Desk of Tobias von Schneider

The unexamined life is not worth living — From the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №259

Last week I wrote about "Style is the answer to everything", a short personal meditation on style and a subtle nod to one of my favorite poems by Charles Bukowski. If you missed it, I highly recommend you read it. You can now read it here on my

by Tobias van Schneider

Designer & maker Ana Kraš on not taking yourself too seriously

Ana Kraš doesn’t like to overthink things. The Serbian designer, photographer and maker isn’t too concerned with how others receive her work. Yet it's been well received all the same.

by Tobias van Schneider

The best of 2020

Considering how unpredictable this year has been, it’s amusing that several of our top articles of 2020 are predictions.

by Tobias van Schneider

The designer’s gift guide to watches

If you’ve been following me online, you know I love watches. I’m a designer, and watches are essentially what design is about.

by Tobias van Schneider

A typographer and designer’s guide to elegance

Every piece of Ayaka B. Ito's portfolio is considered. No subhead is overlooked, no hover state left to chance. Every color complements its individual project. Every piece of text is carefully kerned.

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Behind the scenes of video game design, featuring Headland

Video game design is still a young enough practice to feel mysterious and discoverable. That's even more true for mobile games. Going behind the scenes of Headland, a new action-adventure game for mobile, we learn the field of game design is one designers are creating as they go.

by Jon Vio

The best design portfolios of November 2020

Once a week, we select two portfolios created with Semplice to feature in our Best Of Showcase. Here we've collected our favorites from the past month.

by Lizzy Spano

The writing tool I didn’t know I needed

When I first started using mymind (already the pun potential is dangerous for a writer), I didn’t really use it. I dropped in a few screenshots for ad inspiration and forgot about them.

by Tobias van Schneider

Design in Greece 🇬🇷 featuring The Birthdays Design

Our latest addition to the Design Around the World series welcomes The Birthdays Design, an art direction and graphic design studio based in Athens.

by Tobias van Schneider

A bold new studio called Shy

I'm still not quite over the awe of the internet. To think you can decide to create a new business or pursue a new career and establish a presence for it online the next day? It's magic.

by Damilola Marcus & Seyi Olusanya

Running a design studio where design is underappreciated

In April 2021, it will be five years since we started Dá Design Studio. Hurray! The dream was to build a design studio that was much better than what was available in the country – a design studio that put Nigerian design on the map of global conversations.