Creative Voyage Podcast

In this episode, I talk to Eike König, a Berlin-based graphic designer, and creative director, who’s also a teacher, and an artist. We cover topics such as his approach to teaching, challenges on his career journey, advice to young creative professionals, his struggle with depression, and much more.

Biography

Eike König, born 1968 in Hanau, studied Graphic Design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. He was the Art Director of Logic Records and has been running his own studio for visual communication, Hort, which emerged from the Frankfurt techno scene, since 1994. The studio moved to Berlin in 2007 and had been growing as a group ever since. Eike has held various endowment and visiting professorships at German universities, including Bauhaus Universität Weimar, HfG Offenbach and Hochschule Mainz University of Applied Sciences. The work by Hort is regularly published in the leading international publications on the subject area. In recent years, besides his involvement in the creative industry, Eike has been active as an independent artist, for who’s work Peter Zizka, German designer and conceptual artist, says “Eike wouldn’t merit his kingly surname if he did not touch upon the anti-aesthetic tabernacle with quite so much virtuosity or have invented his very own visual chaos theory. His eternally creative light transforms design elements into free radicals, which develop a hugely associative delight in reaction among observers at every interface of contact.”

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This episode is dedicated to Nao Nozawa, a Tokyo based graphic designer and art director. We cover topics such as dealing with feedback and criticism, the importance of personal work and self-initiated projects, the specifics of freelancing, and working with clients in Japan, and much more.

Biography

Nao Nozawa is a Tokyo based graphic designer and art director. She currently works as a freelancer within different disciplines including graphic design, art direction, accessories, and textile design, and is always eager to collaborate. She’s a member of the Japan Graphic Designers Association. Besides her client practice, she nurtures her personal work, through making exhibitions and books.

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In this episode, I talk to Ellen Freeman, a freelance writer and editor based in Mexico City. We cover topics such as advice to writers who are just starting out, the process of pitching, financial challenges of being a freelance writer, what makes a good story, and much more.

Biography

Ellen Freeman is a writer and editor who graduated from Haverford College with a B.A. in Comparative Literature (Arabic & English) in 2011. Her writing has been published in Lenny Letter, Refinery29, Roads & Kingdoms, i-D, Travel Portland, Racked, Mental Floss, Ozy, October, Apartment Therapy, The Matador Network, The Fashion Spot, the Portland Mercury, and other online and print publications. She’s the Deputy Editor of Broccoli, a magazine for cannabis lovers, made by and for women. Together with Sharada Tolton, she created Muff, a zine about the new New Age.

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In this episode, I talk to Charlotte Heal, a London-based Creative/Art Director, and Founder of Charlotte Heal Design Ltd. We cover topics such as hunting for new work, conceptual approach to design solutions, framing mistakes, the state of young talent today, the things she is currently struggling with, and Micheal Jackson dance routines.

Biography

Charlotte Heal was educated at the Royal College of Art, London, and founded her studio in 2007. Working fluently across art direction and design, Charlotte Heal Design Ltd. is a full-service studio that operates internationally, with clients in the fashion, lifestyle and cultural sectors, creating well-crafted design solutions across print and digital media—from campaigns and identities, to publications, films and websites. Known for her refined aesthetic, hawk-eyed attention to detail and interest in the uncanny, she also complements the studio practice with lecturing both in the UK and abroad. Recent engagements include Here London, Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design and Meal Ticket at KK Outlet.

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For this first episode of the podcast, I talk to NYC-based photographer Jacopo Moschin. We cover topics such as work routines, the danger of the comfort zone, main challenges of being a photographer today, understanding who you are and what photography is about, the importance of research, his advice for briefs coming from art directors, and much more.

Biography

Jacopo Moschin is a portrait and documentary photographer based in NYC. His quest is to portray real characters in the realm of fashion. He is constantly looking for the unimportant frames that reveal the moments lost in-between, filled with raw and spontaneous emotions. His warm approach to his subject is predominant over the context. Through powerful but subtle imagery he exposes strength and vulnerability, light and darkness. His practice gives a depth and substance to the editorial and commercial image-making. His work has been featured on Kinfolk Magazine, i-D, Vogue USA, Vogue Spain, Amica, Style, Financial Times, Elle, Interview Magazine and for clients such as Bally, Levi's, Dolce& Gabbana, Ann Taylor, Daya by Zendaya, John Hardy, Vhernier, Dior, Louis Vuitton and others.

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Introduction to the Season 1 of the Creative Voyage Podcast, a long-form interview show with a mission of helping creative professionals to level up. Find out more at https://creative.voyage/