What being a designer is really like (hint: it's a job).

What Being a Designer is Really Like

Makers Radio is a show about art, craft, and design. Through dialogues and interviews, we ask the question, "what makes us make?" Hosted by Leonard Reese-a digital designer in New York-and Tyler Jones-a carpenter in Texas.

Design

Arts

Visual Arts

Ali Chitsaz is a satirical painter from a land where satire is illegal. His absurd paintings criticise
religious dogma, war, and the cliches of contemporary painting itself. Now a displaced artist
based in New York City, Ali continues to struggle to prove himself to a Western audience and to
sustain a serious daily practice.

Showing Everything Dark

Tyler has spent the last several years living in a tranquil setting in east Texas, operating his private furniture making practice. Starting this summer he has picked up and moved to the design district of Dallas, working in a large interior production company. We hear the trials of switching gears. Also Leonard and Tyler discuss the difficulties of working with interior designers, and keeping large projects within budget.

Tyler Moves to Dallas

Miri Park is a self-described creative coder who developed Bunny++, an experimental visual-based computer language. She explains what this means, and how the environment is changing for hybrid designer developers. Also, Tyler and Leonard wrap up the show with the first ever Unsolicited Feedback.

Miri Park

The term horror vacui means 'fear of space.' What is this urge to fill every inch with content, and why does that usually make for crappy design? Leonard and Tyler investigate.

Fear of Space

Tyler video-conferences from Texas to present a lecture on proportion. He and Leonard present to a room of computer developers and graphic designers how fundamentals of design can be applied to modern UI and front-end development. Part of AppPartner lecture series at their offices in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

What Being a Designer is Really Like

Download our free app to listen on your phone