Career Advice

— Dear Young Designer, Part II 2025·11·04 1 min — Does it FEEL right? 2024·06·10 4 min — 5 hard truths for young designers 2024·06·04 6 min — People are talking about me, and I started it 2023·07·12 2 min — The best designers are artists 2023·01·10 2 min — On finding your niche 2022·03·30 2 min — Give me the boring design jobs 2022·03·03 3 min — One video, article or side project can change your life 2022·02·23 4 min — I will never ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do myself 2022·02·14 2 min — Where are our design heroes? — DESK of van Schneider — Edition Nr.204 2022·02·14 5 min — You can become a designer in 9 months – without leaving your current job 2021·09·15 4 min — Little portfolio tricks for new designers 2021·08·23 6 min — Passive designer phrases we should eliminate from our vocabulary 2021·08·11 4 min — 7 pieces of portfolio advice from 7 years of running Semplice 2021·08·04 3 min — The experienced designer's unsaid rules for getting work done 2021·07·21 3 min — The counterintuitive phrase that changed how I work 2021·07·09 4 min — Dear young designer 2021·07·05 2 min — The hack for self-discipline you learned as a child 2021·06·22 2 min — Start in the middle 2021·06·16 1 min — It's not a small world after all: Month two of my HOVS apprenticeship 2021·06·04 3 min — Beginners know something experts don't 2021·05·27 3 min — Luck is a dangerous word 2021·05·25 2 min — How you get noticed 2021·04·16 10 min — How to make a portfolio when you don't have any work to show 2021·04·06 4 min — The best investment you can make as a creative 2021·03·29 3 min — Photographer Cait Oppermann on the anxiety and reward of sharing personal work 2021·02·24 6 min — How do you improve your skills or pursue a new career when you still have a full-time job? 2021·02·10 5 min — The beginner's secret 2021·02·04 1 min — The opportunity you’ve been waiting for 2021·01·12 1 min — How to future-proof your creative career 2021·01·04 3 min — Designer & maker Ana Kraš on not taking yourself too seriously 2020·12·21 3 min — It’s all a game 2020·10·27 1 min — Establishing your identity as a designer 2020·10·15 6 min — Why your unconventional design resume gives you an advantage 2020·10·15 4 min — A counterintuitive way to get noticed 2020·09·10 1 min — The most valuable designer 2020·09·03 1 min — There’s more than meets the eye 2020·08·26 1 min — You could plan your life, or you could design it 2020·08·26 6 min — An ancient, long-forgotten trick for doing good work 2020·08·05 1 min — How to land a design job at Instacart 2020·07·27 12 min — The art of pricing freelance projects 2020·07·21 11 min — Working for enterprises vs. startups: A designer’s playbook 2020·07·17 5 min — The welcome death of agency speak 2020·07·13 3 min — Senior portfolios vs. junior portfolios 2020·06·17 3 min — You could monitor your team, or you could motivate them 2020·06·16 4 min — Month two as a design intern: Lessons in perfectionism 2020·05·04 3 min — Designing in quarantine 2020·04·28 6 min — How to cheat your way into a design job 2020·04·17 1 min