In this episode, we spoke with Chi Ryan National Experience Strategy Lead at PwC.

Chi Ryan makes meaningful products, services and experiences for humans, and humanity — and she’s passionate about empowering others to do the same. She has worked with many of the big names in service design including Fjord, Isobar and Idean and she is now the experience strategy lead at PwC.

We talked about Ancient Egypt and Graham Hancock, using video and motion to communicate, teaching and learning, the circular economy and how we can wake people up to think differently. Chi also shared The Circular Design Program and highlighted the responsibility designers have towards fighting to eradicate industrial waste and pollution.

Special thanks to our friends Streamtime for their ongoing support. Check them out at streamtime.net. Get a free account. Try them out. It'll be time well spent.

Links:

https://grahamhancock.com

Do What You Can’t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7dSXcfVqE

Jodorowsky’s Dune Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg4OCeSTL08

Jodorowsky meets Kanye West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Qdc2ggPHc

The Circular Design Program

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/06/11/ellen-macarthur-circular-economy-designers/

Kaching Film

https://kachingfilm.com

This episode sees us sitting with Steve Baty, co-founder and principal of Meld Studios.

Let’s just get this out of the way, Steve is a mad cyclist, so we begin there before he expertly links it back to service design, user experience and how to solve ‘dumb shit’ quickly. Steve has an uncanny ability to see the core of the problem and we talk through a range of case studies that explain Melds approach.

The team at Meld is incredibly diverse, with a wide range of experience and skills, not normally seen in a studio. We discuss this and also look at the importance of community and Steve’s role in UX Book Club, the Good Design Council of Australia, IxDA and the UX Australia conferences. At some point Matt manages to steer the conversation towards education (surprise surprise) and Steve’s multiple academic qualifications.

Special thanks to our friends Streamtime for their ongoing support. Check them out at streamtime.net. Get a free account. Try them out. It’’ll be time well spent.

Thank you also to Adobe for lending us their Adobe LIVE sound room to record in. Go to adobeapaclive.com to see their library of video tutorials.

Photo credit: Emma Nevison https://www.emmanevison.com

Links:

Meld Studios: https://www.meldstudios.com.au

Meld Studios Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meldstudios

Steve Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/docbaty

Steve LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebaty

UX Australia: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au

UX Book Club SYD: https://www.uxbookclubsydney.com/home

Good Design Council of Australia: https://good-design.org

IxDA: https://ixda.org

Streamtime: https://streamtime.net

Adobe LIVE: https://www.adobeapaclive.com

In this episode, we spoke with Benni Weller and Mikey Hart of Hulsbosch.

Benni and Mikey are both Creative Directors at Hulsbosch based in Sydney. Hulsboch is known for creating iconic brands and working with big-name clients throughout Australia and Mikey and Benni find themselves today as creative leaders.

We spoke about their different paths to where they are today, the pros and cons of specialising vs generalising as a designer, collaboration and the value of diversity in creative teams.

ADR episodes stay on time and on track thanks to our partners at Streamtime! It's creative project management software that works. Try it streamtime.net.

Links:

benniweller.de

linkedin.com/in/mikeyhart

hulsbosch.com.au

In this episode, we spoke with Kenjiro Kirton, Co-Founder and Creative Director at Hato.

It’s Saturday afternoon on the last day of The Design Conference in Brisbane. The beers are flowing, the heads are sore and the minds overloaded. Still, we found time to sit down with Kenjiro Kirton, Co-Founder and Creative Director at Hato.

Hato is a unique studio (both in London and Hong Kong) for the way they approach design. Focused on active play and community engagement, you could say their design is based on co-creation, or facilitation, with the end user — leading to some truly unique outputs.

For his part, Kenjiro is incredibly well-researched and curious, always putting the ‘why’ before the what. There are a lot of throwaway references in this episode that are well worth looking up, so have a notepad ready.

Matt was very kindly joined by Yasmin Naghavi (solicitor from Media Arts Lawyers and Alex Naghavi’s sister) and Ben Johnston (Alex’s boss — it all leads back to Alex). It was great to have these two on as they added extra depth to the conversation. Thank you so much for saying yes.

