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It’s time to tackle the stuff you’ve been avoiding. Yup. In this episode, Kiera shares her experience with home buying and how it’s related to upkeep in dental practices. To sum it up: What is the deferred maintenance on your practice? Have you taken temperature checks on cancellations, AR, statements, how protocols have changed with COVID-19?  If you’re leaving these tiny items unfixed and unaddressed for too long, they stack up! Let the Dental A-Team help you. Take our quiz here to see how systematized you are. You can also email us at hello@thedentalateam.com to get a copy! Our challenge to you: Fix the deferred maintenance THIS QUARTER! We believe in you, and we’re also here to help. You can always reach us at www.TheDentalATeam.com. 

After a longer than anticipated hiatus, the guys are back, much like Vanilla Ice, with a brand new invention... No? I thought for sure that joke would land... Anyway, the guys end up recording a shorter, more cohesive show this time around and skip the usual streaming picks.   Our resident cat whisperer, Alex, was unable to find any cats to whisper to, so he switched to birds this week. That’s right, he bit the bullet and watched Birds of Prey so no one else has to. He all but confirms the review from the previous episode and saves the listeners time and money.   As organically as the guys can do it, conversation moves to a new segment, “This Quarter in Cinema”. As with most things, the guys have taken liberty with terms quarter AND cinema. In their estimation, you need to see maybe two movies this quarter. Which one? Listen and find out, you charlatans!!    The guys finish off with what is likely their last Oscar discussion until the late 2020 award season. Enjoy the show!!     #allpopnoculture #hbo #hbogo #hbonow #netflix #netflixandchill  #amazonprime #hulu #appletvplus #disneyplus #popculture #movies #television #youtube #streaming #cbsallaccess #birdsofprey #alexlovescats #sonicthehedgehog #aquietplace2 #onward #Mulan #oscars #oscars2020 #1917 #joker #parasite

This week we are going to talk about the fine line between being inspired by someone else's work and stealing other creatives' ideas. It's going to be an intense conversation, buckle up! Michelle’s week: Michelle’s week/weeks have been exhausting and busy. She’s been using the app Headspace and even that is hard because it reminds her that her body hurts. She just finished a huge project for work out in Angel Fire, New Mexico, and ended up working 30ish hours. Bright side she was able to take comp time which was super helpful. With that comp time she took her daughter to the swimming pool, sadly got rained out but they did get an actual real rain check which she used later in the week.   Brandi’s week: Brandi also helped with the project that Michelle had for work. She hasn’t gotten to work behind the scenes on a shoot in a very long time so that was really fun for her. She also got to speak to a design group, Coffee and Creatives. Every quarter they have some workshop things and they asked Brandi to speak this time. She spoke on creating ads for social media and she really enjoyed it. Her title for her talk was, “More than just a pretty typeface”. She also partially homeschools her children and this was the year to go through and reorganize her school room. It was a massive overhaul and her mom and sister both came to help her with it. And she also found out that she doesn’t need to buy any new school supplies this year which is very exciting. Then Kenny, Brandi’s husband, turned the part of the attic above the kids bedrooms into a fun attic play area for them. Though that meant there was debris from that all over their rooms which meant cleaning, which turned into cleaning and organizing both of her kid’s rooms. Not super exciting but accomplishing for sure.  Takeaways from this episode: Work from sketches. It’s so important and it’s basically evidence proving how you got your idea.  Design and art are your intellectual property.  If something looks exactly the same, it’s stealing. If the look is the same, but the colors are different, it’s stealing. It’s easy to steal and not realize you’re doing it. This is why you need to have multiple references in the same style while you are working so it keeps it differently mixed by you. It is okay and can be good to copy when you are learning your techniques, but once you know how to do it, make it your own. When in doubt, don’t, or ask. Always give credit.  It’s a fine line between inspiration and stealing. If you make something that is too similar to something else, keep it to yourself and chalk it up to experience.   Brandi’s song: "Heartbreak Magic" by Riah             Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.         TRANSCRIPTION: Speaker 1: 00:02 Welcome to Design Speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by a graphic design geek and a regular human being. AKA a non-designer. We are here to chat about music, pop culture, cool places,

