Frankie Ratford is the founder of The Design Kids (TDK), an organisation that bridges the gap between studying and working in graphic design. It’s a global community of 275,000 designers, running 495 events a year. 

Frankie also coaches design studios around the world, on their market positioning.

In this episode we discuss Frankie’s recent venture: Designer’s Bootcamp, a program that takes groups of 20 designers to exotic locations, to workshop their career goals over 8 days. Frankie shares how she’s been forced to pivot this program to work during a pandemic. 

We discuss Frankie’s journey to 73 cities across the globe, growing The Design Kids, what inspires her, and how she has designed her life around the things that excite her. 

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Frankie’s profile: 

Combining her love of design, business and travel, Frankie is one of the world’s leading experts within the Graphic Design industry on how to position your studio or business, get more clients and how you look online. She single handedly visited over 2000 of the world top design studios across 33 countries and got a detailed overview of how the business was run from the Founders themselves. No one else has such a global advantage. Frankie’s set up three thriving businesses of her own and regularly gives guest lectures, workshops, private coaching and group bootcamps in all corners of the globe. 

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