Designers and makers in their own words

Teaching to See is a film portrait of Inge Druckrey, the Swiss-trained graphic designer and teacher, shared on Edward Tufte's channel. It follows her teaching of how to look closely and build design from the fundamentals of form and visual perception.

The first of three parts of an interview with graphic designer Paul Rand. He talks about his design decisions, logos and the worth of his own trade.

Milton Glaser, the graphic designer behind the I Love NY logo, talks about the fear of failure in a 2011 session for Teachers College. He speaks from a long career about how designers and creative people deal with fear and risk.

Susan Kare, designer of the original Macintosh icons and typefaces, talks about icons and design in an event from the Letterform Archive. She discusses her approach to making small pictograms and her career.

Designer Mike Monteiro of Mule Design gives a talk at the Y Oslo conference built around how to draw an orange. He uses it to talk about the practice of design.

Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister gives a TED talk on taking time off from work. He describes closing his design studio for a year every seven years and argues the break feeds the creative work that follows.

10 Bullets is a video by artist Tom Sachs laying out the working principles of his studio, a set of rules for how to work, care for tools and treat others. It is known in part for the principle Always Be Knolling.

A clip of Ira Glass on the gap between taste and skill in creative work. Beginners have good taste, so they can see their own work falls short, and he says the only way through is to produce a large volume of work. In the clip he also plays and critiques one of his old broadcasts.

A short spoken video from Ze Frank, a few minutes long, about the anxiety of starting something new and the permission to begin. It is a pep talk for anyone about to make anything.

Darius Kazemi, the bot maker behind Reverse OCR, gives a satirical XOXO 2014 talk in the form of success advice from a lottery winner. The joke makes the point that advice from people who made it usually confuses luck with method, and it separates advice on how to win from advice on how to buy more tickets.

Skateboarder Rodney Mullen's TED talk on innovation. He talks about how skateboard tricks are invented and shared, and compares the culture of skating, with its trespassing and collaborative building on each other's ideas, to hacking and open-source communities.

Neil Gaiman's 2012 commencement speech at the University of the Arts. He talks to arts graduates about making a creative career, learning as he went, and how to keep making work.

Writer Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, gives a TED talk on the pressure of creative work and the idea that genius is something that visits you rather than something you are. She draws on ancient ideas of daemons and muses to argue for a less anxious relationship with creativity.

Merlin Mann's Webstock 2011 talk about fear and how it holds people back from making and finishing things. He speaks to creative and tech workers about the anxiety that drives procrastination.

A short message from Brian Eno urging people not to get a job. He talks about creative communities, which he calls scenius, and mentions universal basic income.

Ed Catmull, president of Pixar, speaks at Stanford's business school about how Pixar runs its creative teams. He talks about learning from success, surfacing problems early and keeping crises small.

Designer and illustrator Pablo Stanley gives a talk for Awwwards whose title argues that the more you fake it, the more successful you can be. It is a talk about creative careers and confidence.

Chris Do of The Futur lectures on value-based pricing for designers, the case for charging by the value of the work rather than by the hour. It is aimed at freelancers and studios deciding how to price their design services.