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Tina Eisenberg Built a World Out of Things She Wished Existed
A free breakfast, a short talk, a room full of strangers. Tina Eisenberg turned that modest recipe into a worldwide creative ritual by treating generosity as infrastructure.
Inbeon knows a story needs a crowd
A stalled werewolf comic, a convention built around artists, and an animation launch on the horizon. Inbeon’s history is a lesson in getting creative people into the same room.
Troo Wear and the social life of a T-shirt
A screen printer, a box of tees, and a reason to show up. Christopher C. Lee’s Bay Area label reveals how clothing becomes a calling card for a creative community.
AIGA Los Angeles Wants More Designers in the Room
Founded by design heavyweights, AIGA Los Angeles now puts its connections to work through free events, public-school education and a community-built logo archive. Its most useful offering is a way into the profession.
AIGA San Diego Tijuana Has a Better Brief: Bring Two Cities Together
At AIGA’s only binational chapter, the work stretches from student portfolios to a shared design identity. The useful part is how much of it begins with people showing up for one another.
Skillshare
Skillshare is an online learning community where creatives learn by doing. Through tens of thousands of project-based video classes taught by working professionals - in illustration, design, photography, film, marketing, music and more - the New York-based platform turns a flat monthly subscription into access to a library built and taught by practitioners rather than academics. Founded in 2010, it has grown into one of the largest creative learning marketplaces in the world.
Domestika
Domestika is a global learning platform for creatives - illustrators, designers, photographers, animators, writers - built around professionally produced video courses and an enormous community of working professionals. Founded in Spain in 2002 as a forum, it became a unicorn in 2022 and now hosts millions of students taking courses in more than 10 languages.
Daniel Villegas
Daniel Villegas is Co-Founder and COO of Domestika, the world's fastest-growing online learning community for creative professionals. Starting from a scrappy Spanish-language forum in 2002, Daniel helped steer Domestika into a $1.3 billion unicorn with over 10 million members worldwide. Based in New York, he brings over two decades of experience across e-commerce, digital marketing, SEO, and startup operations — including earlier ventures as co-founder of Webpop and founder of Infohostal.com — making him one of the key architects of a platform that has trained millions of designers, illustrators, photographers, and creators globally.
Julio Cotorruelo
Julio G. Cotorruelo is the co-founder and CEO of Domestika, the global online learning community for creative professionals. Starting in 2002 as a modest Spanish-language forum for designers in Madrid, Domestika grew under his leadership into a unicorn valued at $1.3 billion, with over 8 million members, 2,000+ courses, and a presence in six languages. A notoriously press-shy entrepreneur, Cotorruelo built one of the world's largest creative education platforms by championing affordable, pay-per-course learning and the belief that creativity is best learned through doing - not just reading.