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New Mixtape for Designers & Makers

Hello friends! As some of you might know, I love creating playlists & mix tapes on the side and share them with you. In the last year, I shared eleven individual playlists with you, ranging from 10 to hundreds of songs. What I love about this is that I can

by Tobias van Schneider

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.

by Tobias van Schneider

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

by Tobias van Schneider

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

by Tobias van Schneider

Semplice turned two!

At the time I was sitting in New York, and my partner on Semplice in Germany. We jumped on a quick phone call to discuss the last few details, and then we did it, we pushed Semplice [http://www.semplicelabs.com/] live. One hour later we had our first customer,

by Tobias van Schneider

Best of the Week, Edition 65

Two weeks ago I sent one of my weekly article titled with "Creativity is like breathing [https://www.vanschneider.com/creativity-is-like-breathing/]". The article was a different format than usual. Rather than sharing one particular article with you, I shared a more diary style format with personal recommendations &

by Tobias van Schneider

Why I Write

I thought about this question a lot in the last couple weeks. All I know is that writing had a huge impact on my life. And the more I thought about it, the more I found out what exactly writing did to me as a person and my career as

by Tobias van Schneider

Creativity Is like breathing

The author of the Oatmeal recently published a comic strip called "Creativity is like breathing" [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/creativity] and it was one of the best things I've seen on the Internet in a while, so I wanted to share it with you here. The

by Tobias van Schneider

Visiting Vidcon as a Non-Youtuber

For those who don't know, you could say VidCon is the largest "online video" conference out there. Some might just call it the YouTube conference because this is what it's mostly about. This year more than 30.000 fans, creators and industry leaders got

by Tobias van Schneider

Secrets about freelancing, I lied about my career

Now, my advice might shock you a bit. When I started out as a designer, I lied about my career. I lied about my abilities and my experience. I kept it subtle. I didn't lie to elevate myself or to harm anyone else, but I did it because