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Gabi, founder of TDC, shares insights on the design industry, how to deliver great design in a business led world through influence, strategy, and leadership.
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Our First TDC Coffee Chat Was SO Good! ☕ (opens the original)
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There’s something really cool about getting a group of design leaders together and giving them space to just talk.No presentations. No polished talking points. No pressure to have all the answers.Just real conversations with people who understand what it means to lead design today.<div class="image2
6 Things I Look For as a Candidate:The Interview Goes Both Ways: (opens the original)
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If there is one thing I have done my fair share of, it’s interviewing.I’ve interviewed for years for companies like Hallmark, Ford, P&G, Kellogg’s, Kimberly-Clark, and a number of agencies I’ve honestly lost count of.I’ve been on both sides of the table enough to understand the perspective from both sides.In my last article, I broke down what I looked for as a hiring manager. In this article, I want to flip the table and talk about what I did to be successful as the candidate AND what I looked f
What Design Hiring Managers Are REALLY Looking For (opens the original)
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Today’s job market can feel a little like a game of roulette. You just don’t know what you’re going to get. And that goes for both sides of the equation: hiring and interviewing.Hiring managers are trying to combat AI-generated answers during increasingly virtual interviews. Candidates are trying to navigate jack-of-all-trades job descriptions and the constant debate over whether they should position themselves as a generalist or a specialist. (Two terms I’m starting to hate and have mostly elim
Guest Austin Dunbar - Gab Design with Gabi Podcast (opens the original)
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What if the things we build are actually building us?In this episode of Gab Design with Gabi, I’m joined by Austin Dunbar, Founder & CEO of Durham Studio and Co-Founder of Wenzel Distillery.Austin has spent the past twelve years branding companies across sport, hospitality, spirits, real estate, community development and more. But his real interest isn’t simply what we create. It’s what the process of creating it asks of us, and who we become along the way.We talk about t
Why the September Job Surge Can Be Your Advantage (opens the original)
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Stop Polishing Your Resume: Why Strategic Positioning Is the Real Key to the September Job SurgeWhen professionals decide it’s time to make a career move, the reflex is almost universal: go into full creation mode. You start tweaking resume fonts, updating portfolio artifacts, and obsessing over your LinkedIn header.It feels productive. It feels like momentum.However, this rush to touch up design and bullet points ignores two critical realities: the macro-rhythms of the job market and the fundam
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