Thank you to the Design Conference for giving us access to their guests and check out streamtime.net.

Links:

Website: www.hato.co

Kenjiro Instagram: www.instagram.com/ken.hato

Hato Instagram: www.instagram.com/studiohato

Hato Press Instagram: www.instagram.com/hatopress

Start with a mark: https://campaignbrief.com/dad-reveals-2018-festival-iden

Hato D&AD Festival 18 identity: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/hato-d-and-a-d-festival-2018-visual-identity-advertising-240418

Célestin Freinet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9lestin_Freinet

The Design Conference: https://www.thedesignconference.com.au

In this episode, we spoke with Ben Johnston and Alex Naghavi of Joseph Mark.

We began by talking about working and living in LA and projects with famous people, we spent some time at Adam Sandler’s Christmas Party and the gushed about the Hemsworth's.

We later got deep into the future of sex, getting old, sexual compatibility scores and our cognitive load, venturing and investing in people (rather than an idea).

ADR episodes stay on time and on track thanks to our partners at Streamtime! It's creative project management software that works. Try it streamtime.net.

Big thanks to guest host Prue Jones and The Design Conference for having us.

Links:

https://www.josephmark.com.au

http://www.alexnaghavi.com

https://www.instagram.com/thebrokecollector_

http://www.thefallsfarm.com

We’re at the Design Conference in Brisbane and we had the opportunity to sit down with Amanda Munilla, Managing Director, at Wolff Olins. 

 

Amanda, not a designer by trade has had a non-linear path into managing at one of the biggest creative firms in the World. Deciding not to be a lawyer was only the beginning and she has since gone on to build a strong career in strategy. With that in mind, we get into what strategy means, how it’s changed and how Amanda explains it to clients.  

 

Amanda is also a big supporter of Womentor. So we get into what it is, why she got involved and why it’s needed in the industry — now more than ever. We touch on the fact that Wolff Olin's office heads, around the World, are all female. Amanda has a lot to say on this and is passionate that diversity isn’t a token action.

Huge thanks to Prue Jones and Andy Wright who co-hosted, our mates at Streamtime and The Design Conference. You guys rock!

Check out streamtime.net. Project management software for creative agencies.

Links:

Wolff Olins website: https://www.wolffolins.com

Wolff Olins Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wolffolins

Amanda Insta: https://www.instagram.com/pilar24

Amanda LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandamunilla

TDCB recap: https://www.wolffolins.com/the-design-conference-2019-recap

Womentor website: https://www.womentor.com.au

Prue Insta: https://www.instagram.com/prudencemjones

Andy Insta: https://www.instagram.com/adwrighty

Never Not Creative website: https://www.nevernotcreative.org

NNC Insta: https://www.instagram.com/nvrnotcreative

In this episode, we spoke with Tea Uglow, experimental person in charge at google's creative lab, Sydney.

Tea Uglow is one of those very few people who genuinely make you rethink everything you thought you knew. This episode is full of interesting insights into how we can think about technology, inclusiveness, design, and accommodation.

We talk very briefly about her early days at Google in 2006 and how she didn’t particularly see herself working there for long, fast forwarding to today where she works in the idea of information, space and how digital works with humans, technology and culture. We covered how experimentation can be part success and part disaster, our relationship with truth in communication, ethics, inclusiveness and framing problems.

Big thank you to special guest host Prue Jones, our friends at Streamtime and The Design Conference Brisbane.

Check out streamtime.net to keep on top your projects. Admin without feeling like admin.

Links

http://teau.me

https://research.ambientlit.com

JFK Unsilenced campaign: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/06/22/cannes-lions-the-day-jfk-unsilenced-wins-creative-data-grand-prix-cannes

EP105 with Mills and Sinx

Founders and owners of UsTwo, Matt 'Mills' Miller and John ‘Sinx’ Sinclair suddenly find themselves in a very enviable position — leaders of a successful ‘independent’ company, and… not really needed. This is of course ‘designed’ and not without a lot of hard work. But, since bringing in a CEO and senior management the best friends finally get to appreciate what they have built.

