creativity never has to settle in just one box and other learnings from October's Nicer Tuesdays
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2023Is “laziness” the key to creativity? The Lazy Report argues for the art of kicking back
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2016“Be critical, try to look for facts and buy a good office chair”: three art directors share advice
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2018Practical portfolio advice, from choosing a specialism to solving real problems
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2015Zelda Malan on the importance of teaching ideas to design students
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2017Cost-effective, beautiful shit: an interview with the Deadbeat Club
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2018Superimpose explain the worth in creating a studio that's culturally rooted and fully independent
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2017"The way we engage with things is not natural, it’s cultural": what we've learnt at Design Indaba
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2017“My personal work informs everything that comes after it” and other bits we learned at September's Nicer Tuesdays
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2026POV: What worked last time is the enemy of what works next
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2014Come join us for an informal night of design thinking at the Design Museum
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2016Don’t be a designosaur: how to avoid creative extinction
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2019Hackable minds, the power of empathy, and boredom: what we learned at Adobe's 99U
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2015Nice: Artist Nathaniel Russell gives us a comprehensive list of new ways to be nice
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2022Design-thinking
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2025“You have to be really intentional”
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2009MadeThought
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2014Opinion: Pentagram's Naresh Ramchandani issues a creative call to action
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2019Erik Carter wants today’s graphic designers to question the status quo
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2016Five myths about making great design ideas happen
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2015We speak to inventor Dominic Wilcox about his most inspiring books
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2024Frontify’s new interview series sees creative experts answer your burning questions about AI
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2018Three creatives tell us why coding is crucial to contemporary design
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2018Joonghyun Cho on how design has taught him the most important values of life
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2014Jessica Walsh and Tim Goodman release 40 Days of Dating book
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2026The revolution will not be optimised: on frictionmaxxing and the creative virtues of inconvenience
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2026What makes a branding system sustainable? For Stoëmp, it’s rooting it in something deeper than style
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2017Special Projects on why, sometimes, design is best kept simple
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2014Phil Cleaver's highlights from What They Didn't Teach You In Design School
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2022Harry Butt on the importance of learning from your creative failures
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2013Write-up: exploring creative mistakes at our last Nicer Tuesdays
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2009The Right Kind Of Wrong
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2015Rob Bye explains why it's (sometimes) ok for interns to do crap jobs
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2024When perfectionism makes you a better creative, and when it doesn’t
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2014What can designers learn from failing? And how can they "fail better"?
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2020NXS returns with its fifth issue, themed on Virtual Vertigo and our relationship with tech
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2007Unnecessary Quotation Marks
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2016Kim Gehrig discusses being a girl who can, and combining advertising with a social agenda at Here 2016
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2014The Ideal Client: Rounding up week two of interviews about what makes a good client!
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2019Ghazaal Vojdani on the importance of collaboration and the future of her studio
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2015Why does Kinfolk magazine seem to split opinion so much?
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2016Builders Club, Erik Kessels, Mushpit and Kathryn Ferguson talk false realities at Nicer Tuesdays
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2025“It’s dangerous to see the ‘business’ and ‘creative’ work as separate silos”
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2013Opinion: Is outside reference a help or hindrance to the creative process?
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2023What does a truly accessible future look like?
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2019Experimentation is key for every creative practice: what we learned at Nicer Tuesdays April
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2016How to Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better: creativity, and no bullshit
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2025From Form on why following your fascinations is the true antidote to trend-led design
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2018From being bad to burping glitter: things we learned at The Adobe 99U Conference
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2016The importance of creative education: why making is as important as maths, reading and science
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2012Nike Innovation Summit 2012
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2018What's the point of an MA in design anyway?
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2014Opinion: Help us out – what makes a great creative conference?
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2019Jungmyung Lee on how typography can provoke a feeling in its readers
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2018The founder of Valiz on publishing books that change the way we think and talk about art
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2016Submit Saturdays: Thanks Adobe finds inspiration in failure
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2016Why beauty is the hardest won thing and the key to good design
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2020Creativity and control: How to find freedom in the creative process
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2019Process took centre stage at August’s Nicer Tuesdays
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2017Look up and embrace the chaos: what we learned from Nicer Tuesdays July
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2018Hato's Ken Kirton on why co-creation really mattered in 2018
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2022In the Pool Studio’s worldly practice brings together all the best bits of travelling
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2019TwoPoints.Net presents its Bookshelf highlighting the importance of studying other disciplines
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2016How to design with a balance of "optimism and realism"
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2024POV: In a “sea of sameness”, taste and storytelling will become vital creative skills
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2018Why Design Thinking is bullshit
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2015Great video of James Victore and Steve Powers talking about process
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2009I, Me, Mine: do we specialise too soon?
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2021“Designers are not neutral agents”: Paola Antonelli explores design’s role in building a better future
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2018Harnessing disobedience for creativity: designer Nassia Inglessis on the benefits to breaking the rules
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2024Why weird works: How Jessica Walsh is breaking down bland
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2019Kai Tang on how book design is timeless and therefore “more valuable”
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2016Advertising guru Dave Trott and his inspirational Bookshelf
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2022Made Thought on attaching meaning and making “genuine” change through design
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2024“Make it your mission to openly understand why this is happening”
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2018Géraldine Lay's new book is comfortingly therapeutic in its pedestrian point of view
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