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September 16, 2026
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Show Your Work: Piers Brings Typography to Life with Shaders

  • September 16, 2026
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The newest episode of Show Your Work is live on YouTube!

In this series, we hand designers the mic to walk through their work, their workflow, and have a little fun along the way.

 

What you'll see
In the below episode Piers Cowburn, Figma’s Director of Software Engineering, walks through how he's using shaders to bring his typography to life.

  • How Piers approaches shaders as a creative material
  • A peek at his real workflow, tools and thinking
  • Fun examples you can try on your own. 

 

Want to watch more? 

The full Show Your Work playlist has every episode so far, and we have more on the way.

Watched it? Tell us what you'd want to see next. We're always taking requests.

 

Show us your creations

The Figma Forum is a great place to discuss what you learned with others. Has this episode of Show Your Work inspired you to make your own creations? Show us!

 

    1 reply

    vectorrick
    New Member
    October 7, 2026

    The idea of treating shaders as a creative material is a helpful way to frame this episode. I would like to see a future walkthrough of small interactive browser experiences. For a quick break between experiments, I also share Coreball