Hugo Hoppmann

Designer for Apple, Nike, Mugler, Salomon. Building PRESENT, support systems for Modern Makers. Writing weekly about fighting Resistance and doing the Thing.

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As a kid I drew hundreds of Chicago Bulls logos. First logo love.

Later came spray-paint designs for Counter-Strike on cracked Photoshop versions, my own clothing label as a teenager, and a visit with Adrian Frutiger at his house that decided everything: this craft would be my life.

The list twenty years later: Apple, Nike, Mugler, 032c. The Salomon logo I redesigned debuted at the Winter Olympics.

What the list doesn't show: I always had a hundred ambitions at once, and too often stood at the edge of burnout. The question that saved me became my life's work. How do we do our best work without postponing ourselves?

PRESENT is my answer. Founded in New York in 2016 as a print magazine, sold in 25+ countries today. Now it's a global community of Modern Makers, a weekly newsletter, a podcast, and an app called presentOS. Every two weeks we meet to get closer to our Favorite Unrealized Projects. Together.

I'm writing my first book, Do The Thing, and building the next version of presentOS.

Here I post Present Principles, stories from 20 years of craft, and the systems I build in public.

Make it so personal it becomes universal.
Welcome.

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Treat your creative craft like training. A bad day at the desk is just a bad training day. It doesn't mean you're a fraud.

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Action cures anxiety.

I’ve journaled daily for 15 years and it always comes back to this: clarity doesn’t arrive before you move. It arrives because you move.

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Start here → https://t.co/qtlYautOJO

[Hugo Hoppmann @hugohoppmann]

As a kid I drew hundreds of Chicago Bulls logos. First logo love.

Later came spray-paint designs for Counter-Strike on cracked Photoshop versions, my own clothing label as a teenager, and a visit with Adrian Frutiger at his house that decided everything: this craft would be my life.

The list twenty years later: Apple, Nike, Mugler, 032c. The Salomon logo I redesigned debuted at the Winter Olympics.

What the list doesn't show: I always had a hundred ambitions at once, and too often stood at the edge of burnout. The question that saved me became my life's work. How do we do our best work without postponing ourselves?

PRESENT is my answer. Founded in New York in 2016 as a print magazine, sold in 25+ countries today. Now it's a global community of Modern Makers, a weekly newsletter, a podcast, and an app called presentOS. Every two weeks we meet to get closer to our Favorite Unrealized Projects. Together.

I'm writing my first book, Do The Thing, and building the next version of presentOS.

Here I post Present Principles, stories from 20 years of craft, and the systems I build in public.

Make it so personal it becomes universal.
Welcome.

[Hugo Hoppmann @hugohoppmann]

@FramerAuth Apple OAuth pleaseee⚡️

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@osimijasur @paper @framer very nice, would love to try it out! thanks!

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@learnframer @framer SCAN – thank you!

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@learnframer @framer RIPPLE

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@learnframer @framer GENERATOR

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@learnframer @framer SAVE

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@learnframer @framer GLASS -- thank you!

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@learnframer @framer 💦

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@learnframer @framer CROSS — thank you!

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@learnframer @framer PATH – thanks!

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@DavidMcBacon @framer Great idea, David and congrats! (Interested!)

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@learnframer @framer PAPER —thank you!

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@learnframer @framer VAPOR (thank you!)