
We all know that beautifully plain is rather special.
I'm Nicholas. A designer living in Omaha, NE.

We all know that beautifully plain is rather special.

Before an advertisement showed up on the sidebar of Facebook urging you to become a graphic designer and attend an online university. Before it was cool, hip, or trendy. Before it became about selling yourself instead of ideas. Before dressing like a graphic designer existed.

It feels like we’ve been here before. Function and form. Clarity and vagueness. This and that.

It’s hard to accept and sad to realize, but design is definitely at that point.

The legend Wim Crouwel finally makes it on the blog.

Stop complaining and feel flattered.

What he said.

If you know a great designer, then you know how insane they are/can be.

Change for the sake of change is wrong. Going against change for the sake of no change is also wrong.

I designed a button for AIGA Nebraska’s One Inch Round competition a few years ago that all of this reminds me of.

Number thirty. Milton stops by for the milestone.

I can’t pass it up.

Steve and Jonathan, for the win.

I like that he’s almost always wearing a plan colored gray shirt.

It’s only right to include Dieter Rams in this, even if it’s just the visual.

Color does not mean colorful. Brilliant.

Absolutely.

You, sir, are a damn fool.

Hello, Jessica. You don’t know me, but I think you’re fucking adorable.

I’m drifting somewhere right now.

Peter, put a shirt on. We have company.

Electricians are pretty important as well, you know, since I’m on the internet right now.

He’s talking to you, internet.

Number seven, with a, err…ellipsis. No bullets allowed.

Your gut instinct may not be the solution, but it’ll get you there.

We learn just as much from criticism as we do from praise.

Just be happy where you are.

I wonder if there has been someone who hated each thing I’ve done. Not one person who hated all of it, but at least one person who hated each thing.

This guy. This guy knows what he’s talking about.

If there is one thing I plan on doing in my design career, it’s attempting to work harder than anyone else.