Hand holding pear green book titled How to Be a Design Student.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kQu3Ute4M0l0AZ4cxdJFk?si=nKESt2wRR8G1Ze4ZDL1zBA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A5XWxsiDPze4JL4O1QuARdt

A photo of me standing on a box holding the poster I designed and printed.

https://www.jakedugard.com/writing/sharp-points

Listen to this episode from Tangent on Spotify. In this episode, I talk with Mitch Goldstein about his new book How to be a Design Student (and how to teach them). We discuss what it was like to not only design a book, but also write one. We talk about whether a formal design education or learning online is better. We also dive into familiar education topics like grading and critiques while also discussing topics like active curiosity, agency, pulling, and what it means to be a tourist, traveler, and citizen. Links:Mitch Goldstein’s website

003 Mitch Goldstein on How to Be a Design Student

I have to make the switch over to Any Distance. The shareable image from Apple Fitness is pretty terrible.

I recently finished this book. If you are currently a student, teacher, or are just interested in reinvigorating your curiosity, this is a great book to read.
And if you need a teaser, listen to my podcast with Mitch. We discuss a variety of topics from the book.

Great weekend camping and hiking in  Arkansas.

I am not really a product designer, but I’ve been working on building that skill in my free time.

Starting a new quarter of classes this week. I love to talk about process on the first day. Diagram by Peter Ahlberg in his book Please Make This Look Nice.

Hey @damien, any way I can send you an email?

A short clip from my latest podcast interview with Mitch Goldstein. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kQu3Ute4M0l0AZ4cxdJFk?si=nKESt2wRR8G1Ze4ZDL1zBA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A5XWxsiDPze4JL4O1QuARdt

I am a generalist. I love it all. Just finished designing, illustrating, and screenprinting a poster for an event next week at my school.

What’s more work? Making something or promoting that you made something?!

Loved Nothing to See Here. Such a beautiful and funny story with a little twist. Need some recommendations for what to read next.

I am a designer who sometimes writes. 

https://www.jakedugard.com/writing/sharp-points

Any p5.js people on here? Need help translating Processing code to p5.js.

Giving the gif feature a test. Also, my students laughed at me the other day because I pronounced it jif. Care to weigh in?

How do you keep from feeling defeated and giving up?

Album art for my class’s collaborative Spotify playlist. I should probably be spending my time doing other stuff. 😂

I am excited to publish the podcast episode with @andy. We talked about why he and his small team are building a new space for people to connect and why they are not interested in moving fast and breaking things. It’ll be out Monday.

I was actually playing around with an app version of CV for fun when I got an invite to Posts. ❤️

Adding sliders for future episodes of Tangent.

Hope to show more of this project in the next week or so.

I have so many of these Baggu totes I made a couple of years ago. I want to give away a couple. Reply with your most used emoji. (Shipping only in US sorry)

Got my tote and loving my new desk name plate 🥰 thank you Jake!

Hey everyone. So last minute but I am about to interview @andy. Any questions you would like me to ask him???

Process + GPT-4 has been a lot of fun. I see @andy.

I made a tool using Processing to generate cover art for different podcast episodes. I then decided to translate that to p5js so I could publish it online for anyone to use. It’s rough but it’s there. Give it a try.

Some patterns for a rebrand I worked on recently.

I talk with @andy about Read.cv and Posts. We discuss why he and his small team are building a new space for people to connect and why they are not interested in moving fast and breaking things.

Available now wherever you listen to podcasts. https://tinyurl.com/3wwh3thr

I had the honor of talking to Mitch Goldstein on my podcast Tangent. We talked about his new book How to Be a Design Student. https://tinyurl.com/yxm2z5wk

I talked to designer, writer, and educator Elizabeth Goodspeed. Elizabeth passionately shares her love of archiving, explains why designers should know their design history, tells a story of when she ran into Paula Scher in the Pentagram bathroom, & so much more. Link in profile.