Passing the Baton: One Final Podcast Episode about Closing Design*Sponge & Good Company
This year has been full of big professional decisions. The first was deciding it was the right time to close Design*Sponge ? and then figuring out how we’d like that to go and feel. The second was realizing that, despite our best efforts and love and hard work, it was time to step away from Good Company […]
This year has been full of big professional decisions. The first was deciding it was the right time to close Design*Sponge ? and then figuring out how we’d like that to go and feel. The second was realizing that, despite our best efforts and love and hard work, it was time to step away from Good Company as well. It was far from an easy decision, but it was one made from a place of love, understanding, and experience in knowing how much bandwidth it would take to make the magazine as profitable as it needs to be ? and knowing that I just don’t have that bandwidth in me right now. The closing of both creative projects has been a bittersweet time, full of ups and downs and feelings of doubt, but also peace with it all. And when it came to Good Company, I couldn’t figure out the right way to sum it all up in one single post or social media update. On the one hand it was a reminder of just how hard it is to make print profitable enough to stay afloat (while also paying people fair wages for their work), but it was also a reminder of how sometimes projects can teach you so much, even if they don’t go the way you planned.
So rather than s...
This year has been full of big professional decisions. The first was deciding it was the right time to close Design*Sponge ? and then figuring out how we’d like that to go and feel. The second was realizing that, despite our best efforts and love and hard work, it was time to step away from Good Company as well. It was far from an easy decision, but it was one made from a place of love, understanding, and experience in knowing how much bandwidth it would take to make the magazine as profitable as it needs to be ? and knowing that I just don’t have that bandwidth in me right now. The closing of both creative projects has been a bittersweet time, full of ups and downs and feelings of doubt, but also peace with it all. And when it came to Good Company, I couldn’t figure out the right way to sum it all up in one single post or social media update. On the one hand it was a reminder of just how hard it is to make print profitable enough to stay afloat (while also paying people fair wages for their work), but it was also a reminder of how sometimes projects can teach you so much, even if they don’t go the way you planned.
So rather than s...
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