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  • Do Places Impact Our Designs & Creative Mindset? – Episode 005

    On today’s episode we’re going to be talking about places and the effect that they have on the creative mindset and how we design.
     
     
    1:45 The Oscars. Did you see that craziness? Check it here.
    3:21 We’re not superstitious. We’re tinystitious.
    4:33 Does anyone else just choose C on tests if they don’t know the answer?
    5:13 New song alert! Katy Perry is da bomb. She came out with a new jam called, “Chained to The Rhythm”
    7:24 The suweeeeet music video for “Chained To The Rhythm”
    9:47 The look of the music video is super appealing. From the color scheme to the costume design, it all helps us read into the story of the lyrics.
    10:23 Brandi: When she does mind maps, she is always trying to find visually descriptive words to help with ideas for a concept.
    11:08 Who loves musicals more? Michelle or Brandi? Time will tell.
    11:48 Can you hear our kids? They need more snacks.
    12:29 Brandi has admitted that this music video will be a cool style reference for the future!
    13:06 Question for Brandi: How have the places you’ve been affected the way you design?
    13:17 Cool song alert!!! Have you heard Chainsmokers song, “Paris”? No? Go listen now!!
    15:18 In regards to the lyric, “If I could take this in a shot right now”, Brandi really relates with this song because when she gets in a cool atmosphere she wants to drink the place in and absorb every bit of it as much as possible.
    17:28 We are from Albuquerque, NM. ABQ isn’t known for their coffee shops or places that present a cool atmosphere… Until now! Over the past few years, some great coffee shops have been popping up around town, and Michelle loves to frequent them. If you’re in the 505, and you have some time check out these coffee shops: Zendo, Deep Space Coffee, Prismatic, Epiphany Espresso, and Humble.
    19:14 Brandi loves Paris. A lot. And butter croissants.
    21:10 Brandi examines her work and where she pulls inspiration from… She answers today’s question. It’s lengthy (but not too lengthy) and great. Go take a listen.
    22:45 Brandi’s favorite book is Ernest Hemingway’s, A Moveable Feast. This is where she pulls a lot of her inspiration from, and truly believes that because of it, Paris does effect her work a lot more than she ever knew.
    24:46 Brandi asks, when we feel like we need to get something done or be creative, why do we feel like we need to go to a coffee shop? Is it mind conditioning, or is it something we need to do to get things done? Answer: Probably a little bit of both.
    26:54 Michelle admits to being a hardcore people watcher. You learn a lot about people when you just watch them.
    28:46 Thank you to EVERYONE who has given us some feedback and rated our podcast!!! If you haven’t done that yet, you can do it now’ish… That would be cool. Please and thank you!!
    30:59 Check out @Brandisea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and www.brandisea.com
    31:44 Check out Vesperteen – Thanks to him for letting us use his song, Shatter in The Night,
    33 min
  • The Most Annoying Design Question – Episode 004

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    This week Michelle braces herself to ask Brandi Sea, “what program do you use to make your designs?”. It might sound design snobby but please bear with us and listen to the logic behind why this question is so frustrating for designers.

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    25 min
  • On Processing Someone Else’s Vision (getting into their head) – Episode 003

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    This week we address what it’s like to bring another person’s idea to life. 1:40 We’re off to a rocky start. Feeling a bit loopy. 2:20 Brandi’s favorite color is red and sea green. She doesn’t like to wear red, but she loves the color. 3:27 Is black a color? It depends on if you’re […]

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    25 min
  • On Processing Someone Else’s Vision (getting into their head) – Episode 003

