Issue 02
An in-depth interview with design legend Brijan Powell, create your own inspiration site with our new cloneable, and celebrating our 150th post.
Welcome to the second issue of the Footer newsletter — a collection of bottom-up content for your feed.
In this issue: an in-depth interview with design legend Brijan Powell, create your own inspiration site with our new cloneable, and celebrating our 150th post.
See you at the bottom.
Your Next Inspiration Site
It's your turn to create the next inspiration site and we've given you everything you need to start your own. Clone this website and launch your inspo niche this year.
Features:
Dark Mode/Light Mode controlled by variables.
Automatically pulls favicons into posts.
Automatically includes styles and tags. - We provided the template for image sizes for you.
From Benten Woodring, Matt Cram, and Devin Fountain, with love. Good luck.
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Interview 02
Exclusive Interview with Brijan Powell
Brijan Powell is a graphic designer based in Salt Lake City UT, with a strong focus on traditional graphic design, creating campaigns, brands, typefaces, and websites for clients large and small. He has worked with brands like Nike, Red Bull, Apple, Twitch, Disney, Netflix and many others.
Featured Footer: Fabio Carretti
You can find him on Instagram at Powell_Studio and on X at @brijanp. You can see more of his work at powell-studio.com.
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Brijan Powell: I'm Brian Powell. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. And I'm a graphic designer. That's what I do for money.
Devin Fountain: My first question is, it's more of like a whole statement you're known on Twitter as being quite a contentious person. Some would even call you a troll or a shit poster, if you prefer that.
Tell me a little bit about your social presence there. Like, what is it that you're trying to do, or is it just you being yourself?
Brijan Powell: I mean, I'm just having fun. I'm bored. I I work by myself all day, every day. It's like a way to start a conversation, you know, like if you ever hung out with like your guy friends and you're just like giving each other shit, it's kind of like that, you know?
It's funny to me that people get so upset about it, you know, because just like. You're online. You know, somebody is eventually going to come along and it's a bit like for no reason, like it's just going to happen. And you know what I mean? Like sometimes I just think it's funny. Sometimes I just am bored.
Sometimes like I'm genuinely just trying to like get someone to think a little bit differently, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, it's like, it's never really for the same reason. It's always kind of like, where am I at that day, like sometimes I'm like, Oh, today's a great day. And I kind of just want to have a conversation.
So I'm going to start like a little argument. Some days I'm like, I hate all of these designers, they're all idiots. So I'm just going to fucking give them shit. You know, like there, there's many, many reasons why I get a little wild on Twitter. And honestly, sometimes it's mostly just because I'm like, this is so boring.
These people talk about the exact same thing over and over. And it's just not interesting. Like let's, let's like do something interesting, you know, like that's what we do for a living is something interesting. So let's actually pretend like interesting people, you know?
Featured Submitter: Ridd
Ridd is the creator of Figma Academy and the host of the Deep Dives podcast where he learns from interesting designers. Previously he was the founding designer at Maven and now he's figuring out what it looks like to work for himself 😅
You can find him on X at @ridd_design
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Submissions to date: 06
Favorite Footer: Otter
Favorite place for inspiration: Twitter (recently Oguz's page)
Overheard on Twitter
The footer is the nightlife of the website design... It's where we can all cut loose and get a little wild.
- @ezsmith397
Celebrating our 150th Post
We recently hit 150 footer posts over on the website. Hard to believe we’ve already curated and posted so many incredible footers.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far. We’re excited to see what’s next.
Developer’s Log
Footer v1.0.6
Added sponsored posts from @carbonads
If you block the ads, you'll see a message about how sad we are that you did that. We're not mad, just disappointed.
Press
Identity Designed #008 (on Substack
)From the archives
A roundup of some of our favorite footers in recent weeks
Footer 056: Echo Studio
A branding studio for early-stage companies and ideas.
Footer 055: Faculty
Websites (and apps) for new opportunities, adapting to change, and pure fun. Faculty strategizes, designs, and builds to support your success now — and in the future.
Footer 054: Graciano Illustration Portfolio
Independent artist specialized in fashion illustration. Currently based in Madrid, Spain.
Footer 053: Rows
More powerful than a spreadsheet and more flexible than a reporting tool, Rows is where modern teams build, use and share beautiful spreadsheets.
Footer 052: Contact Studios
The easiest way to grow sales with SEO.
Footer 051: Diego
I help clients around the world creating more engaging experiences through design, motion, and Webflow.
See the full archive here.
That’s a wrap for Issue 02
We are intermittently working on the next issue and are looking forward to share more of what we’ve been working on.
Until then, we’ll be posting new footers daily on the site and over on Twitter.
- Benten, Devin, and Matt
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