Podcast appearances and mentions of frankie ratford

And we're back! We've had a bit of a break while we started new full-time work, parented, and thought about what the future of ADR might look like. One of the big changes we've made is a new format that explores one topic over three episodes with three different guests. On this episode, Matt is joined by Stephanie Foti to interview our favourite creative nomad, Frankie Ratford. We explore the question, ‘what makes a great design teacher,' a perfect question for Frankie who has been holding Designers Bootcamps all around the world, allowing people to question what it is they want from their career and hit the reset button if they need to. As always, a big thank you to Streamtime, our supporting partner, always finding ways to give back to the Australian design industry. Give them a try with a 20% discount, you won't be sorry you did. ___ Frankie's website / Frankie's Insta / Designer's Bootcamp / The Design Kids / The Aframe --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/australian-design-radio/message

Frankie Ratford is an Australian designer and entrepreneur who runs The Design Kids, a company she founded which bridges the gap between studying and working within the graphic design industry. She started The Design Kids in 2009 and launched with a market stall in the front yard with some mates and a DJ stool. The Design Kids is now a global online resource for thousands of students and graduate graphic designers, with many local offline communities around the world too. Their aim is to educate, inspire and connect young people to the design industry. Today's episode will look more at Frankie's story and how she started the Design Kids whilst balancing multiple day jobs, flying to work every week and overcoming huge challenges in starting a business. Brought to you by 99 Percent Lifestyle magazine. Follow us on: Instagram - @99PercentLifestyle Twitter - @Pathfinders_Pod Website - 99 Percent Lifestyle

Design Your Life podcast E017 with Vince Frost in conversation with Frankie Ratford, founder of The Design Kids. Frankie always wanted to be a designer in Australia. Following a family holiday to Oz as a child, she made it her goal to study and work here and at 18 made the move from her homeland England to study design in Melbourne. After seeing Vince Frost speak at a design event Frankie became “obsessed” and was determined to land a role with Frost*collective. A few years in, she came to the realisation that full-time studio work was not her dream and decided to travel and reflect on what her creative purpose could be. Almost 10 years later Frankie has become one of the world's leading experts on the Graphic Design industry. Having founded The Design Kids; a global online/office resource bridging the gap between studying and working in design across 33 countries, Frankie has spent over six years on the road building a global design community of 140,000+ people from the ground up. Her new coaching arm takes advantage of all the knowledge she gained, looking at each of the nine business elements from a client perspective and industry perspective. She works with studios as an outside perspective to help get the right clients, position the studio where it needs to head, improve their digital presence and most importantly, their bottom line. In this episode, Frankie relives the moment when she walked away from her successful studio career to make discoveries about what she really wanted and was capable of. Here, Frankie shares her journey from the terrifying but deliberate choice to take the road less travelled and not follow the prescribed career trajectory she'd been told to follow, and how it made her realise the problems in the current state of design education. Stay tuned for Episode 018 featuring Artist and Designer, Gemma O'Brien. frankieratford.com frostcollective.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Frankie Radford is the Founder of The Design Kids, an online resource and community of over 175,000 Design Students across 33 countries. Frankie spent six years building this community, physically traveling to 70+ cities, giving talks at universities, running workshops and personally interviewing over 1,500 Creative Directors. Along the way, Frankie has become one of the world's leading experts on the Graphic Design industry and having recently completed the roadtrip we sat down with her in our Byron Bay studio to hear all about her One Wild Ride. https://onewildride.co/podcast/2019/1/frankie-ratford-the-design-kids

