In this episode, we spoke with Matt Hopper, Director and Founder of Melbourne based video content studio Compulsive.

Over the past decade, Matt has produced creative projects across both big and small screens for international brands, boutique creative teams as well as government & institutional clients. This work includes television commercials, branded content, original web-series, and education/training content.

We spoke about his ambitious side project Inframe TV, his creative process, commercial shoots, traction (that'll make sense later), earthquakes and angering Japanese spirits.

In this episode, we spoke with Nathan Leong, Founder and Managing Director of The Distillery and Rockstar Memoirs.

The Distillery is well known by just about every designer in Sydney and many interstate Australian designers. Nathan is also the Founder and owner of Rockstar Memoirs who caters specifically for high school graduate yearbooks.

We spoke about how great things happen with initiative, the human aspect of wanting to help people, running a business, hiring people you trust, expanding to south-east Asia, letterpress and how much an original Heidelberg weighs.

In this episode, we spoke with Nick Gower Co-Founder and Director of Mentally Friendly.

Nick founded Mentally friendly in 2004 with Jon Christensen and since then it has grown to over 50 staff based in Sydney and London. Today they help companies design and grow profitable digital businesses through planning, UX/UI design, product development, product growth and content & community.

We spoke with Nick about traditional agency models and other ways to work, navigating a digital agency with emerging technologies, cross-platform retail, creating his own products vs agency process and creating a fun and collaborative work environment for designers and staff.

In this episode, we spoke with Ian Haigh computer guy/video guy/bon vivant from motion graphics company Ketchup.

Ian runs his own business Ketchup which is a small company that uses film and animation to tell stories of brands – and the people behind them. He also wrote the script for Ease and Wizz.

This episode was recorded live on stage at an event in Sydney called Jacky Winter Gives You The Business. We were invited to record a live episode on stage and cover 'How and when do I talk about money with a client?'. A challenging topic and we so in true ADR style we invited someone who knows about this stuff.

In this episode, we spoke with each other.

We kick the conversation off by listing off the designers we would love to chat to during the next season before heading into the Hillary Clinton logo meme - it’s making World news at the moment and if you haven’t already read the stories then Milton Glaser’s piece on the AIGA blog is well worth a look.

We discuss the Apple Watch and why Matt bottled out at the last second and bought a record player instead (knowing full well he will look at Flyn’s wrist with jealousy) and we examine some of the design events happening during VIVID Sydney at the end of May. Finally, we talk about being part of the Jack Winter event next month and how on earth we are going to do a live event.

In this episode, we spoke with Julie Faktor freelance design writer and Co-Founder/Creative Director of Yonder.

Along with her business partner, Benjamin Gay Yonder creates a hybrid service bringing advertising and design together under one roof. This is a good analogy for Julie as well who throughout recent years has sought to bring more awareness to each side in the advertising/design divide through her work with the AGDA and AWARD councils.

We spend some time in this conversation talking about living in San Francisco and working with the legendary Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Julie was in San Francisco during not only the Dot Com Boom but also for its Bust so we discuss what the city felt like in its peak and after the dust settled.

In this episode, we spoke with Amy Sheppard the Digital Creative Director of Australia Post.

Amy has had a long history of working both in and out of client-side so she’s the perfect person to give both sides of the story. As you’ll guess from her accent, Amy has only been in Australia for about two years. Previously working for Deloitte in both Sydney and Melbourne she hails from New York where she worked for corporate giants such as Johnson & Johnson and Weight Watchers when they were just a start up.

Because of her recent arrival she was also the right person to answer last week’s question from Chris Billing when he asked about distinctly Australian design. Amy talks about what she knew about Australian design before arriving and what she knows now that she’s been immersed in it.

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Billing Founder and Director of the Foundry.

The Foundry, a start-up collective devoted to bringing a larger spotlight to the creative communities of Tasmania.

In this discussion, we spend some time looking at the Tasmanian design scene and the good and bad of being an island. We talk about the ‘main-brain-drain’ where creative talent feels the need to move to the mainland and we touch upon David Walsh and Mona’s ever-present influence on Tasmanian culture.

In this episode, we spoke with Tim Buesing, Executive Creative Director at Reactive.

Tim has over 20 years experience in digital design and has worked for agencies such as BBDO, Publicis, Razorfish and MetaDesign. For the last three years, he’s been known as a Creative Director of Reactive, editor of Adverblog contributor to Australian in Front and speaker at numerous events around the World.

Tim talks through his approach to design, why he’s excited by digital experiments and the importance of collaboration. In our regular slot, we also pass on a question from our previous guest and ask Tim what he’s doing to encourage and help young designers. This leads into a listener email about mentors, how to get one and what to expect.

In this episode, we spoke with Jason Little, Co-Founder of For the People.

Jason is known for a lot of things but mostly branding, in fact he’s been featured by D&AD multiple times for his branding and even been picked to be in the Graphis Branding annual. He’s been the Creative Director of Landor, not just here but also in Paris, still is AGDA NSW Chairman and up until recently was heading up Re: in Sydney.

We spoke about his new agency which he founded recently with Andy Wright and Damian Borchok, their own podcast called By the People, technology, start-up and agency culture and much more.