Creatives Ignite

Episode 239. Aired on Wednesday, January 3, 2018.

Illustration is on my brain, along with new goals and skills I want to master (well get better at). This week I am so excited to have one of my former students on the show this week. This designer has exploded since graduating. This week’s guest is Nick Brito. Nick graduated a few years ago but blossomed after graduation due to a self-imposed project. He has grown and continues to grow and set goals for himself and his career.

Nick is going to share some of his secrets to keeping at it and share his illustration journey with us. We will talk about setting goals for 2018, illustrator tips, and building a digital product to sell on Creative Market.

I hope you will join us for the FIRST Design Recharge of 2018.

Follow Nick at:

Dribble: https://dribbble.com/nickbrito

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick.brito/

For full show notes go to: https://rechargingyou.com/2017/12/31/nick-brito-working-towards-a-goal/

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Episode 238. Aired on December 6, 2017

Want to learn some tips about illustrating details with chalk? Well my guest this week is my good friend, Kim Panella. She will be sharing all kinds of detail tips and tips on chalk illustration and lettering. Kim has an inspiring story of perseverance and she is one of the coolest people I know. Her humility and desire to learn are infectious. I hope you will join us for the LAST Design Recharge of 2017.

Kim and I will also talk about our goals for the new year. Have you started thinking about your goals for 2018?

Show Notes & Ways to Follow Kim:

http://www.kimpanella.com/tools/

Subscribe for a chance to win!

http://www.kimpanella.com/designrecharge

My site

www.KimPanella.com

Facebook

www.facebook.com/kimpanellaart

Instagram

@KimPanella

Twitter

@KimPanella

Behance

@KimPanella

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Episode 237. Aired November 22, 2017

This week's guest is Austin Saylor a motion designer with a love for animating lettering. We will chat about his new course, Animating Lettering which opened on Monday, Nov 20. We will learn what is in the course and how it will help us in our business. Tune in live on Wednesday, November 22 at 2:30pm ET / 11:30amPT.

Follow Austin at:

www.austinsaylor.com

www.letteringanimation.com

www.twitter.com/itsaustinsaylor

http://www.instagram.com/itsaustinsaylor

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Episode 236. Aired on November 15, 2017

Do you work InHouse? There are positives and negatives to it. This week’s guest, Andrew Berkemeyer works InHouse at Woods Coffee in Bellingham Washington. He started his career as a designer on a small InHouse team and has been able to find his rhythm working for companies on their InHouse teams. Come with some questions about working InHouse and find out what Andrew has been doing in his free time.

Follow Andrew at:

Dribbble.com: dribbble.com/vibrantimpact

Instagram: www.instragram.com/andrewberk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/vanandrewmusic

Music: www.vanandrewmusic.com

Episode 235. Aired on November 8, 2017

Have you ever wanted to change up your style? Or get better at something in a fairly quick amount of time? Well it all takes time. Meena Khalili has been a regular guest on the show and I am stoked to have her back. Meena is an illustrator, and design professor who is has one hand in the digital world and one hand in the physical world. She will be talking about her 365 project that transformed her style and has turned into a traveling show.

Find out why she got started, what tools she takes with her, how long each sketch takes, and how her style has morphed since beginning this 365 challenge.

Follow and connect with Meena:

her site: meenakhalili.com

(direct link to purchase prints from material print shop: materialprintshop.com/store/meena-khalili)

dribbble: dribbble.com/meenakhalili

instagram for New in LOU: instagram.com/newinlou365

instagram for Meena: instagram.com/meenakhalili

twitter: twitter.com/meenakhalili

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Episode 233. Airs on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT / 5:30pm in the UK.

You may know Tom Ross from his start-up, Design Cuts, a source for great deals on digital design products and bundles. Tom is a new friend I was introduced to through Dustin Lee but I feel like I have known him for about six months because I have been listening to the Honest Designers Show every week since it started. I am a huge fan of the show and Tom. Tom is the founder of Design Cuts and is a whiz at building, authentic, long-term relationships with people in the industry. Thursday we will be talking about how he has done that and why it has been critical to his success and the success of Design Cuts.

Follow Tom at:

www.designcuts.com

www.honestdesigners.com

www.instagram.com/tomrossmedia

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Episode 232. Aired on Tuesday, October 17, 2017.

Matt and I will continue our conversation about branding and how he decides when to create hand drawn typographic marks vs computer-generated symbols and how he does that. Join us for the LIVE show and see what I mean about his versatility and how he has continued to grow over the years. We will also get to see some more of his amazing wave illustrations.

Follow Matt at:

Web: VERG.COM.AU

Instagram: @MATTVERGOTIS

FB: @MATTVERG

Twitter: @MATTVERGOTIS

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Episode 231. Aired on October 10, 2017

This week I am excited to have my friend, Matt Vergotis on the show. Matt is an incredible designer and a passionate lettering artist. He has clients from all over the globe. His branding clients show his versatility. He loves working by hand first and has a great eye for business, keeping grounded, and we will dig into what he does to keep his name and work on the forefront. There will most definitely be some surfing analogies.

Follow Matt at:

Web: VERG.COM.AU

Instagram: @MATTVERGOTIS

FB: @MATTVERG

Twitter: @MATTVERGOTIS

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To find full show notes with links please go to: https://rechargingyou.com/2017/10/07/matt-vergotis-versatile-flexible/

Episode 230. Aired on Wednesday, October 4, 2017

This week I am excited to have my friend David O’Hara on the show. David has changed from a visual designer to a user experience designer. He has moved without a job, he has struggled but then excelled. David doesn’t give up, even when life has thrown him lemons.

David’s attitude especially when he was looking for work is inspiring. He has a great philosophy for networking and we will hear about that.

Follow David at:

50 States - 50StatesSupply.com

Portfolio - davidpohara.com

Dribbble - dribbble.com/davidpohara

facebook - facebook.com/davidpohara

instagram - @davidpohara

twitter - @davidpohara

linkedin - linkedin.com/in/davidpohara/

email - [email protected]

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Episode 229. Aired on September 27, 2017 at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT

This week I am excited to have Erik Reagan on the show. Erik was on a panel at Creative South the first year I attended it and I was blown away by the panel and have followed him and FocusLab ever since.

Maybe you are like me and want to scale your business or get in a place where scaling is an option, but really don’t know where to begin. I have known I wanted to scale my business but have not had the guts or knowledge to know how to do it successfully. And those are some of the secrets that Erik will be sharing with us.

Erik is also going to share how his faith has influenced his decisions and helped as the business has grown.

Check out Erik at:

https://www.instagram.com/focuslabllc/

http://focuslabllc.com/

[email protected]

https://madebysidecar.com/journal/pricing-hourly-rates-vs-fixed-prices

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