Advice by Rob Giampietro to designers getting ready to start their own studio:

1. An untended garden quickly becomes a field: plant what you want to grow.

2. Have partners, but don’t do the same things: make sure you both do something you enjoy.

3. Hire people for what they can teach you, not for what you can teach them.

4. Everyone should be able to take criticism: creative trust is built on critical honesty.

5. Design is only one part of the puzzle:…

swissmiss | Advice from Rob Giampietro

The best list of advice I’ve read in a while.