Austin Design Week is running from November 4-8 this year, and it promises to be better than ever. We’re always eager for a week’s worth of events that educate and bring the design community together, and that is precisely what this year’s schedule does. But where will we be, you ...more +
5 years ago
Haley opened the new project request, but saw so much white space that she mistook it for the blank template and immediately closed it. “Hey Paul,” Lois said a minute later, “Can we add a minimum-character requirement on the online form? Why even have all those fields if this is ...more +
5 years ago
It wasn’t all that many years ago, as a baby writer with no clips to my name, that I dreamed of the problem I have now: How can I best showcase the work I’ve done? It’s so much easier, it seems, for designers – for those with a visual eye. ...more +
5 years ago
Another RuNT Austin has come and gone, but this time, we had wine! Our amazing sponsors this event included Infinite Monkey Theorem wine, Via313 pizza, and Brew & Brew, the greatest host in town. Sipping on beverages and snacking on pizza allowed for the perfect setting to learn about the ...more +
5 years ago
Cindy arrived in an Uber. She thanked the driver, stepped onto the sidewalk with her right foot, not her left. She had inherited a new superstition. A character in a book did it once so now she had to do it too. Such was another consequence of bearing a creative ...more +
5 years ago
As Bethenny Frankel from The Real Housewives of New York once said, “Opinions are like assholes. We all have them.” I have to say (and it’s not the first time), I side with Bethenny! Picture this: you’re standing in a corner at a holiday party. You’re chewing a huge piece ...more +
5 years ago
Hey, we’ve all been there. You meet someone new at an event or maybe through friends of friends. Through conversation, you learn that you have so much in common with this new person — like, you both love all of the illustration elements of Starbucks’ Reserve line and you are ...more +
5 years ago
It’s nice to be back on this amazing list. For the last 9 years, there has been one constant theme with M+P (aside from Happy Hours): growth. We grew a lot, Inc. Magazine noticed, and they once again put us on their America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, aka the Inc. ...more +
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