This week we are interviewing the lovely, insightful, kind, and unbelievable design strategist, Karin Hibma-Cronan. Get your notebook ready, you're in for a treat! INTERVIEW with Karin Hibma-Cronan on Design Strategy & Clarity - Episode 107   Takeaways: "Design thinking and the creative process are potent strategic ingredients in any worthwhile endeavor." The best clarifying question you can ask is, “what’s your objective?”  Also ask yourself, “who cares?” Meaning, who is your audience. And remember that you also need to care.  "Getting people to feel open and honest about expressing their feelings opens up another whole channel of connection and creativity." Be in the moment. Like when you are spending time with a child and you can engage with them in the moment. Words are so important! They are the basis of our understanding of what the actual problem is that we're trying to solve and what the opportunities are to solve it. Create a safe place for your clients. When they feel safe you can ask questions like, “who cares?” and “Who do you think you are?” And they won’t feel like you are degrading them. Designers often forget that they need to continue to learn.  Never underestimate the power of the imagination and the power of play. And remember that you don’t play alone, you play with other people. Talk to the key decision-makers right from the beginning.  Questions we ask everyone: What are you listening to, reading, or watching that is blowing your mind?  -She recently has gotten into podcasts and she is a great appreciator of Design Speaks! Can you describe yourself in 3 words? -Happy, loving, and warm What’s the first thing you do in the morning? -Writing first thing in the morning. Usually about what happened throughout the previous day. Processing those things with a clear rested mind. And her younger son has been encouraging her to do morning paintings which makes her nervous but she is going to try it. How do you want to be remembered? -Trusting the gut is inspiring. "My husband used to say that I could make CEO's cry. And I thought I didn't know what he meant when he said, care about them. You, you want to know what they think, what they feel. And so many times they've been so busy running their businesses that nobody's really asked them about what they care about or what they do." [clear-line] This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com. THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.         TRANSCRIPTION  Brandi Sea: 00:01 Hey, I'm Brandi Sea Michelle: 00:03 And I'm Michelle. On today's episode, we are going to be interviewing the wonderful Karen Hibma Cronan.  Brandi Sea: 00:09 So, um, I first met Karen. Um, I, I was wanting to go to the AIGA leadership conference in Dallas a couple of years ago. And, um, because AIGA New Mexico is such a small board and it was even smaller at the time, we just didn't have the finances, um, to send more than just me. And I wanted to figure out a way to kind of reduce costs. So I got onto the AIGA message boards for AIGA national and was just like, hey, is there anyone who needs a roommate? And, um, two people responded and one of them was Karen Hibma. And, um, I don't remember why the other person didn't work out, but, um, Karen was just so sweet, like over messaging and was like, yeah, I would love to room with you. And, um,

This week Brandi finishes sharing the second half of her road trip through the midwest and all of the interesting, and inspiring things she found!   Michelle’s week: This past week was the 4th of July and it was Michelle's daughter's birthday. That meant planning the birthday party, and that party was completely unicorn-themed. Including unicorn dog (Just normal corn dogs, not rainbow flavored). Lots of colors and Michelle made it through alive! So proud of her! Michelle is also very busy with work as it as they begin to film a new series. She got her introvert time by going home, cleaning a bit then, having dinner, and then watching the Bachelor. And Michelle is getting a massage before she starts another week of stress. Michelle didn't bring a song this week, but she has been listening to a lot of Billie Elish.   Brandi’s week: Brandi saw Spiderman Far from Home and she liked it a lot. Brandi is also catching up on Handmaid's Tale and she likes where they are taking the show. Brandi also found a new podcast called Bring Backup. It's a deep dive into each episode of Veronica Mars podcast and Brandi is loving it. She also had a big party for the 4th of July as it is her mother-in-law's birthday. And she is also working on getting some freelance gigs going which is a bit of a pain, but it will all be worth it in the end.  Inspiration on the road: Brandi's highlight from Chicago was the Museum of Science and Industry. It was mainly her husband Kenny's top choice, but she ended up loving it as well. She especially loved the Tesla Coil.  Also in Chicago, they rented Devvy bikes to ride around the wooden garden and Japanese Gardens.  They also stopped at a mirror maze that made Brandi feel like she had walked through the looking glass. It had colors that changed which was so fun. It also gave her a lot of inspiration for here Alice book cover that she has been working on. They also stopped at the Art Institute of Chicago. And a tip for those traveling, It's usually cheaper to visit museums if you get a yearly pass because they come with free stuff and you can visit special exhibits for free rather than paying extra. Plus, if you go back within the year you get to visit again for free! And on the last day in Chicago, they went on an architecture tour of Chicago. To Brandi, Chicago feels like the “lovechild” of New York and San Francisco. It has the big city vibes of New York and the chill vibes of San Francisco and Brandi loved it. Next stop was Sioux Falls South Dakota which is where Hugh Weber is from! Brandi and her family got to meet up with him for lunch and then a stop to see the actual Sioux Falls. Next were the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore at sunset. They stayed at the KOA in the Black Hills which is like a full resort KOA!  Next stop was Denver to visit Family and eat at Torchy’s tacos which is now in Denver. Brandi says they are better in Austin. And the last stop was camping for Father’s Day at Navajo Dam. Brandi’s song: Windows by Frankie Cosmos The Dramatic Chipmunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw Brandi mentions the podcast: Bring Backup          Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook,

