Adventures In Design

Talking Points

• Making a tolerable package. 
• What is the timeline from concept to car lot?
• Maintaining a flexible design concept.
• Analyzing mega trends across decades.
• The milestones in creating a car.
• Understanding your market to help dictate specialty design elements.
• Verification milestones that allow cross-department collaboration on usability.
• Reaching a design freeze.
• Incorporating hundreds of parts from just as many suppliers.
• The demands of making a car every 5 seconds.
• Balancing dreams against your interior check book.
• Accounting for international cup sizes.
• Does a feature belong on the steering wheel or the Manhattan Space?
• Intuitive design that stylishly accommodates multiple functions.
• How the digital display has changed the delivery process of usable information.
• Don't overlook touch!
• Constraints and intricacy of industrial design.
• Autonomous cars shifting our focus from outside the windshield to inside the car.
• What would you do if you didn't have to drive your car?
• The human fascination with the automobile.
• From cigarette lighters to USB ports in just a decade.
• Thinking about the backseat.
• What everyday features are still being overlooked in a car.
• Working with a design from another era.
• How many people does Amko need to get design approvals from?
• Tying in market research to design.
• Does the CEO really know what he is talking about?
• Designing for wildly different generations.
• What tools are used to keep so many projects across so many teams in motion and on time.
• Solving problems while you sleep.
• Cooking and the act of creation.

Success. Failure. Virtual Reality Dogs. Today's Shop Talk has it all and Mark, Sean, and special guest Colin Frangicetto take each topic head on. What do you do as your empire crumbles around you? How much of your success in one world transfers over to any new venture? Do we give the internet to a goat herder's son in Pakistan out of philanthropic motivations or to increase market size? This adventure really does cover a lot of ground that all revolves around how we present ourselves as professionals to the world. 

•Big announcement for Circle Of Trustees.

•How control has shifted in the consumption of content and the pace it's created.

•The fall of Tower Records.

•How success and fame don't come hand in hand.

•The Zucklord laughing at himself.

•Watching what you say to avoid public persecution or being bold for public praise.

•Why Facebook wants to bring the internet to the whole world.

•If technology is opening up our world or acting as a barrier to actually experiencing it.

•Why do alert noises have to be so annoying?

In The Circle Of Trust

•The Five Ways We Communicate explained (sort of).

•Going DIY to connect with your audience.

•Colin's recent artist collaboration as a timed edition and how that worked out financially. Does time increase collectibility and do you have the right audience for the whole process?

•Audience size and their engagement levels.

•Can you take success form one world into another?

•Learning to laugh at criticisms.

•A look at Nervous Engine before the curtain is raised. What are Colins stratgies and financial goals for this upcoming venture.

•"Final" shows, break ups, or going on hiatus.

What isn't there to like about Landland? The relationship they have as working professionals and the genuinely compassionate attitudes of both Dan and Jessica make them an unstoppable force to be reckoned within the poster and illustration world. In this episode we hear about the the formation of Landland, how they have grown both together and separately, and where their future may, or may not, take them. This is a rare sort of interview that can only happen when people are true friends and let their guard down to openly share their triumphs and their troubles as working artists, and as people. Get ready for an honest and open look into everything that is Landland.

Talking Points
- Has Landland lasted longer than they originally thought they would?
- Maturing across your career as as artist and harnessing where our talent can take us.
- How public opinion can skew the reality of situation and not letting any of that affect your actual feelings about a situation.
- The difference of showing art under a moniker and showing art under your own name.
- Dan's early design days and the formation (literally and metaphorically) of Landland.
- Visualizing big changes in your life seeing by observing other people with the life you want.
- How Dan and Jessica met... and then met again.
- Losing a friend and a business partner and how Landland has handled that emotionally.

In The Circle of Trust
- Choosing to handle the situation instead of letting the situation handle you.
- Why Dan drives everywhere instead of flying.
- Defining your work ethic as a passion or as a health issue.
- Realizing the bargaining chips you have as a talented, sought after artist.
- Using your insecurity to push yourself and then finding confidence in your work.
- Working with open or closed parameters on a new art piece.
- The difference between working on an art print, or a movie poster, or a band poster.
- How its hard to turn off your creativity when you draw inspiration from whats all around you.
- Actually revisiting places and things you've drawn.
- How Landland developed their unique look and walked away from the traditional use of key lines.
- The future of Landland.
- Career fears from both Dan and Jessica
- The different creative skills you flex across an entire project from ideation to laying down the final color on paper.
- Letting your business feel real to you.
- Becoming a part of the show and not just being at the show.
- The fine art of picking a name.



Non Talking Points on Episode 354
- Circle of Trust Day at Disneyland Monday, April 25th.
- Mark has Flatstock and Billy has C2E2 today. The guys talk about their events this weekend.
- The iMac Black Screen of Death. Mark is in big trouble and drifts further out of love with Apple.
- AT&T and their illegal treatment of the unlimited data user.
- Tips on buying a car. Never let the salesman know that you own your own business.
- What video games are Billy and Mark playing?
- Professor Billy gives teaching advice after hitting his one year anniversary.
- Getting deep on the time continuum, has life been Groundhog’s Day since high school?
- Mark “Survivalist” Brickey and Billy “Don’t Get Involved” Baumann have a talk about airplanes, crowds and the apocalypse.

Circle of Trust (Paid Content)
- Always have a plan.
- What do you do when the stress runs out? Mark is trying adjust to his new, relatively stress free, life. Has he been addicted to the chase?
- The career long reoccurring fundamental problems that every designer with client faces today and probably always will.
- Pissing in the shower.
- Does the 2016 Presidential Race indicate the end of an empire? Is America falling apart or has it always been this bad?

Often heard “It takes 3 years to turn a profit”, today host Mark Brickey shares a very special three year anniversary with co-host Sean Mort, together they explore why 3 years is the magic number in life.

First off, we setup the rules for the all new Sean Mort drinking game, talk about getting ready for spring and the kick off of festival season and lastly debate two awkward show related topics: should David come to SXSW and did a recent Tough Love guest cross an “assumed” professional line. The tough love gets even tougher, as requested, on this honest but yet somewhat awkward conversation.  

Mark shares a special 3 year anniversary in his personal and professional life and studies the lowest of lows and highest of highs as he and Sean examine the myth on 3 years being the magic amount of time for a businesses to turn a profit and  for projects to finally have legs. In what will be remembered as emotional and brutally honest episode of Adventures In Design, at times it sounds more like two best friends confiding in each other than it does a recorded podcast. With everything spread out on the table it’s a conversation that you should be able to find an ounce of inspiration from or at least think, damn that was an alright true life story. Gather around the radio kids don’t let fear cripple you but motivate you, as always celebrate your victories to find the strength to win again and remember why you love the people that you love and most importantly why they love you.

The forensic side of design, how much time do you put into studying the resource images and subject matters of your work?

Back from break and talking about the forensic side of design, how much time do you put into studying the resource images / subject matters of your work? Hopefully you put in more time into research than than Marco Rubio's presidential commercial “Morning Again”.

Mark and Sean talk about the moral crossroad that Apple has found itself in and even have AID legal analysts “Southern Lawyer” chime in on the decision that Tim Cook and Apple need to make… from a “southern” perspective that is.

In The Circle of Trust the guys play your phone calls and clean out the AID voicemail box. While debating how much gender plays into self confidence and has Mark been too mean to the Millennials.