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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4 Apr 2016 • 2 min read

If you don’t do it, someone else will

I learned this early on a long time ago as a little kid. My mother always had weird ways to raise us kids, and one was in particular outstanding and made a big impression on me.

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28 Mar 2016 • 2 min read

A Teacher Explains, a Mentor Inspires

I often get asked if I have had any mentors along the way in my life and career. I'm not sure if I'm right with this, but I feel like this is a very American question to ask.

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7 Mar 2016 • 3 min read

This is for you, internet

This article was written in 2016. Despite its positive and hopeful tone, you can already sense the shift we've experienced on the internet in the handful of years since I wrote it.

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2 Mar 2016 • 3 min read

Designers, limit your tools

15 years ago I would call myself a “Webmaster”. I still think that sounds awesome. I remember that I made about $400 a month as a computer scientist apprentice, just enough to cover rent & food. I had a little bit of equipment but not really much. I was always

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29 Feb 2016 • 3 min read

What Excites You?

(listen to the same song I enjoyed to when writing this article)It's such an easy thing to say. When you've found something you love and others ask how they can find it too, you just say "follow your passion," like it was that

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23 Feb 2016 • 4 min read

Why you should change your mind

But when it comes to bigger decisions or anything related to our identity or profession, changing our mind happens much less frequently. Generally we believe that this is a good thing, “sticking to our core values” as we like to call it. Once we made a decision, we like to

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22 Feb 2016 • 4 min read

How to find your own design style

I get a lot of emails from young designers often asking me on how they can find their own unique style.

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21 Jan 2016 • 8 min read

Every reason to panic

I’ve meant to write about this for a while but just couldn’t put it into words. It’s a sensitive topic and it makes me feel vulnerable, but I wanted to write and publish it because I wish more people would do the same – especially in our industry.

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17 Jan 2016 • 3 min read

Make more, live more

Today I want to take a different perspective on the human lifespan, specifically a human lifespan in today’s world. Doing this helps me zoom out and evaluate if the things I’m doing right now are really important to me, or if I just got stuck in the flow.

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11 Jan 2016 • 3 min read

100 Years Ago

But today I was thinking about more than just this past year. I started thinking about how much our world has changed in just the last 100 years. There are human beings on earth who were born more than 100 years ago. We call them centenarians, people who live to