This week Joelle joins Brandi to host the podcast! She wants to know what Brandi's least favorite and most favorite things about design are. Joelle’s week: For those that don't know, Joelle works at a cactus and succulent nursery that is local to the New Mexico area. This is her favorite time of year because all of the cacti are blooming and you get to see the different flowers that each of the cactuses have. You can see those flowers on her Instagram via @mrsjoelle_kaniff. She also joined a family Father's Day camping trip which she hadn't been camping in at least 10 years. And lastly, she got bangs which surprising she is loving. At 18 she thought she'd never do it again, but apparently not.   Brandi’s week: Talking about the camping trip we learn that smores are Brandi's downfall and sadly we didn't have any on our camping trip which is a bummer, but maybe a good thing since Brandi did end up getting a cold on the trip. Over the camping trip, Brandi read one of her Veronica Mars books which was really exciting. She loved it. Brandi is a Marshmallow (a huge fan of Veronica Mars) for those who don't know. She is very excited about the new seasons of Veronica Mars coming to Hulu at the end of July. Brandi has also been hard at work with her website update and she has made some great progress on that. And lastly Brandi has been watching World of Dance with her family and she's actually really been loving it. She really loved one specific routine that used color to change and reflect the emotion. Takeaways from this episode: Sometimes, you can get caught up in one part of the design because it may not match completely with what you have in your brain.  There are so many different things you can do for hierarchy in the design. "Z" "N" "W". Don't get stuck on one just because it's easy. It's okay to want to do things differently. It’s easy to get caught up in one step of the process. Be careful and set time limits. Sometimes you just need to have some empathy. Clients are going to do things that won’t make sense to you when you “pass off your baby” (give them the final design). It’s okay, things happen. Sometimes people are stupid but you don’t need to say it out loud.  Assume positive intent. Some clients just may not understand. Try and have some helpful advice for them.  Songs: Joelle’s song: Same by Josie Dunne Brandi’s song: Hunnybee by Unknown Mortal Orchestra         Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.                       TRANSCRIPTION Joelle: 00:00 Yeah, I do not. I hate being sick Brandi Sea: 00:02 Not sponsored. Yeah. Joelle: 00:03 If they wanna sponsor us Brandi Sea: 00:05 No, I don't want to be sponsored by Zicam. What does that say about me? Joelle: 00:08 It's true, a design podcast sponsored by Zicam. Brandi Sea: 00:08 That'd be weird. If this was like a health podcast. That would make more sense. Joelle: 00:13 Oh gosh, so funny

