Dear Design Student

Advice on design from people who work for a living

design and data

100% Clever, 0% Hired

Resumés are communication documents that gain nothing from the addition of sparkles, graphs, and your little big data
Balance between ethics and profits

A Designer’s Code of Ethics

A designer is first and foremost a human being
By Mike Monteiro
July 5, 2017
fixing the status quo

What If We Get Through This?

By Mike Monteiro
July 26, 2017
books

Summer Reading

By Rachel Berger
May 31, 2017
feedback all the time

Feedback Is Not an Option

By John Warren Hanawalt
May 18, 2017
A shop

Lessons We Accidentally Learned While Running a Design Shop

By Mike Monteiro
April 17, 2017
facing feedback

Finding the Positive in Negative Feedback

By John Warren Hanawalt
April 11, 2017
job searching

You Are Not Your Job Search

By Greg Storey
April 9, 2017
paying rent?

Ethics and Paying Rent

By Mike Monteiro
March 29, 2017
choose

Ethics Can’t Be a Side Hustle

By Mike Monteiro
March 19, 2017
a multicultural world

How To Fight Fascism

By Mike Monteiro
November 30, 2016