In collaboration with Andy Wright and Never Not Creative, we found some time to sit with Mills & Sinx and explore what their company looks like now, how their friendship continues to work after 30 years and what they are going to do with all this spare time. This is an incredibly frank and honest reflection that charts the naïve, hedonistic beginnings of the ‘fampany’ to the realisation that they needed to pull the needle back towards business, making hard decisions and ‘growing up’ in order to protect the company and their 300+ employees. It’s a perfect end of chapter conversation, before beginning the next.

As always special thanks to Streamtime for their steadfast support and motivation. If you haven’t tried their software yet, well, you’re wasting time, literally.

Special thanks to The Design Conference who gave us this opportunity. If you haven’t been before, you must, simple as that.

Links:

UsTwo: www.ustwo.com

Monument Valley: www.monumentvalleygame.com/mv2

The road to 100: medium.com/the-inner-terrapin-woke/my-name-is-mills-i-am-mills-e919b099b2a7

Mill’s podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-jfdi-cast/id1358414484

Mills Instagram: www.instagram.com/millsustwo

Sinx Instagram: www.instagram.com/sinxustwo

TDC: www.thedesignconference.com.au

Streamtime: www.streamtime.net

As Director and co-founder of Small Multiples, Andrea Lau is a data-visualisation specialist. In their words, they are a multidisciplinary team of data specialists, designers and developers, helping people make the best use of their data. Flyn and Matt unashamedly use this as an opportunity to dig into what data is, and how the visualisation of it is affecting many of our day to day decisions. Thankfully, Andrea is incredibly passionate about the education of data and raising everyone’s data literacy, having taught courses and workshops in this area — so, she was accommodating and incredibly informative.

We also spend some time on what it’s like to run a niche studio in an emerging area and why data specialists are becoming such hot property. Towards the end, we discuss the crossover point between data visualisation and art and look at how, as a studio, Small Multiples is trying to present data in non-typical ways — in boutique chocolates for example.

As always special thanks to Streamtime for their steadfast support and motivation. If you haven’t tried their software yet, well, you’re wasting time, literally.

Special thanks to John Allsopp from web directions for connecting us with Andrea.

Links:

Streamtime streamtime.net

Small Multiples: www.smallmultiples.com.au

Visualise Today: www.blog.smallmultiples.com.au

Bakedown Cakery: www.bakedowncakery.com

Hello Sun: www.hellosunapp.com

Not A single Origin: https://notasingleorigin.com

Immigrant maps: https://smallmultiples.com.au/projects/mapping-immigrants-birth-places

Framework for designing amazing maps: https://smallmultiples.com.au/articles/what-to-think-about-when-designing-maps

School planning: https://smallmultiples.com.au/projects/school-planning-assistance-tool

Tim Berners-Lee and data: https://5stardata.info/en/ and https://solid.inrupt.com

We Feel Fine: http://wefeelfine.org/ and http://number27.org/wefeelfine

Matt is still in London and he managed to find an empty spot in Pip Jamieson’s — (understandably) very busy — diary (8am after a public holiday). Pip is the founder and CEO of The Dots, a professional network for people in the creative industry. She has been named in numerous ‘ones to watch’ lists and has thrown herself into the world of raising capital and entrepreneurship. She’s passionate about diversity, emerging technology, leadership and creativity — and we managed to weave all of them into this conversation.

Many in Australia will know Pip as the co-founder of The Loop before she moved back to the UK in 2014 to begin the Dots. She’s incredibly curious, constantly learning new things and with a signature infectious laugh — it’s impossible not to be inspired by her. Especially when you consider she is dyslexic, which she considers her ‘superpower’. The Dots is fast positioning itself as the main alternative to LinkedIn so we also manage to get into the details of what makes them different and what’s next.

As always special thanks to Streamtime for their steadfast support and motivation. If you haven’t tried their software yet, well, you’re wasting time, literally.

Links:

Streamtime https://streamtime.net

The Dots: https://the-dots.com

Pip’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_Jamieson

Pip in Marie Claire: https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/people/pip-jamieson-578139

Creative Review Top 50 Leaders: https://the-dots.com/projects/pip-jamieson-named-one-of-creative-review-s-creative-leaders-50-of-2017-176795

Pip on Monocle: https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-entrepreneurs/216