                    This week we're sharing an interview Brandi did on another podcast with one of her design college alumni. They chat about how Brandi got her business going, choosing motivation, and process (of course). Takeaways from today's episode:  Motivation is a choice. It is a mindset we must choose. Take advantage of the spare minutes. Find things that are keeping you from being productive and start setting boundaries with those things.  Creativity is still work. Sometimes you may not feel creative, but push through and choose to be creative. When designing, it shouldn’t be about feelings it should be the objective choosing of things. Especially when it comes to something as important as brands. Things you collect can inform your creativity. They help you become passionate about something and that helps your design work. Give your client a few options, but keep the number down to a few, 3 is a good number. It will save you many frustrations and you will avoid the “mystery cake” design. Authenticity in branding is key.         Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.                       TRANSCRIPTION Intro: 00:03 Welcome to design speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by a graphic design geek and a regular human being, AKA a non-designer. We're here to chat about music, pop culture, cool places and basically whatever we feel is relevant. Brandi Sea: 00:37 Hey guys, I'm Brandi Sea and you're listening to episode one oh three of design speaks. This week it's just me again here because I was sick all week after returning from our two week road trip and Michelle and I weren't able to get together to record so her and I will be chatting more next week about all the craziness of my road trip and all the fun places we went and all the amazing and inspiring things that I saw. So, um, hope you're excited for that. For today, I am going to be sharing an interview that I did on another friend's podcast. His name is Shannendoah Gallagher and he's from sociallinus.com. That's his design business. And he asked me if I would be one of his first interviews. Um, he's gearing up to launch his own podcast. So I recorded with him last summer and while his podcast is not ready to launch, he said very graciously that I could share this one early. Um, and so I wanted to do that. So today's episode is with Shannendoah Gallagher from sociallinus.com. We talk about my process, how I think, um, creativity and choosing motivation, all the things that you guys hear me talking about here, but kind of from a little bit of a different angle as I am the one being interviewed. So I hope you enjoy it and we can't wait to share more with you guys next week. Shannendoah: 02:04 Welcome to the Social Linus podcast. This is Shannendoah Gallagher. I am sitting down, stay with Brandi Sea Heft-Kniffin Brandi Sea: 02:14 Kniffin Shannendoah: 02:14 I'm sorry. Of brandisea.

                    This week is a special encore of our second episode ever, "Six Degrees of Graphic Design". I hope you enjoy listening to a throwback episode! Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.                       TRANSCRIPTION Speaker 1: 00:03 Welcome to design speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by a graphic design geek and a regular human being, AKA a non-designer. One has questions, the other likely has answers. We want to talk about everything from what keeps us creative to your cousin who thinks they're a designer just because they own Photoshop. We're here to chat about music, pop culture, cool places, and basically whatever we feel is relevant. Brandi: 00:37 Hey guys, welcome. I'm Brandi Michelle: 00:40 And I am Michelle. Brandi: 00:42 You're listening to episode two Michelle: 00:44 Dose Brandi: 00:45 Of design speaks Michelle: 00:46 For those of you who are bilingual dose Brandi: 00:48 Oh design dose Michelle: 00:50 Design dose Brandi: 00:51 A dose of design Michelle: 00:55 What? Let's change the name now! Design speaks. We'll stick with it. Brandi: 00:57 We will give you your daily dose of design. That sounds really sketchy. Oh Well. Michelle: 01:01 No, it doesn't sound sketchy. Brandi: 01:03 Like I'm spoonfeeding you some nasty medicine. Michelle: 01:05 It's like Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Hey, welcome. Thanks for joining us. We're excited that you are here and with us and hanging out with us. Brandi: 01:14 So if you don't know anything about who we are and why we feel like we have a right to sit in these chairs and talk to you about design, um Michelle: 01:22 I don't Brandi: 01:23 Well, one of us feels like I have a right. The other one Michelle: 01:26 I'm learning Brandi: 01:26 Makes me feel like I have a right Michelle: 01:28 Yeah, you do. Brandi: 01:30 Um, I encourage you to go back and listen to episode one because we kind of talk at length about why we're here and what our goals are and what we have in store for you. Michelle: 01:38 We have some fun things to talk about today. Brandi: 01:40 Yeah. So today we're going to talk about how graphic design is actually influenced by other areas of design. Michelle: 01:47 Oooo, what does that mean? But what does it mean? Brandi: 01:49 That sounds confusing? Yeah. So, um, I'm sure that all of you know that there are other, other kinds of designs. So there's not only graphic design, which is probably the most elusive of design to define, which is why we're here. But there's also an automobile design. There's fashion design, there's interior design, stage design. Um, set and costume design and like there's, there's so many different areas of design that honestly like it's like a big web but they're all related. It's like seven degrees of Kevin Bacon, but it's designed. Michelle: 02:24 Is it seven or six, it might be seven. Is it six degrees?

