Sam Chapman

My latest edit for @designertom is out now! A deep dive into @ridd_design and how he has become one of the most fascinating tastemakers in the design world Incredible work by an incredible team to get this over the line and steered masterfully by @designertom 🔥 check it out

Measuring velocity of designers is absolute bullsh*" says @sravienna, CDO at @metalab Speed isn't about cutting corners. It's about building trust. The faster you demonstrate momentum, the more goodwill you earn. And that goodwill buys you the space for quality work. Her team uses "Tarantinos": Play out the end of the movie fast, throw everything at the wall, kill your darlings. 80% won't work. But you need space to find the 20% that becomes magic. Full interview: youtu.be/nuVCTOwUS-Y

He's been designing for 25+ years, and his work is an example of pushing tools further. You're familiar with @mrblackstudio. His stack is Figma, Framer, Midjourney, ChatGPT. That's it. Lee is one of my favorite designer’s of recent memory, and this is one of my favorite convos. New State of Play is up.

I have the distinct pleasure of starting to work with @editedbysam on some stuff for @toolbenders. Really excited to work with such a skilled editor/director. Though after recording this OBS setup test for him to verify, I'm not sure that feeling is going to continue to be mutual

@kylezantos @toolbenders if anything, we've been bonded for life through this

New State of Play with @eschadiol from @perplexity_ai. She made those @comet invitations that looked hand-crafted but scaled to 10k+ unique outputs. Trained her own models to pull it off. Also runs a record label on the side. Uses AI to demo ideas to producers, then works with them to make the real thing. We got into how Perplexity’s design team actually works, and why prompting isn't a gimmick skill. Full episode on YouTube.

Designers have regularly been sending me some really cool things they're creating. So I asked you to send me short video walking through your tool usage. Show me what you built and how you built it. It's pretty incredible to see how you guys are building with these tools. @Luvnits created a graffiti ink tool using Figma Make. He took a physics approach to making sure the ink-bleed was realistic and variable. @victoria_framer used @floraai and @framer to test ideas faster than I've seen anyone move. @fw3d rebuilt a @contra branding effect in @hiunicornstudio just to understand how it worked. If you're into this kind of stuff, first episode is live now. Send me your work, I want to see how you made it. youtube.com/watch?v=R8imeW…

15 podcasts cut in 7 days... @designertom YT is going into the new year with a stack of fresh content 👀

So we got our first 100k+ video on @designertom YouTube channel and I couldn't be prouder. The team came together with long shifts, making tweaks right till an hour before release and all that hard work paid off. I love my job 🏆

This is worth your time 🍿

I've spent the year studying how designers are exploring. Then the @karrisaarinen vs. @ryolu_ debate kicked off, and it captured everything I've been seeing this year. I sat down to write a 60 second video about it. 6 hours later I'd written something more. Reasonable hyperbole: this was the most important convo in design this year. Featuring: - @steveruizok - @asallen - @mrblackstudio - @floguo - @raunofreiberg - @weberwongwong - @tomjohndesign - @stephenhaney - @basementstudio - @samraaj

Team is stacked going into 2026: Design, dev, video production and a great network of film crew excited to show up when we need them. We talk all day about "taste" in craft. But when you have great taste in people and talent, really cool things happen. It's a big theme in my upcoming episode with Colin & Samir. Shoutouts to the Enjoyers Studio team that believes in this chaotic little mission: @legendofbern @editedbysam @agustineguia @adnastu @AlexAperios @kylezantos @laurilllll And a huge thank you to our partners in crime: @JKaplan1 + @benjamweiss and the rest of the @smoothmedia_ team for flexing with our moonshots and helping us get there.

Tommy crushed this. His team followed us around for a few days this summer. Impressed by his storytelling + the editing and motion graphics on this are nuts. We filmed ~6mo ago but it feels like a lifetime. Iverson’s grown and matured, but we still have so far to go.

If you are a designer who: 1. Has recently created something dope (visually impressive, real or experimental) 2. Wants to be spotlighted in a video 3. Can get me some BTS assets by end of next week (looms walking through the files, list of tools used, throwaway iterations, etc) Then hit me up. I’d like to feature you, spotlight your process, and share your work with my audience across socials and newsletter. I’ve heard this has been helpful in getting designers more clients and new jobs, and I want to start doing it more meaningfully.

Grateful for support like this made possible by our @enjoyersmedia team: @legendofbern @adnastu @agustineguia @editedbysam Go check out the newest video.

@steve_hayes @designertom @aesopsolo @soren_iverson @agustineguia Really appreciate it Steve 👊🏻

@designertom @aesopsolo @soren_iverson @editedbysam @agustineguia Can’t give high enough praise for the editing 🙇‍♂️

Some people make noise on the internet for the sake of noise. But @soren_iverson knows how to make it mean something. This is how the Weird Al of tech turned his absurdity into a world-class design agency. Full episode on YouTube.

Another episode for @designertom is live! This was a real eye-opener of an episode to edit, seeing how @soren_iverson s team get sh*t done and get it done fast! Designers, this is a must watch!

This was my first original episode I shot from my series "This is Taste". It was delayed. Rewritten 4 times. @soren_iverson and his agency @iverson have built a world-class studio using absurdity as a design tool. You're gonna dig this one. Tomorrow at 7AM PST

@ridd_design @designertom Thanks Ridd, it was a pleasure to tell your story 👊🏻

@editedbysam @designertom You absolutely crushed it 🙇

My latest edit for @designertom is out now! A deep dive into @ridd_design and how he has become one of the most fascinating tastemakers in the design world Incredible work by an incredible team to get this over the line and steered masterfully by @designertom 🔥 check it out

Should this exist? Watch it here: youtu.be/mD3Q2fYmaMA