Works In Process

Robin Landa is a Distinguished Professor at the Michael Graves College at Kean University. She has written twenty-three books about creativity, graphic design, advertising design, branding, and drawing, including Nimble: Thinking Creatively in The Digital Age, Graphic Design Solutions, 6th ed., Designing Brand Experiences, and Advertising by Design, 4th ed. She is now working on a new book aimed at business professionals for Routledge. And she is working on a book proposal with Rich Tu, VP of Design at MTV and Viacom.

She is also a Co-Chair on the governance board of Design Incubation, a design research and practice organization.

We chat about how she started her career as a writer—and what routines she has created to be "non-negotiable" to maintain her output. She also shares her passion for teaching and giving back to the next generation. I hope you can find something that works for you, enjoy!

Mentions

• Graphic Design Solutions
• MindTap
• Start with Why by Simon Sinek 
• Don't Sweat the small stuff by Richard Carlson 

Follow Robin at Personal Website / Instagram / Facebook / Twitter

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Credits

• Produced by HearSay Productions
• Intro / Outro Music: The System Has Failed Us - The Passion HiFi

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Like what you just heard? Support the process and rate us on Apple Podcasts :) 

About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Join AIGA Design + Business Conference chair and host of Works in Process podcast, George Garrastegui, Jr (he/him/his), as he speaks with Katwo + Nico Puertollano of Rezonate. George, Katwo + Nico discuss the importance of representation and language when building a project with clients.

Katwo + Nico are speakers at the 2021 AIGA Design + Business Conference May 12–14, and her collaboration with AARP / Newt Day Better and their  A Living History of the LGBT Movement  will be featured at the virtual event.

Register now with discount code AIGAFRIENDS20 and save $20 off any ticket price. About the AIGA Design + Business conference: https://lnkd.in/ezF8waH

Join AIGA Design + Business Conference chair and host of Works in Process podcast, George Garrastegui, Jr (he/him/his), as he speaks with Sophia Yeshi of Yeshi Designs. George and Sophia will discuss building a freelance business and the importance of having a creative community to support your creative career.

Sophia Yeshi Is a speaker at the 2021 AIGA Design + Business Conference May 12–14, and her collaboration with Debut Capital will be featured at the virtual event.

Register now with discount code AIGAFRIENDS20 and save $20 off any ticket price. About the AIGA Design + Business conference: https://lnkd.in/ezF8waH

That’s my guest Mike Nicholls, He is a creative director, brand strategist, publisher, visual designer, and illustrator. He’s been translating ideas into visionary creative solutions utilizing his over 20 years of design experience and natural talent. Mike is also the founder and creative director of Umber Publishing, an independent publishing house based in Oakland, CA. He visually designs and illustrates the perspective of the contributor, from curation - to content and final magazine design.

We discuss the nuances of the Black and Brown reality and why a publishing platform such as a magazine allows the community to archive their own perspective.

I hope you can appreciate the way we nerd out on typography, culture, and the return to a tactile design experience. Enjoy!

Mentions

Umber Publishing

• Umber Magazine
• Tone
• Slumber

FreakNik

Emigre

Vibe

The Source

Follow Mike at Personal Website   / Instagram

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Credits

• Produced by HearSay Productions
• Intro / Outro Music: The System Has Failed Us - The Passion HiFi

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Like what you just heard? Support the process and rate us on Apple Podcasts :) 

About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Subscribe to Works in Process:

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That’s my guest Teresa Moses, she is a design researcher, creative director, organizer, and educator based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Teresa is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. Her work focuses on race, identity, and social justice. She advocates for positive change in her community using creativity as a tool of community activism.  

Terresa is the Creative Director at  Blackbird Revolt, a social justice-based design studio and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Minnesota’s  College of Design  (CDes) and the Director of its Design Justice Network.

Her design research interests include; Project Naptural, which creates spaces to educate, connect, and empower Black women about their natural hair and self-identity, and Racism Untaught, a curriculum model that reveals ‘racialized’ design and helps students, educators, and organizations create anti-racist concepts through the design research process.