                    This week we have lots of special guests to celebrate our 100th episode! Thanks for being on this amazing journey with us, we couldn't do it without you!!! Takeaways from this episode: The Enneagram is a great tool that can be used in all areas of life.  Podcasts take a lot of time, they can basically be a full-time job in addition to other things you may be doing. But if you have a passion for it, it is really worth it. Don’t be afraid to ask! Bucket list things happen when you ask. The client is not necessarily the audience. The audience is the person on the other end who you are actually designing for Episodes referenced: Episodes 68 and Episode 69: Interview with Chris Heuertz Episode 94: Interview with Emily Cretella Episode 77: Interview with Liz Fosslien Episode 21: Interview with Leatrice Eiseman  Episode 37: Are there really clients from hell? (To hear when Dominic hijacked the Design Speaks playlist) Episode 7: Never Trust Your First Idea (or Question Everything which is the name given to it by Hugh Weber) Episode 42: Why collecting things is important (AKA don’t trust a designer who doesn’t collect) Episode 63: How to Define Your Audience  Episode 48: Interview with Hugh Weber   References to other things: 99% Invisible Podcast Episode 281 La Sagrada Familia Empire Records, one of Brandi’s favorite movies     Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.                       TRANSCRIPTION Intro: 00:01 Happy 100th episode Design Speaks. Kenny: 00:05 Happy 100th episode Design Speaks. Emily: 00:07 Hi, I'm Emily Cretella and want to say happy birthday, Design Speaks Intro: 00:11 Welcome to Design Speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by a graphic design geek and a regular human being. AKA a non-designer. We're here to chat about music, pop culture, cool places, and I basically, whatever we feel is relevant. Brandi: 00:31 Hey guys, I'm Brandi Sea Michelle: 00:33 And I'm Michelle Joelle: 00:34 And I'm Joelle Brandi: 00:35 And you're listening to episode. Together: 00:36 100!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brandi: 00:41 Of Design Speaks! We're so excited. I really knew we would make it here but it seemed so far away. Michelle: 00:47 Um, so on this episode we're going to be talking to a few of our favorite people and if you're not on this episode, it doesn't mean you're not one of our favorite people. Brandi: 00:54 It just means we were poor planners and felt like it wouldn't be fair to you to call you super last minute. Michelle: 01:00 It's actually really true. But right now we have the wonderful one and only Joelle in studio. Hi, how are you? Joelle: 01:09 I'm good. Michelle: 01:10 Good. I'm glad to hear that. Brandi: 01:11 So Joelle was a fan. First, she was just Michelle: 01:14 She's like friends. Brandi: 01:15 No, first she was a friend, then she was a fan, then she was family.

                  This week Michelle wants to know about "Why?". Why is it so important, when, where, and WHY do you ask why when you are designing. We also chat about Fred Armisen, Donald Miller, and Shakespeare, buckle up, lol. Music This Week: Michelle’s song: "Graduate" by Third Eye Blind Brandi’s song: "Lisztomania" by Phoenix   Michelle’s Week: Michelle started her week by getting to see Fred Armisen live on stage. For those of us who do not know who that is he is a creator of many things. He was a member of SNL for a few seasons and a cast member of Portlandia. So that really blessed her week. Then she got to go to a baseball game with family which was fun even though she is not a huge sports fan. And finally, Michelle's daughter graduated from PreK! So exciting but Michelle had a bit of an emotional day. Brandi’s Week: Brandi is still working on her website. Very necessary work since it keeps breaking. Right now she's really working on what the goal of her website will be. To help figure that out she has been going through a lot of Donald Miller's videos. Also, Brandi wants to start to bring something new to her week, where she brings some new things that are happening in the design world. This week Brandi has heard from Folger Shakespeare Library Podcast that they are bringing VR Shakespeare performances. You can check out that podcast if you want to learn more about it. And Brandi also brought up the Design Observer podcast where they talked about Facebook taking away the blue bar making the APP look so much cleaner. Go and listen to that podcast as well to hear a really cool theory about why Facebook could be making all these changes.  Takeaways about why: Questioning your decisions checks your motives. Asking why allows you to have a backbone to understanding what you're doing. Once you understand it you can then more easily explain it to others. Asking why is going to be in every part of the process when you are design problem-solving. Asking why is beneficial to you. When you are answering why the answer needs to have a non-feelings answer. It needs to have a logical answer. Ask why based on your problem.  Ask why until you can’t ask yourself why anymore.  The deeper you can go with asking why gives more depth to your design. Continue down the rabbit hole of why. Asking why doesn’t leave the equation, regardless of how experienced you are.   Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.                       TRANSCRIPTION Michelle: 00:01 No. Brandi: 00:02 Oh, you were thinking gills. Oh, well it sounds fishy. She's trying to do a pun and I don't understand. I'm just gonna move on... Michelle: 00:07 Well, there it is... Intro: 00:11 Welcome to Design Speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by a graphic design geek and a regular human being. We here to chat about music, pop culture, cool places,

