Building a design career when the economy is against you

A photo from Unsplash meant to represent the vague symbolism of post-it notes, included because designers so often use them for planning. What’s especially interesting is how post-it notes come with a sticky surface, but here they’re pinned to a board. Really makes you think.

It’s 2023, soon to be 2024. Inflation remains higher than The Fed would like it to be, and their aggressive efforts to fix inflation are quite purposefully breaking down the US economy.

As Jerome Powell has stated, the Fed’s method to get inflation (gauged by “Core Inflation”) back to the level they’d like to see involves a reduction in spending by way of destroying…