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# The Futur — Complete Content Reference

> The Futur is an online education platform founded by Chris Do that helps creative professionals make a living doing what they love. This document provides detailed information about all courses, free resources, content topics, and educational offerings.

## Organization

- **Name**: The Futur™
- **Founded by**: Chris Do — Emmy award-winning designer, brand strategist, and educator
- **Mission**: To teach 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love
- **Website**: https://thefutur.com
- **YouTube**: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutur
- **Instagram**: https://www.instagram.com/thechrisdo
- **TikTok**: https://www.tiktok.com/@thechrisdo
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thechrisdo
- **Community**: https://community.thefutur.com

## Topics of Expertise

The Futur creates educational content across these core topics:

- Personal Branding
- Brand Strategy
- Business Strategy
- Entrepreneurship
- Pricing & Proposals
- Sales & Negotiation
- Marketing & Lead Generation
- Content Creation & Social Media
- Design (Graphic, Logo, Motion, Web, UX)
- Typography & Lettering
- Creative Process & Direction
- Mindset & Personal Development
- Communication & Public Speaking
- Client Acquisition
- Freelancing & Starting a Business

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## Paid Courses

### Business Bootcamp
- **Price**: $4,995
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Take your sales game to the next level, close with confidence, and break through your revenue ceiling with Chris Do's flagship, self-paced program.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/business-bootcamp

### Painless Pricing
- **Price**: $1,499
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Make pricing your creative work easy. Learn how to charge more and profit from every project.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/pricing

### Positioning & Lead Generation
- **Price**: $699
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Build awareness for your services, market to a global audience, and command a price premium.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/positioning-lead-generation

### How To Negotiate
- **Price**: $699
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: A tactical guide to deal with the most challenging client questions so you can win more business.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/how-to-negotiate

### Brand Messaging Kit
- **Price**: $299
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Resources
- **Description**: Years of experimentation, research and synthesizing, all packed into a hyper-condensed and easy-to-use framework.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/brand-messaging-kit

### Typography 01
- **Price**: $299
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Push your design skills to the next level in our most popular course.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/typography-01

### Brand Strategy Fundamentals
- **Price**: $199
- **Instructor**: Anneli Hansson
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Learn a proven framework and become your clients' go-to for developing their brand strategy.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/brand-strategy-fundamentals

### Stylescapes®
- **Price**: $199
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Your design projects can be more profitable. Learn how to make more money doing what you love with fewer client revisions.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/stylescapes

### Carousel Design
- **Price**: $199
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Learn Chris Do's exact process for making attention-grabbing Instagram content meant to grow your industry authority.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/instagram-carousel-design

### Lettering
- **Price**: $199
- **Instructor**: Nils Lindstrom
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Evoke emotion, draw in the viewer, and communicate a compelling message with the power of hand lettering.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/lettering

### Practical Project Management
- **Price**: $199
- **Instructor**: Matthew Encina
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: A practical, proven way to manage profitable projects and create great experiences for your clients.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/practical-project-management

### Land Your Dream Job
- **Price**: $169
- **Instructor**: Petrula Vrontikis
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Everything you need to know to find and land your dream job in the creative industry.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/land-your-dream-job

### Animation for Designers
- **Price**: $149
- **Instructor**: Apostolos Roussas
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Expand your creative potential and bring your designs to life with unique, eye-catching animations.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/animation-for-designers

### Color for Creatives
- **Price**: $149
- **Instructor**: Greg Gunn
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Go beyond theory and learn color like a pro. Master how to see, understand, and use color to create fresh, original work.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/color-for-creatives

### Illustration for Designers
- **Price**: $149
- **Instructor**: Greg Gunn
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Bring more visual interest and emotion to client work, stand out with your own illustration style.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/illustration-for-designers

### Logo Design 01
- **Price**: $149
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Learn the creative process and best practices from design professionals who charge $10k+.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/logo-design-01

### Managing Money
- **Price**: $149
- **Instructor**: Errol Gerson
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Learn how to manage and make sense of your business' finances to make informed decisions about its future.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/managing-money

### UX Fundamentals
- **Price**: $149
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Improve your design skills, increase your value to clients, and deliver impactful digital experiences.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/ux-design

### Unbland™ Yourself
- **Price**: $99
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Personal Branding
- **Description**: Success requires all of you. I'll make the introductions.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/unbland-yourself

### Rock Your Portfolio
- **Price**: $99
- **Instructor**: Stephanie Owens
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Bridge the gap between the types of client work you're getting and the types of clients you dream of.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/rock-your-portfolio

### The Setup Kit
- **Price**: $99
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Resources
- **Description**: Protect your business from the ground up. Learn how to set up your business so you can grow on a solid foundation.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/the-setup-kit

### The Legal Kit
- **Price**: $99
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Resources
- **Description**: Free your mind from worrying about the what-ifs and focus on the important stuff with these industry standard legal agreements.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/legal-kit

### Design Thinking Guidebook
- **Price**: $79
- **Instructor**: Eric Moore
- **Category**: Business Resources
- **Description**: Whip up some tasty solutions to your clients' toughest challenges with design thinking methods and become their most trusted advisor.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/design-thinking-guidebook

### The Style Guide Kit
- **Price**: $79
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Resources
- **Description**: An easy-to-use, done-for-you brand book template that has everything you need to deliver branding projects successfully.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/brand-style-guide-kit

### Grids and Layout
- **Price**: $59
- **Instructor**: Viktor Baltus
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: A ready-to-use kit with everything you need to create professional looking layouts with structure and hierarchy.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/grids-and-layout

