The Angry Designer Graphic Design, Freelancing, Branding & Creative Business Podcast

The world of a graphic designer is constantly evolving which requires you to learn new things each project.

Even a seasoned graphic designer will learn new things every day, both in  technical skill, and just straight up life lessons! (It isn't always easy to master the patience of a saint when a customer is asking you to make the black more blacker, make the logo bigger, enlarge the font by 5% ).

In this weeks episode of The Angry Designer Podcast, we talk about the biggest lessons
we've learned as graphic designers over the past 20+ years, share our industry knowledge, and a few laughs and rants along the way.

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At what point do you decide the time is right to fire a toxic customer? How do you know when enough is enough?

Is it when they've royally pis*ed you off beyond repair? 
Is it when they continually believe they know (and can do) your job better than you? 

It's a tricky balance when it comes to difficult clients, because let's face it, being an as*hole isn't a crime (unfortunately).

On this episode of The Angry Designer Podcast, the bearded bears rant about a topic that no one wants to ever come to terms with; when it's time to fire a customer and how to call that professional partnership a day.

• In this episode, you will learn
• when it's time to end  the relationship or put up with it
• the types of toxic customers to fire
• things to consider before you do
• how to fire a customer - the nice way

There are times in a Graphic Designers career when to discard and move on from continually being berated by toxic customers - this episode will hopefully help you identify those times.

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Sometimes a great flick with the right amount of story, music, and pop culture is all you need for inspiration. 

The only problem is that there's such a huge amount of content to stream (much of it a snor) that the best stuff can get lost in the mix. 

Join the Angry Designers as they share a top 10+ list of Graphic Design Movies & Documentaries for Designers & Creative entrepreneurs to find their inspiration for creativity, motivation to get sh#t done or determination to succeed!

Check out The Angry Designer Website for a list recap and more information on each Graphic Design Movie & Documentary covered.

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The best graphic designers come in all shapes and sizes, from all walks of life. But what do they all have in common? They all share a core set of traits - the same traits that transform a good graphic designer, into a kick ass awesome designer!

But what are those traits, we hear you cry?

Join The Angry Designers as they share their top 10 traits of really really successful Graphic Designers. In this episode, the bearded not-so-buff guys share:

• where this list came from
• the traits (you'll have to listen to find those out)
• what it takes to go the distance

This episode will make you realize traits you have, you want to work on to get better at, and ones you need. 

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The beginning of a new year ALWAYS touts a ton of new bullsh*t trends your brand, logos, designs need to follow. How many of these actually empower good design or do they just create visual pollution. 

This week on The Angry Designers, the beardos take us back to design basics and refresh our fundamental design skills, bringing you our top 10 graphic design commandments that will have you creating consistent, top quality work, everytime 🙌

This episode will leave you reinvigorated knowing that following good design commandments will keep your work pure, while following trends will lead to hell for your career and your clients.

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The clock is counting down, the ball is dropping and 2022 is almost upon us. And with it comes some really, really sh*tty design trends.

Join The Angry Designers as they take you through the top 2022 ugly design trends you’re gonna be seeing EVERYWHERE! Buuuuut hopefully not. 

Spoiler alert: a lot of colors, mismatched fonts, and icons

This episode will leave your head spinning heading for the hills when someone asks you to implement the latest design trends to their work.

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Who delivers presents at Christmas? Who led the reindeers with his shiny red nose? What do we put presents under on Christmas eve?

While it's nice to believe these traditions have been around since the beginning of time, the brand of Christmas has been the perfect storm of different cultural traditions, literacy and retail!

Join The Angry Designers this week as they come together to love and hate on how retailers may in fact have stolen Christmas. In this episode the bearded Santa wanna-a-be's discuss:

• The brand of Christmas
• Influence of retail
• Christmas origin stories

and so much more!

We wish you all a Very Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays. 

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Do you often find yourself falling back to using the same type tricks in your work? Whether you think it looks cool or not, you're falling prey to your own safety net. You know it's safe, you know people will nod in acceptance, but does it make you a better designer? Does it push yourself into new uncharted territories?

Join The Angry Designers this week as they tackle a Top 10 list of Letterforms that you need to free yourself from! In this episode you will learn about 

• why we use these techniques
• why you should stop using them
• list of the top 10 overused letterforms

You will laugh. You will cry. And you will feel guilty that you used some (if not all) of these ideas more than once.

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What does it take to keep a customer for decades? Is it only about customer service or is there more to it? 

Join The Angry Designers as they discuss the reality (or secret) of zfactors longest running client relationships and what it took to keep them and the secret to the single greatest driver of new business opportunities. In this charged up episode you will learn about:

• Customer for life idea
• 3 types of clients
• Secret to a Customer for life
• Why you should never sell to a customer

This episode will give you a new way to look at customer relationships that will last a lifetime!

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Around every corner, you hear a new story about someone losing their job to some new, disrupting technology. From retail, to finance, to even web design - it seems no industry is safe from the futurists relentless pursuit of "The wrath of the Robots?"

Join The Angry Designers as they break apart modern day technology in the hopes of revealing if Robots are coming for a Graphic Designers job.

In this episode the bearded bros talk about:
- The Grid Automated website
- Bust techno terminology
- Explain what robots can & can't do
- Advice on how to prevent Skynet from taking your job

This episode will help you watch all of the episodes of Terminator with a new found sense of confidence and fearless attitude that Arnold will not be back. 

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