A few years ago I witnessed something on twitter that struck a cord with me, I’m not sure why but the project fascinated me. I was watching a hashtag, #chainletter — every time it popped up there was a new letter by some designer out there in the world. I’m not sure how the project started, or who but eventually it would die off maybe getting to the letter E. Then a day or so later someone else would start a new chain and the cycle continued.

I’m not fully sure why this project intrigued me as much as it…

Creating a poster show from scratch is hard. Creating a poster show when you’ve never done it before is even harder. But a small group of dedicated designers living in Austin, Texas pulled it off — and, in the end, galvanized the community to generate nearly 10,000 meals for Central Texans in need. Below is a recount of how they did it, and what was accomplished.

Should a designer know how to code?

I’m at ConvergeSE in Columbia, South Carolina this week, and I am surrounded by really smart people. Just like any conference you’ve ever been to there’s amazingly smart things being said and talked about but the question that keeps coming up or talked about in conversations is should a designer know how to code?

I’ve heard this question over and over, and every time I think about Stewie from Family Guy and how he ask’s “What the Deuce?” but I see my fellow designer’s / collegues maybe replacing that with “What the .div?”…

How does a designer go from Nike to IBM?

The short answer is that there’s no real defined path when you’re making transitions from marketing to software. That’s true for a lot of job transition — it’s true for designers and it’s true for most people in general.

For me, the shift from working at Nike to IBM was not a normal path. But then again I never thought I would had worked at Nike in the first place. And I never really thought I would be working at IBM either. However sometimes the star’s align and things just happen…