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Pride, Work and Necessity of Side Projects: Designers Rashi Birla and Nicklesh Soni share Photo Essays about Their Wanderlust

What are you working on—on the side?

Found Nouns is our discovery of the people, places and things along our travels. We use a combination of photos and words to create photo essays that share those discoveries. Sometimes, they are very specific, about a person or a favorite meal, and other times can be about several days in a region or city.

How do you manage to work
on your side project(s)?

We spend so much our time traveling taking photos and journaling, that focusing our creative energy on Fo...

Pride, Work and Necessity of Side Projects: Stationery Enthusiast April Wu Explores the World through Urban Journaling

What are you working on—on the side?

My side project, Penguins Creative, evolved from my doodling habit since high school. I was always drawing little illustrations of penguins and my daily life. In 2014, I committed to a one-day-a-page journal since 2014 called the Hobonichi Techo. In this journal, I would doodle, sketch, paint and utilize crafting materials to document adventures and explorations from my daily life. From this process, I’ve cultivated a formidable following of friends and aud...

Graphic Novelist Meags Fitzgerald is Building a Self-Fulfilling Career from Scratch

Illustrator and Art Director Meags Fitzgerald’s output in drawing and publishing is tremendous, including the nonfiction graphic novel “Photobooth: A Biography” and a fantastic series showcasing her ambidrawing talents. Here, she tells more about carving her creative work lifestyle—her way.

How did you arrive at desiring to become an artist
who makes her art her life’s work?

This was always the dream for me, and I never seriously considered doing anything else. Everyone else in my family we...

Pride, Work and Necessity of Side Projects: Product Designer Avalon Hu Reunites with the Art of Illustration

What are you working on—on the side?

I liked doing illustrations since I was a kid, and picked it back up as a hobby from time to time. But, life happens, and my attention was needed elsewhere as an adult—I was never able to fully dedicate time to illustrating and push this hobby forward. At the beginning of this year, I decided to set a goal to invest in my illustration skills and be more serious about it.

I heard about the 100-day project created by Elle Luna a while ago, but never did it. Wh...

Eager to Make Ideas Happen: Rachel Happen Brings Her Dancer’s Sensibilities to Business

Rachel Happen built a professional bridge from her roots in dancing to the domain of business. Here, she elaborates on the choreography of her multidisciplinary career that carries two distinctive skill sets.

From ballet to modern dancing, wow! How did you become passionate about dancing?

I started dancing at such a young age that can’t really remember the process of falling in love with moving. It’s been a constant for me. I would say, more than moving to music, I’ve always been fascinated wit...

Pride, Work and Necessity of Side Projects: Illustrator Liz Fosslien and Designer Mollie West Duffy Advocate Emotion at Work

What are you working on—on the side?

Our side project is an illustrated book (working title: No Hard Feelings) that aims to make it OK to acknowledge emotion at work. The problem with the idea that emotion does not exist at work is that humans experience emotion constantly, independent of time, location or task. Of course, there are large differences in how individuals react to emotion, but emotion itself cannot be turned off. More importantly, emotions can serve as valuable guideposts for dec...

From Comics to Video Games: Freelance Illustrator and Programmer Alicia Feng Keeps Herself Grounded by Making Art

The visual compositions and sheer prolific output of Alicia Feng’s artwork, straddling between classical forms and those enriching the visible language of comics, got my attention. Here, she elaborates on her drawing and illustrating habits, in addition to the uplifting value of having an audience.

I happen to encounter randomly this pattern of medical students going into the arts. What compelled you to leave pre-med to your current creative destination as an illustrator and front-end develope...

Pride, Work and Necessity of Side Projects: Designer Matthew Wyne Illustrates the History of Cocktails through Lettering

What are you working on—on the side?

This January, I started Letters & Liquor, a blog that illustrates the history of cocktails. I chose 52 drinks that show how our concept of cocktails has changed over the past 300 years and I post one each week. The posts include a short essay, recipes, a photo of the drink, and then I illustrate the name of the cocktail in a period-inspired style. As a graphic designer, lettering is my specialty, and when I fell in love with cocktails a few years back,...

Taking the typical hiring approach to an experiential level: CFO Abby Cheesman and CEO Elena Valentine of Skill Scout

Abby Cheesman (left) and Elena Valentine (right) co-founded Skill Scout, whose mission is to transform conventional recruiting into a less opaque and paint-by-numbers process by way of “experiential hiring” as they coined it. Here, Elena elaborates on her and Abby’s ambitions for their company to become an energizing force in the human resources industry.

Upon discovering Skill Scout in 2014 (Congratulations on three years!), my reaction: A very different take on hiring. Does this initial impr...

Taking the typical hiring approach to an experiential level: CEOs Abby Cheesman and Elena Valentine of Skill Scout

Abby Cheesman (left) and Elena Valentine (right) co-founded Skill Scout, whose mission is to transform conventional recruiting into a less opaque and paint-by-numbers process by way of “experiential hiring” as they coined it. Here, Elena elaborates on her and Abby’s ambitions for their company to become an energizing force in the human resources industry.

Upon discovering Skill Scout in 2014 (Congratulations on three years!), my reaction: A very different take on hiring. Does this initial impr...