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the Loft makes the next step obvious
A baklava guide. A better product picture. A shorter route to checkout. The Missouri creative agency turns the small details of buying into the substance of a brand.
Eezy made free a business.
A designer put free graphics in one place. Eezy grew by making them easier to find, easier to use, and worth paying for.
Doodle Designs makes the logo work
A logo can look perfect on a screen and still be wrong for a shirt. Doodle Designs built a business in the space between the picture and the finished product.
Scott Pipitone Keeps Making Room
A Pittsburgh designer started with a loan for a computer and printer. Three decades later, Scott Pipitone is still rearranging the space around other people’s ideas.
Les Kollegian and the business of remembering your name
A clothing store in Grand Central gave the Jacob Tyler founder an idea about service. Building an agency taught him how difficult that idea could be to keep.
Diego Rosón and the art of taking the long way
The RYO Agency cofounder built a career in design and communication. On a Royal Enfield named Frankie, he found a way to bring photography, friendship and a long-postponed journey back into the picture.
Julie Markfield and the useful art of starting again
After decades in graphic design, CMg Design co-founder Julie Markfield took her eye for composition to the painting studio. The work got bigger, the materials got messier, and the next chapter stayed open.
VistaPrint made small orders a big business
A business card looks simple. Making a few hundred affordable took a different kind of factory - and a company willing to rewrite its own instructions.
Kevin Williams and the Art of Making Room
Kevin Williams started WC+A in his kitchen after years spent making entertainment look inviting. The more revealing story is how he made room for other people to do the work.
Peggy Burke and the art of being understood
She started 1185 with $3,000 and a number that kept turning up. Peggy Burke’s career follows the less tidy business of giving technology a face, keeping a company alive and knowing when to change the brief.
Ben Pham and the life of a brand after goodbye
He helped build Character around the identities companies show the world. With Obello, Ben Pham is working on what happens after the agency hands over the files.
Lila Wallrich and the art of handing over the lead
She gave her Sacramento design business six months to work. Thirty-six years later, Lila Wallrich is handing over the agency while keeping her place on a very different dance floor.
Josh Wilhelm and the question before the design
Before the logo, the website or the marketing plan, Josh Wilhelm wants to understand the customer. The LightHouse Graphics founder has carried that habit from design work into business radio and, more recently, AI automation.
Azhar Saleem and the work behind the famous face
In Lahore, the founder of Digital Visions Tech moves between campaign graphics, video editing and the business of running a design team. His portfolio offers a view of the people doing the visual work around recognizable names.
Bill Poss and the Art of Getting People to Stop
He started with advertising and agricultural packaging in California’s Central Valley. Four decades later, Bill Poss is giving local history a touchscreen - and giving visitors a reason to stay.
Brian D. Fox and the business of the first impression
Before the movie posters came a toy blimp with a message that lit up. Brian D. Fox carried that appetite for attention from a spare-bedroom agency into Hollywood advertising, then into the business of getting independent films seen.
Guusje Bendeler and the Trouble with a Good Mission
She helped build thinkPARALLAX around the idea that business could do good. Then Guusje Bendeler asked a more awkward question: what makes the work feel worthwhile to the person doing it?
Kenny Gravillis and the chipmunk that opened Hollywood’s door
He helped give hip-hop its record sleeves, then had to win Hollywood over from scratch. Kenny Gravillis’s career is a story of pictures, persistence, and making room for the next designer.
Lori Chollar and the art of knowing what to leave out
From print shops to ultrawide screens, Lori Chollar has built a career around making ideas visible. The co-founder of TLC Creative Services brings the same close attention to a corporate presentation, a business workflow, and a badly spaced street sign.
David Traina’s case for creative discomfort
A rejected design-school application, a stubborn attachment to an old hoodie, and an agency rebuilt around a smaller team. David Traina’s career keeps returning to the same question: when is it time to change?
Melissa Ewart and the serious business of making things fun
She founded UC San Diego’s AS Graphic Studio, helped turn its tenth birthday into a hands-on art event, and built a business around the creative jobs that refuse to fit neatly on a list.
Art Mandalas and the afterlife of a club flyer
Before Community Agency made campaigns for an NBA team, Art Mandalas was making flyers for Toronto nightlife. His work has grown into new rooms, new disciplines and new technologies, with the city still close at hand.
Kellie Searle and the Art of Becoming Less Necessary
She started with a writer’s byline and a spare bedroom. Building Searle Creative meant learning when to make the work herself - and when to hire someone better.
Graphic Designer: A logo is only the beginning
Logos, flyers, business cards and explainer videos are the starting point. Graphic Designer’s link to RankBrew puts those everyday creative jobs beside a much bigger question: what happens after somebody notices you?
Khai Tran and the Question That Came Home
Khai Tran wanted more startups in Camden. Then someone asked whether he was hiring its residents. The answer helped turn a design business into a test of his own convictions.
Doug Evans and the expensive art of making things simple
The Juicero founder put four tons of force behind a glass of juice. His next chapter took him to the Mojave Desert, a book, and the patient business of growing sprouts.
Goral Ajmera and the art of the second look
From pencil commercials to cricket collectibles, the Mumbai creative director finds stories in familiar objects. At her independent agency, Brave, the next idea has to earn its own shape.
Virginia Martino and the Art of Starting Over
A design studio, a city magazine, then a deliberate restart. Virginia Martino built BRAND in Las Vegas by bringing the business of attention closer to the people it serves.
Kurt Haiman Drew the Long Line Between Commerce and Art
For nearly three decades, advertising paid Kurt Haiman to look closely. He spent the rest of his life returning the favor - to young designers, to pen and ink, and to the small New Jersey museum he helped keep in public view.
The Hundred No’s That Built a Presentation Factory
Rick Enrico’s software pitch collected roughly 100 rejections. The compliment hidden inside those no’s became SlideGenius - a global agency built for the moment when the meeting matters more than the slides suggest.