The Process

089 - Reece Bennett On Creativity & Careers


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Reece Bennett is an assistant teacher at Humber College, teaching Visual Communications and sketching. From a small town in the middle of Lake Winnipeg, Reece's professional design career spans the consumer electronics industry into high quality furniture. With a wicked beard and incredible sketching style, Reece has spent the last ten years of his life in the industrial design industry and his entire life spent in the creative fields.

We chat about giving honest feedback to students, details of working in the furniture design industry and Reece's next steps in his career.

On today's episode of "The Process" we discuss:

  • Adopting a teaching mindset
  • Encouragement through honesty
  • Focus on improving the design
  • Reece's start in ID
  • First year vibes
  • Being bold in the workplace
  • Working in the furniture design industry
  • Reece's big goal
  • Animation sketching vs design sketching
  • Grades really don't matter!
  • Science fiction & Dune
  • Backpacking in Asia
  • Staying creative
  • Growing a beard
  • The answer is always practice
  • All the links, all the time!

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    Reece Bennett //

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reece-bennett-ba300247/?originalSubdomain=ca

    Website: https://www.reecebennettdesign.com/

    Instagram: @reeceb

    Zak Watson //

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zak-watson-48618517a/

    Behance: https://www.behance.net/zakwatson

    Dylan Torraville //

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylantorraville/

    Website: https://dylantorraville.com

    Portfolio: https://dylanjtorraville.myportfolio.com/

    Behance: https://www.behance.net/dylantorraville

    Send us an email to [email protected] if you have any questions or want to reach out!

    The Process is a podcast created by Toronto based industrial designers Dylan Torraville and Zak Watson. Dyl and Zak are picking up microphones to chat about their experiences in design school,  personal projects and navigating the creative process. Oh yeah, and there will be some sweet interviews with other designers and friends too.

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