Close the books. You’re in a different kind of classroom today.⁠

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Hear from the people who who know internships. 💡 Na Rojanusorn @naspock, Hannah Small @hnnhsmall, Tom Lander @tomlander_, Es Youn @es.youn. We’d love to show what we’ve learned from talking to them.⁠ We ask and discuss the current state of internships in the creative industry.

Close the books. You’re in a different kind of classroom today.⁠

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Hear from the people who grow internships. 🌱 Listen @listendotco, Gretel @gretelnyc, and Butchershop @butchershopcreative. We ask and discuss the current state of internships in the creative industry.

Simon Dixon is co-founder of DixonBaxi an international branding agency. As a designer, creative director and strategic thinker, Simon has explored where creativity, design, and technology overlap for well over two and a half decades.

We discuss so many great topics focused on confidence, rejection, and self-control. Simon shares some incredible insights you might not expect someone with over 2 decades of experience to say. His take on accessibility for people not just decision makers at companies is worth the listen alone.

We also discuss:

- Rejecting fear, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome

- The bullshit ways in the industry you "should" work

- The reward of taking risks and falling versus not taking them at all

- Rejecting the idea of settling and not falling into the comfort trap

- The risk of creating bubbles when we don't celebrate differences

- How creativity defines who you are

- Your job is to focus on how you can improve your part of the world with the skills you have

- Finding people to invite to your culture who add richness instead of people who replicate you

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frequencies-by-wgi-moving-change-simon-dixon-dixonbaxi/id1532557377?i=1000522075598

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/46VsrqHgV2avlK8sySfHIQ?si=b49b5684c94f45d3

Dylan Mulvaney is Head of Design at Gretel, where he began as an intern 11 years ago. Today he uses his expertise in translating core values, strategy, and voice into striking visual executions for clients like Vice, Netflix, Knoll, and MoMA.

We discuss the importance of trying a lot of things when you’re young. The value of creating strong connections during an internship, and what it takes to go from intern to Head of Design at one of the best creative studios around.

Dylan shares Gretel’s creative and branding process. What it’s like to move through a project from discovery, to strategy, to the creative connecting and output.

We also discuss:

- The importance of making yourself invaluable by widening your scope and contributing to projects you’re not assigned to.

- Thinking about the process of a project and start breaking it down and think about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it at each stage, and try to develop systems and templates that can help you along.

- Trying to be a bridge between different people and teams in the studio and try to help solve any problems or miscommunications.

- Looking around what’s happening in the studio internally, website, case studies, capabilities decks, and side projects.

- Asking the right questions at the right time: Does this solve the problem? Is it representative of the client? Is it driven by some structure or underlying principle? Is it scalable? Is it memorable? Are these elements distinct and different enough from one another?

And Dylan shares one of the greatest secrets in success: just do the work. There’s no shortcuts. You kinda need to just get up early and put in the hours. You only get better by doing the work.

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frequencies-by-wgi/id1532557377#episodeGuid=tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F975489418

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2BPKzsYEFzNZgBzbGjHwW7?si=KHJpLPEsRiCHudKvzby3LA

Jessie White started as Instrument's first designer in 2011, and is now Executive Creative Director, playing a pivotal role in the studio's growth. She's led engagements for stand out brands like Stumptown Coffee, Nike, Google, The Met, and Dwell. In this episode of Frequencies we discuss a variety of topics that impact individuals and the creative process; the never ending pursuit of learning, the stories we tell ourselves, being the center of attention even when you don’t like it, and not waiting for someone else to solve your problems.

Listen on

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frequencies-by-wgi-from-pixels-to-people-with-jessie-white/id1532557377?i=1000500699107

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gSB5X5je6JerqMkcuKkbe?si=OXCBzC5gSYKaXqlBMBoMaQ

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=79768078

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/worldsgreatestinternship/frequencies-by-wgi-from-pixels-to-people-with-jessie-white

Wgi website: https://www.worldsgreatestinternship.co

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James Gilmore, Creative Director of DesignStudio joins us to share his journey—starting off designing for the coolest underground labels, DJs, and bands to present day of shaping and guiding some of the world’s most revered brands. He discusses what it is was like when he started and compares it to what it takes today—solving complex problems for global companies. He dives into some big decisions he’s made in his life, what it’s like to guide the team at DesignStudio, unlocking and unblocking creativity, and reminds us we shouldn’t be creating work that everybody loves.

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Butchershop Creative: www.butchershop.co

DesignStudio: https://design.studio

Donald Burlock joins us to discuss his journey as a creative leader having worked at IDEO, Dolby Labs, Facebook, and Capital One. He shares some lessons learned along his way and talks to us about the book he’s working on titled Super Human by Design. He tells us about the critical ingredients to becoming super human not only in your career but in life: consciousness (self-awareness), connection, and community.

Links we discussed:

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555

Free Solo with Alex Honnold is available to stream on Hulu, iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, and Google Play

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frequencies/id1532557377

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6wcGtXz1kqOvVo6DSs5Ys1

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=77893013

Google Podcasts: not yet available, wait a few days

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/worldsgreatestinternship/frequencies-episode-01-with-donald-burlock

Wgi website: https://www.worldsgreatestinternship.co

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Butchershop Creative: https://www.butchershop.co