This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Deputy Art Director at AARP, Dian Holton. We chat about how moving around as a kid while her dad was in the military allowed her to be open minded and adaptable as an adult, getting into graphic design after planning on going to college for fashion design & becoming interested in news and publication design while in school, how AARP adjusts to an ever changing market and evolving psychographics, getting involved with AIGA an how it’s helped shape her career, and more.

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Design influences the world around us every day. We chat with designers, illustrators, photographers, and others to find out the stories that made them want to get into the creative world as a career, and talk with chefs, bartenders, restaurateurs and anyone else that uses their creative talent about how they use their creative talents to design their menus and restaurants. 

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This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Oce Eagan, Founder and Creative Director at Blind Tiger Design, a creative, strategy and marketing agency specializing in the unique needs of the craft food and beverage industry. We chat about how she started Blind Tiger, changes in the beverage market that are leading to exciting new opportunities past designing for beer, how they manage client expectations, changes they were forced to make do to COVID, and so much more.

Oceania Eagan, Founder of Blind Tiger Design

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Bill Kenney, CEO of FocusLab. We chat about how FocusLab has evolved into a branding firm and what that means, the importance of communication at every stage of a project, we do a deep dive on branding, and so much more.

Bill Kenney, CEO of FocusLab

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Will Brown, Founder of InterApp an Augmented reality marketing platform. We talk about how InterApp utilizes traditional print design to create and augmented reality experience for your clients customers, building AR campaigns around demographics and geotargeting, working with designers to build product awareness and utilization, and so much more.

Will Brown, CEO of InterApp

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Antionette Carroll from Creative Reaction Lab. We talk about accessibility issues—especially as they pertain to language barriers, addressing our biases and learning to overcome them, understanding that life is a journey and it’s our responsibility to learn and grow as humans, growing and sustaining Creative Reaction Lab, and so much more.

Antionette Carroll

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Jeremy and Jordan Coon from Brethren Design Company. We talk about how they collaborate on work using Adobe Libraries as a way to share work back and forth, how they are able to be more selective with clients because the both work full time jobs, designing beer packaging, cannabis branding, designing for Guy Fieri, and so much more.

152: Dian Holton

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