She has so much on her plate, and we dig into it all to find out how she determined that social justice was her calling?

Listen to my convo with Terri and learn how she manages to juggle it all.

Enjoy!

Mentions /Links

• Racism Untaught
• Umbra
• Project Naptural
• Blackbird Revolt
• Emory Douglas

Follow Teresa at Personal Website   / Instagram

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Credits

• Produced by HearSay Productions
• Intro / Outro Music: The System Has Failed Us - The Passion HiFi

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Like what you just heard? Support the process and rate us on Apple Podcasts :) 

About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Subscribe to Works in Process:

Apple Podcast > http://wip.show/apple_podcast

Spotify > http://wip.show/spotify

Google Podcast Music > http://wip.show/googleplay

Stitcher > http://wip.show/stitcher

TuneIn > http://wip.show/tunein

Our guest, Deon Mixon is a Designer, Educator, and Author from Detroit, Michigan. He's a graduate of West Michigan University and alumni of Cass Tech. Deon also wrote a series of books called The Lethal Creed Saga and is a brand identity designer at Gyro.

Our conversation is focused on the fact that he is the creator of the world's first graphic design educational board game, Design Eye that was fully funded on Kickstarter. We focus on How board games are a great way to teach design to young creatives. How he conceived the idea and why having people of color exposed to creativity so important for the future of the profession.

Enjoy!

Mentions /Links

• Gyro - https://gyrocreative.com/
• Landor - https://landor.com/
• The Detroit Rise Flag - https://www.detroitriseflag.com/
• Design Eye - https://www.designeyegame.com/

Follow Deon at Personal Website   / Instagram
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Credits

• Produced by HearSay Productions
• Intro / Outro Music: The System Has Failed Us - The Passion HiFi

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Like what you just heard? Support the process and rate us on Apple Podcasts :) 

About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Subscribe to Works in Process:

Apple Podcast > http://wip.show/apple_podcast

Spotify > http://wip.show/spotify

Google Podcast Music > http://wip.show/googleplay

Stitcher > http://wip.show/stitcher

TuneIn > http://wip.show/tunein

Our guest, Jen White-Johnson a Designer, Photographer, Art Activist, and Art Educator. She teaches as an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at Bowie State University (HBCU) where her work focuses on the intersection of content and caregiving with an emphasis on redesigning ableist visual culture. When her son was diagnosed as Autistic at age 2 she began to examine the absence of black disabled children in digital and literary media, this motivated the release of an advocacy photo zine entitled "KnoxRoxs." Dedicated to her Autistic son, the zine is a way to give visibility to children of color in the black Autistic community. 

Since its release, the zine has received national and international recognition, including features in AfroPunk, Today at Apple, and is permanently archived in Libraries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. This year her activist work has been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Crip Camp, and she was recently selected as an honoree on the 2020 Diversability’s D-30 Disability Impact List.

It’s for her advocacy and her artistic impact that I have on the podcast, and I hope you enjoy the candid nature in which we discuss her artistic voice and how visuals help advance the conversation around black and brown disabled voices.

Mentions /Links

• Music, a film by Sia
• Knox Roxs: The Zine
• Black Disabled Lives Matter
• Mapping Access
• Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network
• BronxNet
• Uninvisible Podcast
• Krip Hop nation

Follow Jen at

Personal Website   /. Instagram  /. Twitter

Credits

• Produced by HearSay Productions
• Intro / Outro Music: The System Has Failed Us - The Passion HiFi

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Like what you just heard? Support the process and rate us on Apple Podcasts :) 

About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Subscribe to Works in Process:

Apple Podcast > http://wip.show/apple_podcast

Spotify > http://wip.show/spotify

Google Podcast Music > http://wip.show/googleplay

Stitcher > http://wip.show/stitcher

TuneIn > http://wip.show/tunein

Don't get too comfortable.

"I kind of feel if I know how to do it, too well, then I'm not having fun— I'm more like executing. So the moment that you shut off and just start doing the same thing that you did for somebody else, or kind of project, again and again, you're kind of losing what makes it so special. So yeah, just get out there and do it!"

