Design

— Dear Young Designer, Part II 2025·11·04 1 min — Embracing Friction 2025·01·13 5 min — The secret behind inspiration 2024·06·26 5 min — Das Gesamtkunstwerk 2024·06·21 5 min — Does it FEEL right? 2024·06·10 4 min — The books I loved 2024·05·22 6 min — What is quality anymore? 2023·11·21 2 min — How to create free press for your work 2023·10·30 4 min — "Good things come to those who wait." 2023·10·25 2 min — The best designers are artists 2023·01·10 2 min — What makes me a designer? 2022·11·29 2 min — When did our tools become our religion? 2022·09·06 1 min — On finding your niche 2022·03·30 2 min — Give me the boring design jobs 2022·03·03 3 min — Where are our design heroes? 2022·02·21 4 min — Where are our design heroes? — DESK of van Schneider — Edition Nr.204Members only 2022·02·14 5 min — An unsolicited portfolio review featuring creative practice, With Conviction 2022·02·04 3 min — Beautiful portfolios launched with Semplice in January 2022 2022·01·31 2 min — Semplice awards the 12 best portfolios of 2021 2022·01·25 1 min — The most-read DESK articles of 2021 2021·12·20 4 min — Design in Australia 🇦🇺 featuring Thought & Found 2021·12·08 6 min — Semplice Black Friday – the only deal we do all year 2021·11·24 3 min — 5 favorite Semplice features you might have missed 2021·11·08 5 min — A place for everything and everything in its place: How I use mymind as a designer 2021·11·05 4 min — Flag mockups that embody designing with pride 2021·10·25 1 min — Home devices don’t have to be ugly 2021·09·30 1 min — Business card design: A rite of passage for any designer 2021·09·16 1 min — You can become a designer in 9 months – without leaving your current job 2021·09·15 4 min — Why studios and agencies love building their sites with Semplice 2021·09·03 3 min — How to instantly elevate your UX & UI designs 2021·09·01 1 min — Beautiful online portfolios launched in August 2021 2021·08·31 2 min — Little portfolio tricks for new designers 2021·08·23 6 min — The case against portfolio templates 2021·08·18 3 min — Passive designer phrases we should eliminate from our vocabulary 2021·08·11 4 min — 7 pieces of portfolio advice from 7 years of running Semplice 2021·08·04 3 min — How I use mymind on a daily basis 2021·07·27 3 min — The experienced designer's unsaid rules for getting work done 2021·07·21 3 min — The counterintuitive phrase that changed how I work 2021·07·09 4 min — How to make a 3D design portfolio in 15 minutes with Carbonmade 2021·07·06 4 min — Dear young designer 2021·07·05 2 min — The best online portfolios of June 2021 2021·07·01 2 min — Finally, fresh color combinations for your visual projects 2021·06·16 1 min — Foundry Milieu Grotesque on the “fun, fast and then painful” practice of creating typeface systems 2021·06·09 8 min — It's not a small world after all: Month two of my HOVS apprenticeship 2021·06·04 3 min — Beautiful typography portfolios built with Semplice 2021·06·02 3 min — Beginners know something experts don't 2021·05·27 3 min — Beauty for beauty's sake: Let your soul wander the "Three Rooms" digital museum 2021·05·24 2 min — "Mock Reality" is a collection of beautiful backdrops for your portfolio case studiesMembers only 2021·04·19 2 min