Plunge into the weird and wonderful world of design 🦞
Design Lobster brings surprising insights from the world of design straight to your inbox every two weeks on Mondays. Whether you’re a design-curious amateur or a pro, Design Lobster will expand your mind and make your next design idea a more creative one 🧠
Design Lobster is for you if:
You’re keen to develop your design eye
You love learning about wacky design from across the world
You’re interested in ideas, and the intersection of design and culture
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What People Say
I love Design Lobster for its concise format, its oddball sensibility, and its good-natured curiousness about the world around it. Ben works as a designer in his day job, and his essays are the product of a practitioner at work. If you’re interested in design, or are simply looking for a thought-provoking mental health break in your inbox, I can’t recommend it enough.
— Casey Newton, journalist & creator of Platformer
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— Scott Berkun, designer and author of How Design Makes the World
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— Hugo Cornejo, Cofounder at Packfleet, former VP of Design at Monzo
About Me
My name is Ben Strak and I work as a Product designer. I’m currently based in Brooklyn bringing the UK digital bank Monzo to the USA. Before getting stuck into pixels, I studied and worked in the world of architecture. I’m here to share my excitement about the history and future of design with you every week. Plus the odd lobster 😜
In Summary
Whatever you do, keep discovering. 🦞
Ben
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