We’re heading back to the most recent Creative South. I sat down with a ton of talented designers and illustrators during the conference and talked about all kinds of stuff. This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Lisa Quine, and Ryan and Kaleb from Always Abounding. Sit back and relax, strap into your way back machine, and enjoy the show.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with designer, hand lettering artist, and author Cristina Vanko. Cristina and I chat about hiding that she was majoring in art from her mom until her senior year of college, collaborating on 100 day projects with a copywriter friend to help push each other further, how her book “Adultish” came to be and what she learned while writing it, and more.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with artist and design educator, Aggie Toppins. Aggie and I talk about using design as a contribution to society rather than just serving a clients needs, how she made the shift in her design philosophy to have a set of convictions that helped her discover who she was a designer, traveling to expand her design language and what communication looks like in other cultures, and more.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with artist and design educator, Alma Hoffmann. Alma and I chat about growing up in Puerto Rico, struggling with self-doubt throughout college and graduate school, dealing with racism and bigotry because of her accent, and more.

We’re heading back to the most recent Creative South. I sat down with a ton of talented designers and illustrators during the conference and talked about all kinds of stuff. This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Josh Ariza and Jamal Collins. Sit back and relax, strap into your way back machine, and enjoy the show.

This week on the Creative South Podcast I’m talking with designer and illustrator, Brittany Barnhart. Brittany and I talk about how attending Weapons of Mass Creation while in college helped solidify her desire to be a designer, the importance of remaining curious and learning new things, dealing with a nightmare client and the lessons she learned, and more,

This week on the Creative South Podcast I’m talking with artist, designer, and Creative South Alumnus Lydia Kuekes. Lydia and I chat about sticking with graphic design after being rejected twice from her college program, why she went back for her masters degree after five years of working professionally, how we can use our talents as designers for good and to promote change, how she got into block printing and what it’s done to make her work better.

This week on the Creative South Podcast I’m talking with artist and designer, Andrew Hochradel. Andrew and I chat about how Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas triggered an interest in creating worlds through the arts, how he balances teaching Graphic Design History at California Baptist University, working as Lead Designer for Sandals Church, as well as freelancing and other creative side projects, how he determines what kind of side projects and freelance work he takes on, and more.

This week on the Creative South Podcast I’m talking with artist and designer, Jon Contino. Jon and I chat about playing in bands as a kid and designing the cover art for the tapes they made, the importance of understanding typography before diving into hand lettering, the process of working with Hollywood studios on key art for movies, using client boundaries to push your work further in a new directions, and more.