Design Your Life podcast Episode 016 with Vince Frost in conversation with Aussie-made-global icons Dare Jennings and Carby Tuckwell, founders of cult brand Deus ex Machina. Dare, founder of quintessential Aussie surf brand Mambo, and Carby, former creative director of Moon Design, launched Deus ex Machina into Australia's cultural consciousness in 2006, with some neatly customised motorcycles and a quaint notion that ‘doing something' is more fun than just ‘owning something'. Deus ex Machina (Day-us ex Mack-in-er; meaning ‘God from the machine' in Latin) is a step bigger than a brand: it's a culture. The pair's openness and enthusiasm strike a chord with people, wherever they are, to celebrate a culture of creativity. In this episode, Dare and Carby relive the moment when they walked away from their highly successful careers, to launch something completely untested and daring. Here, the pair share their journey from what was just an idea to a now thriving global brand, and the secret to living their philosophy of success where: “there's no ‘right way' to do individualism, it's all the same juice.” Stay tuned for Episode 017 featuring Illustrator and Founder of The Design Kids, Frankie Ratford. Deus ex Machina frostcollective.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special episode, we went to Perth with our friend Frankie Ratford and held a panel with local legendary designers Becky Chilcott, Mark Braddock and Kylie Timpani. We spoke about work-life balance or lack thereof, burnout, how we deal with moving forward in our work, education, internships and industry and community issues. This is a recording from a live event so the audio quality isn't perfect, but we believe the content from the panel was excellent and worth sharing. Big thanks to our mate at Streamtime getting us to and from Perth to run this special event. Kylie Timpani kylietimpani.com Mark Braddock blockbranding.com Becky Chilcott chil3.com Frankie Ratford frankieratford.com

FFF's Glenn Garriock chats with designer Frankie Ratford about The Design Kids and her epic road trip across Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Europe. Full transcript and images on https://formfiftyfive.com/features/fff-podcast-frankie-ratford/ Background track by Benji Lewis https://www.mammalsounds.com/benji-lewis

Episode 50 with Frankie Ratford on The Road Less Traveled In this episode, we catch up with our very first guest and good friend, Frankie Ratford from The Design Kids. We interviewed Frankie in our very first ADR episode and since then, Frankie has been on a mammoth two-year trip, covering New Zealand, the United States and Canada, connecting designers, building TDK cities and spreading the Aussie design love. When we sat down with her she had two days left before she headed back to her seaside shack in Tasmania for a much needed break. It was the perfect time to gather her thoughts about what she had achieved in that time and hear the crazy stories of what life on the road can be.   thedesignkids.org instagram.com/thedesignkids instagram.com/frankieratford Hitchhiking signs Search #tdkthumbsup on instagram Brand New Conference tinyurl.com/huk3whg Will Bryant willbryant.com instagram.com/willbryantplz Kate Bingaman Burt katebingamanburt.com instagram.com/katebingburt AIGA Conference
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In this episode, we spoke to designer, author, illustrator, artist, experimenter Timothy Goodman from New York. Recorded during the second day of the Adobe MAX conference in San Diego we took some time away from activities to sit with Tim and talk through his recent projects and his thoughts on design as a practice, not a profession. Tim is well known for his collaborations with Jessica Walsh on the cult 40 days of dating and the more recent 12 kinds of kindness in which they explored projects to increase their understanding of empathy. Tim’s second book, The Sharpie Workshop explores his love of the permanent markers and how they have influenced his work and writing. Unfortunately, Flyn had to run for a flight but our good friend Frankie Ratford (from The Design Kids) was able to fill in. tgoodman.com instagram.com/timothygoodman Lynsey Addario lynseyaddario.com Janet Echelman echelman.com Quentin Tarantino tinyurl.com/jfpthm8 Collins wearecollins.com 40 days of dating fortydaysofdating.com 12 kinds of kindness 12kindsofkindness.com Sharpie Workshop tinyurl.com/gvnyxn9 The Design Kids thedesignkids.org

In this, the very first episode of Australian Design Radio, we talk with Frankie Ratford Founder of The Design Kids. Frankie is one of the most active people in the design industry, having founded TDK in 2009 she's worked all over Australia including traveling tours in the TDK bus and more recently jumping from city to city for the TDK Fourplay exhibitions.