Agency co-founder, podcast host, and author Kelsey Gilbert-Kreiling chats to us about finding small acts of creativity to unblock your creative spirit, working with celebrity clients, and her latest work: publishing a book and a course.

Catching Up With... Kelsey Gilbert-Kreiling

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How do you communicate your design decisions without sounding defensive? Here's the shift of mindset you might need to stay honest while avoiding conflict or feeling criticized.

Ask a Designer #17: How do I communicate design decisions?

Go back to basics with these copywriting tips and techniques for people who aren't professional writers or frankly, even amateur writer-types.

Copywriting for Designers: A Guide for Getting Started

Where did copywriting come from and where is it heading? Find out in Ana Wang's latest article.

The Future of Copywriting is User-Focused

Illustrator and concept artist Guru Jords chats to us about life and work: from overcoming creative block and to finding inspiration in nature.

Catching Up With... Guru Jords

Content is king? Here's what that means for designers.

How to Design with Content in Mind

So you’ve built a personal brand, what next? Coach and strategist Hollie Arnett takes you through the steps to work on your growth.

How to Grow your Personal Brand as a Creative

Getting let go from a job can be the biggest blow to your self worth. Here's how to build yourself back up and come back stronger!

Ask a Designer #16: How Can I Rebuild My Self Esteem After Being Fired?

Want to start building a brand for yourself? Coach and strategist Hollie Arnett shows you the steps to success.

How to Build a Personal Brand: The Creative’s Guide

Wondering if you need a formal qualification for design? Charli guides a fashion designer through their options for forging a new path in graphic design.

Ask a Designer #15: Should I Get a Formal Design Qualification to Make a Career Change?

Ever been hired for a freelance design job that has no project manager on it? Charli discusses some coping mechanisms in this column.

Ask a Designer #14: What Do I Do When a Project is Lacking Management?

Get creative with coding in part 2 of Arianna's step-by-step guide! Build your very own web-based painting app and create digital masterpieces, all in the browser.

How to Paint with Code: Building Your App

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What's the difference between a marketing designer, product designer, UX designer... and all the other designers? In her first column, Charli Marie demystifies the many different roles that crop up while job hunting.

Ask a Designer #13: What Do All These Design Roles Actually Mean?

Can building a personal brand really help you land the right kind of clients and increase your income? Find out in this article by brand coach and strategist, Hollie Arnett.

How Personal Branding Can Help Your Creative Career

Want to make an app but no idea where to start? We've got you! SuperHi's content lead Faith talks to Lou about creating our Plan, Design + Code Your First App course.

Planning, Designing + Coding Your First iOs App with Lou

What is UI design? Why are design systems so important? From styles and components to astrology apps, we chat to SuperHi's resident Design Teacher, Par Memon, about all things user interface design.

Creativity, Components + Community: In Conversation with SuperHi's UI Design Teacher

What does it take to keep creativity flowing through the veins of a business? In his final instalment of this series, Koto's creative director and co-founder James Greenfield delves into how to keep the energy and avoid "creative rot".

How to Keep Business Creative

Project Management

Get creative with coding! Follow Arianna's step-by-step guide to creating your very own paintbrush kit and start experimenting.

How to Paint with Code: Creating Your Brushes

In his third instalment, Koto's creative director and co-founder James Greenfield shares some sage advice on how to grow a creative business with grace.

How Do You Grow a Creative Business?

SuperHi's content lead Faith McAllister chats to our founder, Rik Lomas, about our new Shaders for the Web short course.

Exploring Shaders for the Web with Rik

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to make an animated clown mask Instagram filter using Spark AR and Figma. 

How to Make an Animated Clown Mask Instagram Filter with Spark AR

From finding a co-founder to building your reputation and voice, James Greenfield shares some solid advice on how to set up a creative business - the right way.

How to Start a Creative Business: Setting Up for Success

Struggling to land a job in tech? SuperHi teacher Lou has compiled some handy resources and key tips to give you the best chance of getting hired.

How to Land Your First Job in Tech

It's time to demystify the mighty portable document format – and share some design tips that'll take yours to the next level.

What Actually is a PDF? (+ How to Design Better Ones)

Are you dreaming of starting up? Ask yourself these five vital questions every budding entrepreneur should consider before embarking on the journey.

Do You Really Want to Start a Creative Business?

Nika shows us how web accessibility can be part of the initial design process, rather than an afterthought.

How to Design with Web Accessibility in Mind

Nika offers advice to a creatively-deprived developer pondering a career change to product design.

Ask a Designer #12: Shall I Change My Career Path to Save My Creativity?

How much of life are we cropping out? Nika reflects on this vital question in a brief history of aspect ratios in tech.

What Gets Lost in the Crop? How Aspect Ratios Shape the Way We See the World

SuperHi's advice columnist and graphic designer Nika takes us through the journey of starting (and finishing) a personal design project.

Ask a Designer #11: How Do I Start a Side Project?

No clients? No worries! Nika shares her wisdom on how to create an impressive portfolio without any paid design work.

Ask a Designer #10: How Do I Create a Portfolio Without Any Real Client Work?

What does it mean to build a sustainable website? Nika spotlights two founders who are taking an eco approach.

How to Build a Greener Web

Nika offers some key tips for cracking into a crowded industry.

Ask a Designer #9: How Do I Break into Graphic Design?

It's time to talk about the fun behind the scenes work every business has to do.

