Who gets an irresistible urge to paint just a few weeks before a major book deadline? That's right: me ✌️

Learn to create characters so alive with personality and backstory, they almost have their own Tinder profile. 

Luis Mendo is a Spanish graphic designer, illustrator and comic artist, who has spent most of his professional career in The Netherlands and Japan. After several years working in magazine design for agencies in the Netherlands, he switched to making illustrations, which can be found on...

Where I use Whitman's words to illustrate my drawings and our protean (ever-shifting, hard to pin down) existence.

Where does this need for identifying, labeling, branding and classifying ourselves come from? Maybe the world would be better without it? Never use questions on headlines, glad this is an intro.

MundoMendo members were so excited of me doing a podcast, that I had to at least try.

A handpicked selection of illustration talent, chosen by Luis Mendo.

We go deep into the story of Taiwan. How a tiny island escaped demise, chartered a course from colonial subjugation through mass Barbie production and into the tech…

Virtual Memories Show 677: Luis Mendo “Mundo Mendo is like the world of Mendo. It’s my world, and you need a spaceship to arrive here.” Welcome to Mundo Mendo! I visited artist an…

I was fortunate enough to have a little bike accident the other day: it made me reflect on some things which are going to stay concealed on this piece, but I hope the incident helps you do some reflection of your own. Be water, my friends.

Cautionary tales from eight battle-tested creatives about the client catastrophes that nearly broke them, and the hard-won wisdom that got them through.

Sometimes, discovering the context and life of an artist is more important than discovering their art itself. Frédéric Dard is a good example.

Spanish illustrator Luis Mendo on Japan, building Mundo Mendo, finding the value in your work, and creating something that outlives you.

A checklist of things I consider when designing a character.

Where we get to talk to Buddhasugi, one of the oldest trees in Japan.

Create what you want in a world full of distractions

Handsome Provisions is a carefully curated print shop from the team behind one of illustration's most celebrated agencies. And it's the perfect place to find art that will genuinely transform your...

Episode 171 of the Design Better Podcast

Explaining Mundo Mendo is harder than one would think.

I was so happy today to learn that when we die, we become minuscule dust specks: carbon, oxygen, iron, calcium and other stuff. The stuff that forms stars.

In a world filled with very convenient but cruelly ugly things, nostalgia is where we find magic.

My youngest daughter will start school in two weeks and I am terrified.

An open-hearted take on how I ended up using LLMs to do the boring work.

The Membership Program of Luis Mendo

A free collection of interactive tools and resources. From bookkeeping and tax prep to writing tricky client emails, it’s your small business spirit guide.

London and New York agency DNCO partners with Victory Group to transform Zuidas into ‘Zudo’, a bold new identity.

Substack to make it easier than ever to gamble on anything