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• Sky Pie https://skypie.co/
• Make Love https://skypie.co/make-love-1
• Offf https://offf.barcelona/en/
• Sweet Lies https://skypie.co/sweetlies2
• Marion Favier https://marionfavier.com/
• NYCFotoWorks http://www.nycfotoworks.com/

Credits

• Produced by HearSay Productions
• Intro / Outro Music: “Gotta Get Up” courtesy of The Passion HiFi

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Like what you just heard? Support the process and rate us on Apple Podcasts :) 

About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Subscribe to Works in Process:

Apple Podcast > http://wip.show/apple_podcast

Spotify > http://wip.show/spotify

Google Podcast Music > http://wip.show/googleplay

Stitcher > http://wip.show/stitcher

TuneIn > http://wip.show/tunein

"The capacity to read particularly is not just a nice to have. It's actually a moral imperative. If we want people to be good in the world, this is a huge issue, especially for designers, especially in the type world, especially right. If there's any, if we can say there's any moral claim of what's good for us, (as type designer) is people being able to read."

In this episode, I speak with Thomas Jochin, founder, partner, adjunct lecturer, and practicing type designer. We chatted about how he was inspired by the power of the community to start a typographic meetup called Type Thursday. We also discuss his partnership with a fellow educator to tackle the daunting task of reading proficiency, and It has something to do with type.

Hope you enjoy our in-depth conversation.

People Mentioned:

Jessica Hische

Joshua Darden

Christian Schwartz 

Chester Jenkins

Matteo Bologna

Jeremy Mickel

vllg.com

Bonnie Shaver-Troup

Design recharge, Diane Gibbs

Dribbble

Nadine Chahine

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Help support the process and rate us on Apple Podcasts :) 

About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Subscribe to Works in Process:

Apple Podcast > http://wip.show/apple_podcast

Spotify > http://wip.show/spotify

Google Play Music > http://wip.show/googleplay

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**"the sooner a designer can embrace the process, and if you can learn to work quickly, and in different ways, you can make a lot of different work in a fairly short time frame..." **—  Peter Ahlberg: Designer, Author, Educator

I talk to Peter Ahlberg, partner at Ahl & Co about creating his exhibition and book around the creative process. he mentions what it was like to talk to design icons and write a book from the perspective of someone who teaches and is a grad from the School of Visuals Arts in NYC. He mentions the ways and approaches that link the design process to that of drawing and mark-making. 

It was a fun conversation and learned how his book Please Make this look Nice sparked this very podcast. We discussed all of the iterations of his SVA Poster. Then, he also shares some critical insight into how designers should be working interdisciplinary.

Hope you enjoy it.

Mentions

Experimental Jetset

Lubalin Center

Saul Steinberg

Bob Gill

Michael Rock

Ivan Chermayeff

David Foster Wallace - Brief Interview with hideous men.

Stephen Doyle

Milton Glaser

Richard Wilde

Ed Fella

Gail Anderson

Ed Ruscha

Lawrence Weiner

Tom Waits

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From Peter:

Within the last year, we started a book-making-specific company called Bound Book Advisory (boundbookadvisory.com). In addition to some background work we have done for different clients, since the start of the pandemic we have been quite busy working with makers, thinkers, and generally brilliant and inspired people who have something to say—develop, produce, and publish book projects outside of the typical avenues of book publishing. It has been super exciting and in the coming months we will be launching two notable books—one about natural dying and the other about an exquisitely beautiful collection of printed ephemera salvaged from NYC sidewalks over the last 20 years. We'd obviously love to hear from anyone who has a great book idea bouncing around but doesn't necessarily want to go through a publisher and wait two years for the book to come out.

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About the Works in Process Podcast:

A podcast series by George Garrastegui, Jr. — designer, educator, and creative catalyst. Works In Process is a collection of discussions that exploring and demystify the creative process. I interview individuals to gain more insight into the ways they work and the projects they produce.

Subscribe to Works in Process:

Apple Podcast > http://wip.show/apple_podcast

Spotify > http://wip.show/spotify

Google Play Music > http://wip.show/googleplay

Stitcher > http://wip.show/stitcher

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