    This week we address what it’s like to bring another person’s idea to life.
    1:40 We’re off to a rocky start. Feeling a bit loopy.
    2:20 Brandi’s favorite color is red and sea green. She doesn’t like to wear red, but she loves the color.
    3:27 Is black a color? It depends on if you’re talking about light or pigment. If you’re talking about light, Black is the absence of colors. If you’re talking about pigment, it is all of the colors.
    4:40 Michelle tells a story about the cashier woman at Subway being unsure about the hat she was wearing.
    6:00 Today we will be talking about bringing a clients idea to fruition.
    7:00 Everything relates to process.
    7:06 Brandi teaches design thinking and creative concepts at the local art university. She asks students to write down their process.
    7:40 How do you start your design, and what do you do between the start and final product. It’s eye opening to figure out your process.
    8:00 Brandi has simplified her process into a 7 Step Design Process.
    8:13 Today we will be touching on the 3 most important aspects of her process.
    8:36 Step 1: The Design Brief.
    9:56 The creative brief gives the designer a better scope of the possible client’s design. Then she can give the client a quote.
    10:25 Price sheets or flat rate? It depends on the designer. Brandi does not have a flat rate.
    10:52 Sean Wes talks about value-based pricing. What is this? You don’t base your price on how long it takes you and how much you are an hour. Rather, you charge them by how valuable the design is to somebody. If a company is going to make money off a design, then the designer deserves some of that and should charge accordingly.
    11:24 The brief goes into everything she needs to know: who are you? how long have you been in business? who’s your ideal client? This gives her an idea who she’s designing for and who she’s trying to attract.
    12:03 The brief also weeds out the people who are “just looking”.
    12:42 Some people charge for a proposal, some people don’t.
    12:56 Step 2: Brainstorming/mind mapping.
    13:22 “Use Words First” A design is communication. Communication is words. With design, you communicate with visual AND words, so it only makes sense that your whole process starts with words.
    13:42 If she’s designing a poster for a theatre, for example, The Little Mermaid, She mind maps The Little Mermaid. When she’s done she circles key words that will then become the concept.
    14:11 Step 3: Sketching. Sketch out all of the ideas that relate back to the words you chose in the mind map.
    14:26 This process is a fool proof way to get stuff done. It doesn’t matter if you’re feeling creative or not. If you’re on a deadline, you have to do it, and this helps.
    15:22 To come up with a concept all you need is a pen, paper, and a thesaurus. Check out this app: Power Thesaurus
    17:57 *NSYNC is better than BSB, but whatever.
    18:46 Music is what brings us together. (So deep.)
    19:17 Since we’re talking about how to get someone else’s idea onto paper, we thought it only appropriate to play a cover song. Check out Sleeping at Last’s Covers albums. They’re amazing and beautiful and perfect. Today’s song: As Long As You Love Me (Originally by The Backstreet Boys)
    19:58 Ryan O’Neal of Sleeping at Last takes someone else vision and lyrics, and visualizes through his own eyes & ears. He brings his style to it.
    25 min
  • Six Degrees of Graphic Design – Episode 002

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    Episode 2: Six Degrees of Graphic Design how graphic design is influenced by other forms of design What does La La Land have to do with Design? What kind of designs are there?           TRANSCRIPTION Speaker 1: 00:03 Welcome to design speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by a […]

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    35 min
  • This is Design Speaks – Episode 001

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    This is Design Speaks – Ep 1 An introduction to this Design podcast: Who we are and why we are doing this Show Notes: :52 Elevator Pitch… sort of… Michelle and Brandi introduce each other. Brandi is a graphic designer. “Design makes the world prettier.” Michelle is a production assistant for a team of videographers. […]

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    28 min
  • This is Design Speaks – Episode 001
    This is Design Speaks – Ep 1
    An introduction to this Design podcast: Who we are and why we are doing this
    Show Notes:
    :52 Elevator Pitch… sort of… Michelle and Brandi introduce each other.
    Brandi is a graphic designer. “Design makes the world prettier.” Michelle is a production assistant for a team of videographers. She’s explored the realm of radio and has explored a few facets of the creative world.
    4:12 How old is Brandi? She’s 35. We’re bad at math, and she doesn’t know her own age.
    She loves sports, literature, whimsy, and Sam & Dean from Supernatural.
    6:45 Michelle is 29. She’s sure.
    8:09 Brandi Sea Design thinking education. She has a blog, she has a YouTube. All good things. Go check them out if you have a moment. However, she didn’t feel that she was getting to fully explore some of the things she was talking about and also learning about, thus, the Design Speaks podcast is born!
    10:28 The goal of this particular podcast is to inform people who don’t know about the importance of design and to advance the design thinking of those who already know and love it.
    11:45 We have sparkling personalities, so we hope you keep listening because of how great we are. (Are you convinced?)
    13:00 What do we have in store for you? We want to share what’s inspiring us every week, whether it be music, book covers, books, movies, a shirt we saw at a store… Whatever is on our minds each week.
    14:14 Nothing is off limits because… creativity.
    15:06 Vesperteen – please do yourself a favor and go check out this music. (You’re welcome.) The intro/outro song is kind of our podcast soundtrack. The whole EP has a has great energy, “unfunks” us when we’re in a funk.
    16:10 What We Could Have Been by Vesperteen (not a part of the original EP)
    17:53 Brandi How to stay creative and motivated.
    18:37 A tactic Brandi uses is listening to a specific set of music. Her music of choice is a score by Sleeping as Last called Many Beautiful Things.  Like Pavlov’s Dog, she’s conditioned her mind to be ready to work by the time specific songs hit.
    20:16 She starts playing the score at 5:30 am, and by the second song, her brain gets to work. Ideas happen. It feels like magic.
    20:48 Sean Wes says that it all starts with writing. Regardless of what kind of work you do, you should write every day. If you don’t know what to write about, then free form.
    21:32 Sean Wes says to wake up, feet on the floor, open up your computer or whatever you write with, and write. Don’t delete.
    21:46 Nope – an app for your computer that encourages writing without editing.
    The Most Dangers Writing App – Another great resource to kickstart your writing habits.
    23:42 #6amclub – Brandi is a big fan of Sean Wes.
    24:50 Question of the week: What inspires you?
    25:35 Check out BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, and feel free to chime in with your thoughts, comments, and questions you have about anything graphic design. We’d love to talk about it!
    28 min

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