State Your Purpose!

A few weeks ago my friend Greg, who has been working with Workhorse as a freelancer since we started the company, told me that he was applying to MFA design programs. I was excited for him, but als...

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Progressland

Progress was more than a promise in America's postWorld War II era — it was a vividly painted portrait of the future. Whether it was Westinghouse's "Home of the Future," Disney...

writing design

Branding and the Truth

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” — Buddha In the process of revising the Workhorse website, we’v...

The Future is Now

As the world collapses around us, my thoughts regarding technology, capitalism, and design have come more into focus, so I wanted to shar...

Working Remotely

It’s been interesting to see people that have never worked remotely be thrust into remote work all of a sudden because of the current hea...

First Things First 2000 at 20

Originally released in 1964, the First Things First manifesto rallied against design’s role in consumerism and called upon designers to b...