The Design Jones

We chat to Craig about his journey into design from being a professional footballer and finding a love for design all the way to where he is now as an independent designer. He gives us an honest insight into the bumps he had along his journey and how he views those experiences now.

As a well known lettering artist we find out where Craig first got his bug for typography. We talked about one of his well known projects, Lettering meets letterpress, a collaboration with Nicole Arnett Phillips. We also find out what have been the his personal projects from his career so far. We move on to hear what he has been up to recently, including his continued work with Thirst, and what we can expect to see in the near future.

To round out the episode we asked Craig what he does to chill out from work and then get his view on where the industry, and typography in particular, are heading and what he thinks will shape its future.

All the way from Glasgow, we chat to designer, illustrator, typographer and D8's current Design Director Steven Bonner.

We chat to Steven about his journey into the creative industry and his progression into illustration. Steven fills us in on his move to the USA and how it progressed before giving us the details of his move back to Scotland. From here, we hear about his current role at D8 as well as the projects that he felt were pivotal in progressing him to where he is now.

As well as all this we get his view on design awards and how beneficial they have been to him. With time spent at agencies in the UK and across the pond, Steven gives his perspective on the differences and ways of working.

Steven gives us an insight into how he has seen the progression of Scottish designer and creatives before giving us his take on where he thinks the industry as a whole is heading.

We head over to Bristol to chat to the man behind the GBBO illustrations.

We get to hear Tom’s journey into illustration and onto the role of Great British Bake Off illustrator. Tom gives us the details of always wanting to be an artist and going through education trying to find his style.

We hear how his role on GBBO developed and how it has grown over time. As well as his bake off story, Tom gives us an insight into how his work has developed outside of Bake Off and what he does in the rare spare working time he has. After hearing the behind the scenes of Tom’s work he gives us his insight into where he thinks the creative industry is heading.

We get to hear Ben's journey into the creative industry and going from being in a band to being the illustrator he is today. Ben gives us a insight on how he made his personal work he loved to do become his commercial work and also his first book idea.

As we talk more to Ben we get his story behind Professor Astro Cat and how he has developed the work flow between books and what he has learned between them. As we are in Ben's studio, he talks us through some of the eclectic mix of items he has surrounding him in his daily work life. Ben also gives us an insight into how he likes to spend his downtime before giving us his view on where he sees the creative industry going.

We got Luke's story of how he got into the creative industry and found work after university. As we chat to Luke we find out how he got involved with Boat magazine and how that led to an invite to pitch for Monotype and their relaunch of The Recorder.

Luke gives us an insight on what it is like to work on each issue of The Recorder and how his time on Boat magazine set him up for the workflow on The Recorder as well as working remotely. Moving on we get to hear what he is up to at the moment and what is coming up. To end, we asked Luke where he thinks the design industry is heading and what he thinks will shape it.

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For this episode we are joined by the talented Paul Felton. We get the background on Paul's career and his journey into design. Paul gives us the details of working at Purpose and the vast array of projects he has been able to work on. Paul also picks out his highlights from this time as well as filling us in on his recent ventures. We talked to Paul about his typographic book and exhibition and an email from 'Satan'. To finish Paul gives us his thoughts on where the creative industry is heading.

Episode twenty eight sees us joined by both founders of Notworking event GLUG, Nick Clement and Ian Hambleton. We get to hear both their journeys into the creative industry up to where they are now. Ian gives us the details of the recent formation of Output Group and the reason behind the move. Both Nick and Ian give us a little insight into the future of GLUG events and what we might expect in the future. As well as this we hear about some of their past projects and to end they let us know what they think will shape the creative industry and where it is heading. Special addition to the intro provided by the excellent Paul Hunter plus make sure you listen until the end for Nicks version (both recorded at GLUG London, December 2015). Proper tidy!

For this instalment of The Design Jones we are joined by the man behind Superfried. Mark gives us his unusual journey into the creative world and details some of his work highlights. We talked to Mark about how important music based work was for him early on and also delved into his side projects. Mark chats to us about his blog, Idea, and it's history and future. To round up, as always, we get an insight into what Mark thinks will shape the future of the creative industry.