                    This week we chat about the difference between creating work that is good, or just good enough, and the three kinds of designers: lazy, complacent, and proactive and figuring out what kind you are. Show Notes Coming Soon! Music: Brandi’s song: "Something Good Can Work" by Two Door Cinema Club This week we chat about the difference between creating work that is good, or just good enough, and the three kinds of designers: lazy, complacent, and proactive and figuring out what kind you are.  Brandi’s week: First off there was Easter. And Brandi has also done her last project before she takes over as president for AIGA, which is Hire-Ed. This is a chance to help students and young professionals get their portfolios reviewed by professionals. She's also still working on the 100-days project and she's been doing a lot of digital painting. Which Michelle and I (Joelle) really like despite Brandi thinking it's lame. And that leads us into Avengers End Game so be prepared for spoilers in this episode.  Michelle’s week: Easter is over so lots of recovery from that, Michelle also when to see Avengers End Game, and she also got the opportunity to go to a museum we have here in Santa Fe NM called Meow Wolf. It's a very abstract kind of creepy undertone art museum. Basically, it's how Michelle wants to decorate her house but sadly it's not acceptable. Takeaways from this episode: You can do so much more if you just put a little bit more time into what you are doing There will be projects that you can’t put as much creative juice into, but that doesn’t mean those projects can be “crud-y” Don’t just say something is good enough when it’s just not good. Good enough should mean, does it work and does it work well? Remember that your attitude plays into a lot of this idea Not all designers are lazy, some may just be complacent Your job as a designer is to solve problems so if you don’t care about solving problems you don’t care about your job There are 3 types of designer. Lazy, complacent, or proactive. Figure out which one you are so you can be better It’s okay to have more to learn   If you want to read Brandi’s blog post about today’s topic it is blog post# 44, "Stop Making Excuses". This quarters book is The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair and you are welcome to read along with us.  Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would love it! You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going. Thank you to Vesperteen for allowing us to use his song Shatter in the Night as our intro and outro music for Design Speaks     This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.                       TRANSCRIPTION Michelle: 00:01 And I was like, why didn't they just give us one stairway? And he was like, right. I was like, I want a different experience on going downstairs every single time I'm here. But I was like, Brandi would probably like the fact. Brandi Sea: 00:13 I was like, that's amazing! I want to come down all the different ways. Michelle: 00:16 And I was like, I don't have time for this. And so I was like, that's probably something that Brandi would really enjoy is that fact th...

                  This week we are talking to Sam Maclay and Zak Rutledge of 3 Advertising in Albuquerque about the brand strategy behind the incredible work they did for pro soccer team, the New Mexico United. Stay tuned for some insight and a peek behind the scenes of a state-wide campaign!   INTERVIEW: Sam Maclay & Zak Rutledge of 3 Advertising - Episode 097 “If you notice on the left side of the shield, it's open. The ownership group, and Peter Trevisani, wanted a very inclusive feel to the team and the logo, and the whole concept of the team. It's really much more than just bringing a soccer team to the state. Going through our process with him that's what we really learned. It's like this is about bringing a whole state together and creating a source of pride and community and something we can all be behind.” -Sam Maclay “Speaker 5: (21:28) Yeah. I was wanting to create something real graphic and minimalist for this and yeah. And there's this kind of cropped and Zia that I hadn't really seen much. Then the diagonals really, I could see that it had legs in the campaign and also it kind of, those diagonals are used in other like pro soccer team in European style logos, which I thought was kind of good tie-in to the sport. ” -Zak Rutledge 3 Advertising New Mexico United     [clear-line]   This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.       TRANSCRIPTION    

