Tobias van Schneider

Hi, I'm Tobias, a German designer living in New York. I'm the author of this blog, nice to meet you!

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24 Oct 2016 • 11 min read

My Photo & Camera Gear

A lot of readers ask me what camera I use for my pictures, so here is the full article with all my gear.

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14 Oct 2016 • 3 min read

How to Find Your Perfect Color Pairings

You probably know this, every time you start working on a new project you have to define a new color palette. Over the years, I kept repeating this process so many times that I started building my own reference library. Every time I created new color pairings, I saved them

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10 Oct 2016 • 7 min read

Best Experiences to Start With Your HTC Vive

As you might already noticed, I got a lot into VR the last few weeks. Following up on my recent post on "Setting up my VR machine" I like to recommend you a couple games and apps that are perfect if you just started out with your VR

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7 Oct 2016 • 3 min read

Best Semplice portfolios of the month

As you might know, we launched Semplice [http://www.semplicelabs.com] in 2014 to build the perfect portfolio tool we always dreamed off. Since then many great designers started using Semplice and I'm always blown away to see what other designers create. It's inspiring to see

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6 Oct 2016 • 6 min read

Setting up My VR Machine

But before we get into it, please note that I barely just began getting familiar with VR, so you can take this article as Part 1 of a series that will grow in the future. Let's start with the basics: Why VR? The first time I put on

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5 Oct 2016 • 1 min read

Sarah Cooper Illustrates Comics, Even Though She Can’t Draw

I'm excited to announce Episode 15 of the NTMY show! (my own little podcast, for those who don't know yet). On this episode, I have Sarah Cooper on the show. I've been following Sarahs work for quite a while now and I'm

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12 Sep 2016 • 1 min read

New NTMY Episode with Malika Favre

Malika Favre can’t be put in a box. Her art teachers tried, clients have tried – but the French illustrator won’t let that happen. In my recent NTMY episode she tells us why, and shares advice about perfection, taking risks, and choosing the right projects. I'm absolutely

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7 Sep 2016 • 3 min read

The DESK Blog Is Finally Live!

Over the last one and a half years I've been writing more than 120 articles that I published either through my weekly email list, or randomly on Medium or other outlets. But what I always struggled with was that there is no place where you can find them

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1 Sep 2016 • 4 min read

Lessons from a self-taught creative director

In the 11 years since she co-founded Refinery29, Piera Gelardi has helped grow the company from four employees to 400, and she picked up some invaluable wisdom about life and work along the way. In Piera’s episode on the NTMY Show [https://www.vanschneider.com/show/], she shared

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23 Aug 2016 • 3 min read

Why do you work?

I recently wrote a piece called “Work/Life Balance is Bullshit,” [https://medium.com/desk-of-van-schneider/work-life-balance-is-bullshit-f51bf8b3767#.ih5vs5qnj] which turned out to be more controversial than I anticipated. To sum it up, I believe that work isn’t the negative thing our “live