### The Perfect Proposal
- **Price**: $59
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Business Resources
- **Description**: Everything you need to craft winning proposals: backed by decades of experience and millions of dollars in closed business.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/perfect-proposal

### Paid In Full
- **Price**: $59
- **Instructor**: Ben Burns
- **Category**: Business Resources
- **Description**: A masterclass for all things invoicing and accepting payments. Get paid in full, on time, every time with confidence.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/paid-in-full

### Unbland™ Essentials
- **Price**: $39
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Personal Branding
- **Description**: The 7-Point Map to Owning Your Lane.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/unbland-essentials

### Pocket Full of Do
- **Price**: $34.95
- **Instructor**: Chris Do
- **Category**: Personal Branding
- **Description**: One book, two decades of anecdotes, lessons, and wisdom.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/course/pocket-full-of-do

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## Free Resources

### Bidding Template
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: The exact bid template Chris Do used at Blind Agency to land his largest contracts.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/bidding-template

### Color Resource Guide
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: The best tools and resources for choosing the right color palette, all in one place.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/color-resource-guide

### Creative Brief Questionnaire
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: All the questions you didn't know you needed to ask before designing a logo.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/creative-brief-questionnaire

### Dynamic Compositions Guide
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Break free from flat, predictable layouts using the principles of contrast.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/dynamic-compositions-guide

### Essential Reading List
- **Category**: Personal Development
- **Description**: Get the reading list Chris Do recommends for rethinking business, pricing, and growth.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/reading-list

### First Meeting Workbook
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Every question you need to ask before writing a proposal.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/first-meeting-workbook

### Focus Worksheet
- **Category**: Personal Development
- **Description**: A workbook by Chris Do to help you see where your time is going and decide where it should go next.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/focus-worksheet

### Logo Critique Worksheet
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Give your logo one last hard look before you hit send.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/logo-critique-worksheet

### Resume Template
- **Category**: Business Skillsets
- **Description**: Chris Do's actual resume, designed for you to make it your own.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/resume-template

### Shadow Audit For Your Personal Brand
- **Category**: Personal Branding
- **Description**: The traits you're hiding may be the ones keeping your brand generic.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/shadow-audit

### Typography Manual
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Ten simple typography rules Chris Do learned at Art Center and still uses in every design.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/typography-manual

### Visual Vocabulary Worksheet
- **Category**: Creative Skillsets
- **Description**: Find better words to describe your creative work.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/free-resources/visual-vocabulary-worksheet

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## Blog Content (600+ Articles)

The Futur blog covers in-depth articles, podcast show notes, and video summaries. Content is organized by topic:

| Topic | Articles |
|---|---|
| Business | 70 |
| Mindset | 69 |
| Personal Development | 42 |
| Pricing | 41 |
| Marketing | 40 |
| Brand Strategy | 34 |
| Starting A Business | 32 |
| Design | 26 |
| Creative Process | 26 |
| Confidence | 21 |
| Sales | 21 |
| Content Creation | 20 |
| Branding | 18 |
| Typography | 18 |
| Personal Branding | 17 |
| Stress Management | 16 |
| Discovery | 15 |
| Technology | 10 |
| Motion Design | 9 |
| Social Media | 8 |
| Public Speaking | 7 |
| UX Design | 7 |
| Communication | 6 |
| Creativity | 6 |
| Client Acquisition | 6 |
| Graphic Design | 5 |

- **Browse all articles**: https://thefutur.com/blog

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## YouTube & Podcast Episodes (250+ Episodes)

The Futur YouTube channel features educational videos and podcast conversations. Content types include full-length videos and podcast episodes.

| Topic | Episodes |
|---|---|
| Personal Branding | 32 |
| Entrepreneurship | 31 |
| Content Creation | 24 |
| Business | 16 |
| Sales | 16 |
| Personal Development | 15 |
| Communication | 14 |
| Lead Generation | 14 |
| Client Acquisition | 12 |
| Mindset | 12 |
| Marketing | 10 |
| Social Media | 8 |
| Pricing | 8 |
| Creativity | 7 |
| Career Strategy | 7 |
| Brand Strategy | 7 |
| Starting A Business | 5 |
| Positioning | 4 |
| Design | 3 |
| Branding | 3 |
| Negotiation | 2 |
| Freelancing | 1 |

- **Watch episodes**: https://thefutur.com/watch

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## Membership

### The Futur Pro Group
- **Description**: A membership community for creative professionals featuring live coaching, accountability groups, and exclusive content.
- **URL**: https://thefutur.com/pro-group

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## About Chris Do

Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, brand strategist, CEO of Blind (a brand consultancy in Los Angeles), and founder of The Futur. He has over 20 years of experience working with brands like Nike, Microsoft, and Xbox. As an educator, he has taught at Art Center College of Design and speaks internationally on topics including branding, pricing, negotiation, and creative entrepreneurship.

- **Profile**: https://thefutur.com/chris-do

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## Connect

- **General Inquiries**: https://thefutur.com/connect
- **Speaking Engagements**: https://thefutur.com/connect
- **Sponsorship**: https://thefutur.com/become-a-sponsor
- **Be On The Show**: https://thefutur.com/be-on-the-show
- **Support Email**: support@thefutur.com

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## Source Files

- [llms.txt](https://thefutur.com/llms.txt) — Summary version
- [llms-full.txt](https://thefutur.com/llms-full.txt) — This file (detailed version)