How Freelance Designer Max Pete Thrives in Adminland

We chat to graphic designer Adam Ho on designing Abstract, a design version control tool

How Designer Adam Ho Blurs the Lines of Branding, Interaction and Art

What is internet art and what can designers learn from it?

Tales of Web 1.0: How Studying Net Art from the 90s Can Inform Design Today

We all have something that's unique about each of us and it’s important to be able to share that with our potential clients.

How to Stand Out With Your Story

On answering the dreaded..."what do you do?" question.

How to Explain What You Really Do, Graphic Designer Edition

Nika writes about how to keep up with the fast-changing tools in design.

Ask a Designer #8: How do I Keep Up With Changing Software and Jargon?

Today, Nika walks through what to do when you think it might be time to give up on your dream career.

Ask a Designer #7: How Do I Know When to Give Up on My Dream Career?

How American Brands are Using Graphic Design to Boost Voter Awareness

We chat to SuperHi's designer and art director André Cândido on his creative process as he worked through SuperHi's brand refresh.

How Designer André Cândido Is Setting Up SuperHi's Brand for Scale

We chat to designer Meg Lewis on how she's built a company based entirely on her personality.

How Designer Meg Lewis Combines Comedy and Performance with Her New Podcast

We chat to information designer Giorgia Lupi on how she manages her creative process, making Happy Data, and the book she's writing next.

How Information Designer Giorgia Lupi Works With Many Mediums, Many Projects

We chat to designer Anton Sten on working remotely, "dining together" with your team, and making Toast.

How UX Designer Anton Sten Works Remotely

Whether you design products or graphics, cultivating a creative practice is key to sharpening your skills and getting really good.

How to Get (And Stay!) Inspired as a Designer

What's the difference between a UX and a UI designer? What about graphic design vs digital design? 

Designing for the Web 101: The Truth About All the Different Roles You'll Come Across

What makes a good designer and could you be one? 

Can Anyone be a Good Designer?

We chat to designer Olivia Charlesworth on her journey as a freelancer, what she's learned, and what she's still learning.

How Designer Olivia Charlesworth Found Clients and Built a Network in a New City

We chat to designer Carolyn Zhang about all kinds of things, from what it took to make the leap, to her take on the future of freelancing, to what it means to make meaningful and creative work.

How Independent Digital Designer Carolyn Zhang Built Her Freelance Career

We chat to Lauren Hom about post-burnout career transition, burning out even when doing what you love, and getting comfortable with saying no.

How Letterer and Designer Lauren Hom Had Her Burnout Moment with Ravioli at 3am

We chat to creative technologist Matt Marshall about his career, from working on award-winning inventions to art installations to video games. 

How Creative Technologist Matt Marshall Built a Career from Theatre to VR/AR Design

We chat to type designer Troy Leinster about how he ended up in type design, the importance of continuing education and the experience of transitioning between disciplines.

How Hoefler & Co. Type Designer Troy Leinster Keeps Learning

Unlike a lot of creatives who'd often much prefer to do the work rather than lead it, Stewart Scott-Curran quite clearly a strategist and leader. It's in the way he thinks, the way he talks. 

How Loom's Brand Design Lead Stewart Scott-Curran Gets Strategic 

Meg tackles launching a fulfilling career in the creative fields, especially when you feel like an imposter.

Ask a Designer #6: How Do I Launch a Fulfilling, Creative Career?

Meg answers a question all entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be can relate to.

Ask a Designer #5: Should I Try to Do it All Myself?

Meg walks through how to land your first job, the one that seems so hard to get.

Ask a Designer #4: How Do I Land that First Breakthrough Design Job?

Meg talks about how to build a business that doesn't rely on millions of followers.

Ask a Designer #3: Is Passive Income Possible if I Don't Have a Lot of Followers?

Meg talks about how to set proper boundaries at work, even when it comes to your manager.

Ask a Designer #2: Help! My Manager Is Stressing Me Out

Meg gives us a lesson on personal branding in the creative world.

Ask a Designer #1: Does it Matter What I Call Myself?

Eric Hu is the global design director at Nike in Portland, Oregon. Previously he worked as the director of design at Ssense in Montreal.

How Nike's Global Design Director Eric Hu Manages Imposter Syndrome

Jennifer Daniel is the creative director for Google's emoji program. Previously, she was a graphics editor at the New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. 

How Creative Director Jennifer Daniel Manages Imposter Syndrome

The hosts of design podcast North v South talk to us about how to talk about design, the technical aspects of setting up a weekly show and how to score pies out of ten.

How North v South Started a Design Podcast

Carly Ayres talks to us about the path that led her to co-founding a creative studio, how practice makes perfect, and the rewards of learning in public.

How Writer and Strategist Carly Ayres Set Up a Creative Agency

Daniel Howells talks us through the past, present and future of the web design and what it takes to get your site featured on Siteinspire.

How Siteinspire's Daniel Howells Picks the Best Web Designs

Zach Inglis talks us through how he and his business partner Laura set up a design and tech conference with a little twist.

How Designer and Developer Zach Inglis Started a Design Conference

BONG International talk to us about how to work as a remote team, company independence, self initiated projects and how to work as designer-slash-developers.

How BONG International Gets Paid to Make Fun Websites

Going freelance is one of the scariest career moves you can make. But done well, it can make you better off, give you more freedom, and most importantly, make you happier.