To kick off the first episode of Feasting on Design, I’m bringing my podcast life full circle and talking with Creative South co-founder and head of design at Aflac, Mike Jones. We sit down and chat about what Creative South has in store for 2019, designing for food packaging, and there is a lot of talk about BBQ. So sit back and break some bread with us on this episode of Feasting On Design.

This week on the Creative South Podcast I’m talking with Ed Roberts. Ed is a designer and creative strategist. He’s written about InHouse design for How magazine, the HOW design blog, and The Creative Group, spoken at AIGA Lead Con, and served on the boards for InSource and IHAF. We chat about how as a member of an in-house team you can align the way you work with the values of your company without being an order taker, the importance of the in-house design team to be a strategic partner to a company’s leadership to help with innovation, and ways you can help build that partnership. and more.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Creative South Podcast for the past 3 years! I'm talking about the future of the Creative South Podcast and announcing Feasting on Design in today's short episode.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Artist, Illustrator, and Designer Lenworth McIntosh, better know as Joonbug. We chat about struggling to fit in as a kid after moving from Jamaica to the United States, how his clothing company Fresh Kaufee lead to him being able to work full time as an illustrator, developing his style through the themes of his work, and more.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Chicago-based UX Designer Sharlene King. We chat about her struggles after she came out as gay and not being supported by her family, the challenges she faced in school from learning disabilities and dropping out of high school, being on the autism spectrum and how it’s become and asset in her work, and more.

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.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Boston University Athletics Creative Marketing Specialist, Wande Salako. We chat about how she got into design after a BS in Psychology, and masters of Science in College Student Personnel Administration and Sports Business, working as the lone designer for Boston University Athletics, how she deals with issues that arise from being a black woman in the sports design world, and more.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with IBM Design Principle, Oen Hammonds. We chat about how IBM uses design thinking to create more empathy within products and divisions, working outside of the digital realm on side projects as a way to reset your brain, his role with in AIGA Austin and what he’s learned as chapter president, and more.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with designer Carlos Estrada. We chat about his interesting path to becoming a designer, how he branched out on his own after years in the publishing world, his role with AIGA’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, and more.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with illustrator Laura Bee, of Ghostly Ferns. We chat about going it on her own as a freelancer right out of the gate after university, how Ghostly Ferns got started and how they operate as independent contractors, how she battled depression and what she did to start taking care of herself, and more.