{"id":59656,"date":"2022-04-07T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=59656"},"modified":"2022-05-02T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:24:13","slug":"chris-do-the-futur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/chris-do-the-futur","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Loud Introvert: A Conversation with Chris Do, Creator of TheFutur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What a time to be a designer. <\/em>Whether you’re into product, interaction, motion, brand, or type design, the number of tools and opportunities available to us expands by the minute. The only certainty we have is change. Design’s impact is now widely recognized by organizations of all sizes, creating room for much-needed specialization. An environment like this calls for design educators: inspiring creative professionals with a deep desire to support others’ journeys. That’s where Chris Do and The Futur come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we’re talking to Emmy award-winning designer, director, and CEO Chris Do. You might recognize him from TheFutur, a platform with 1.93 million YouTube subscribers<\/a> and over 400,000 Instagram followers. Chris himself now reaches more than 800,000 creatives<\/a> through his personal Instagram account, where he shares the kind of design business advice we don’t hear very often. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us to learn more about this supremely talented creator who decided to switch sides from client work to design education and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Chris Do, tell us a little bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m a loud introvert on a mission to help a billion people make a living doing what they love. Recovering graphic designer, only child, father to two amazing boys, and husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>What got you started on this mission? How did you get inspired?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always enjoyed teaching but the one part I didn’t love is it’s not scalable<\/em>. Teaching is fairly limited in terms of access: it can be very expensive to get an art and design education. This is a challenge I\u2019ve always wanted to figure out because I do love teaching so much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2014, a college friend of mine, his name is Jose Caballer, said, “Let’s go make videos on YouTube.” I’m forty-two years old at this time, so it’s like, is this really what I want to be doing?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn’t YouTube full of really young people who have a lot of charisma? And who really wants to hear from a forty-two-year-old man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, you know, Jose was very insistent, so we wound up making videos and dropped our first one in January 2014. It was a rough start for me. Because I’m an introvert, I don’t really want to be on camera, and speaking to no one in the room is even worse than speaking to someone. Doing that you eventually get a little better, and the decision to go on YouTube changed the course of my life and my business. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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