Joining Gianmarco for this episode of Phase Podcast is Wadzanayi Kim Bwanya, creative director of Beedesigned Studio in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. If you are curious to know what's the life of a creative director in Zimbabwe like, then this episode is for you. As usual, if you enjoy the conversations that we're having on Phase Podcast, please consider giving us feedback on the podcasting platform where you listen to us, or share the word on your social media!

Joining Gianmarco for this new episode of Phase Podcast is Elena Smirnova, a young Russian-born designer currently based in Prague. This episode sees us going back to our regular, full episode format where Gianmarco has a conversation about design with his guest. If you enjoy the podcast, please don't forget to leave a comment or rating and subscribe!

In the first series of Phase Podcast, we heard about your stories and got to know what design means to you. But in keeping with the spirit of the times we're currently living in, we too, need to transform and so we invite you — our listeners, readers, community members — to reach out to us to talk about what changed in the way you approach design, both from a personal and professional perspective. It is believed that change creates change, so why not tell us about your change?

To get in touch, send an email to gianmarco[at]phase[dot]com or write to me on the Phase Community Slack channel (phasecommunity.slack.com).

2020 is coming to a close, so we figured we'd do a special episode to look back at this year, as well as look onwards to 2021. Thanks to everybody who's listened to Phase Podcast so far, we'll be back next year with series two. 

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Here's to a nice end of the year, we see you in 2021! ✌️

Joining Gianmarco for the 8th installment in this first series of Phase Podcast is Gilbert Umeh, an up-and-coming product designer based in Lagos, Nigeria. By listening to the conversation, you will learn how Gilbert got his start in design, how the ongoing pandemic changed the way he works, his future ambitions for himself and for design as a whole, and plenty more.

Joining host Gianmarco for the seventh episode of our podcast is Eleonora Magalli, a digital designer currently based in Bologna, Italy. Eleonora tells how she first got in touch with design, how the pandemic affected her work and what are her hopes for design as a whole going forward.

For episode #6 of Phase Podcast host Gianmarco is joined by Olha Bahaieva, a self-styled human-centered UI/UX designer currently based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In the conversation, frequent Phase Magazine contributor Olha tells Gianmarco how she got started in design, how the pandemic affected her day-to-day work routine, what it meant to be a designer a while back and what it means to be one today, among other topics.

Joining Gianmarco for the fifth episode Phase Podcast is Linus Öhman, a creative from Malmö, Sweden, and the mastermind behind Disrupt.Re. Throughout his several years of experience, he has been involved with pretty much every area of design. By listening to the conversation you can learn which life event led Linus to eventually become a designer, the implications the ongoing pandemic has had for companies and their digitalisation efforts, why Sweden didn't lock down, and why design should be focused on sustainability going forward.

In this fourth episode of Phase Podcast, host Gianmarco has a conversation with designer, writer, and founder Eugen Eşanu. Eugen, who is currently based in Amsterdam, used to run his own design studio in the Dutch capital but is nowadays busy building the ultimate writing tool, Shosho. By listening to the conversation, you will find out how he first got into design, why he believes that writing and designing go hand-in-hand and how the idea for Shosho came about.

Joining us for the third installment of Phase Podcast is Polish-based, Turkish-born textile designer and illustrator Emre Varlı, whose talk with host Gianmarco focused mostly on his design background and education, differences between design education in Turkey and Poland, how he approaches illustration and design tasks and a lot more.