Matthew Buchanan portrait by Photobooth SF

About the author

I’m a designer and practitioner of fine typography in Auckland, New Zealand. I co-founded a design and development studio, Cactuslab, in 2001, and a social network for film fans, Letterboxd, in 2011. I design themes for Tumblr, speak occasionally about web techniques and typography, and think up reasons to visit New York City.

Matthew Buchanan

Posted on Thursday, 27 October 2016

Straight talk from Zendesk’s chief creative officer Toke Nygaard on this week’s rebrand and accompanying design system:

Now, selling this crap internally is an art form in its own right. A lot of people joined [Zendesk] because they saw themselves in the bubbly buddha character and were not prepared to give that up for some artsy, faux mid-century Bauhaus shit. Luckily for us, all of our founding fathers agreed it was time for a radical change—working for a truly design-appreciative company sometimes does have its benefits!

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