                    This week Brandi and Michelle are taking a leaf out of Sean Wes’s book and recovering the topic of, how to hear your own voice when you are working for someone else. Brandi and Michelle encourage fellow creatives that it’s okay for you to have your own voice. It is your work and it’s okay to be in it. Michelle’s week: Michelle has had an interesting week thus far. She got to see Death Cab for Cutie live which made Brandi jealous. And Michelle is working hard at work on Easter stuff. Her daughter is on a soccer team so weekly they are at games. And she had a wild experience with her daughter the day of this recording because she and her husband were having coffee with some friends. Her daughter disappears for a minute, comes back, and when they asked where she went her response was, “I bought a burrito.” And sure enough, she had taken Kelly’s (Michelle’s husband) debit card, went to the register and bought a burrito! Brandi’s week: Brandi got a new pin this week from Two Girls Co. and it says "girls who design" and it is her new favorite pin. Brandi loves being a representative of girls being in a different sphere so that was really exciting to find. She's also working on the higher ed review portfolio for AIGA. This will be her last one as education director as she is transitioning into president very soon! And she was able to get in a good conversation with Hugh Weber this week! She has also been working with her daughter Jasmine because she is in a craft fair on Mother's Day. Jasmine has been making jewelry like crazy lately so this is an opportunity to sell and show off what she's been making. And something that has been inspiring Brandi this week is that she needs to just do things. She decided to do the 100 days challenge and she is doing something creative every day, and in order to do something creative every day, she's having to go back through inspiration folders on her phone to see what has inspired her in the past but hasn't used or posted yet.    Things to remember: Being creative is a vulnerable thing to do. Your voice matter. You are in your designs even if they are for someone else. You can’t take you out of your work. A style is different from a voice. A voice is what you have to say and a style is how you say it. You are hired for you. Your style and your voice are what make you different from all other designers Find your voice by making things. It will take time to find it, but by making things you find your voice; you find what makes you special In finding your voice, the things that you find yourself attracted to are probably part of your voice. And look for consistencies in what you do in your personal work and in the work you do for clients   Songs: Michelle’s song: What Sarah Said by Death Cab for Cutie Brandi’s song: If You Want Love by NF       This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.                       TRANSCRIPTION Brandi Sea: 00:00 45 minutes Michelle: 00:00 What should we call this episode? Episode 96 this is what we should call this episode Brandi Sea: 00:04 Listen to it. Speaker 2: 00:06 Welcome to Design Speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by a graphic design geek and a regular human being. AKA a non-designer. We're here to chat about music,

                  This week we had the opportunity to interview Emily Cretella on The Importance of Owning Your Mother Hustle. This was an amazing conversation with Emily about how she started her business Cursive Content and her side project Mother Hustle, and the importance of being a creative and a mom. We hope you enjoy this episode! INTERVIEW: Emily Cretella on The Importance of Owning Your Mother Hustle - Episode 094 Takeaways: Having flexible work that you have to do around everyday life things is not just a mom thing, it is an everyone thing.  Sometimes knowing all of the things you’re supposed to be doing and all of the strategies and tactics can put a damper on anything good that happens because you can feel like you’re not doing it justice. But what's so wrong with it being slow growing and the way it is now? And if you love it and you're enjoying doing it and you know, don't look at that stuff, you're doing a great job now. Investing in good design is always worth it. We shouldn’t be afraid to be authentic with those who follow us. No one really has it all figured out.  It's good to challenger yourself, sometimes even fun. Remember you can always modify where you want, ex. If you want to do a 100-day challenge you can still do it even if it's not 100 days in a row.  Being a mom does not have to take you away from your design work, it will look different and you will need to change your life around, but it most definitely does not have to take you away from it. Stuff we ask everyone: Something you are reading, watching, or listening to that you are loving? Shrill on Hulu and anxiously waiting for Game of Thrones to come back. And she just got back on Goodreads. Describe yourself in 3 words A feminist, curious, and perfectionist What do you do in the morning? All of the things and coffee When are you most productive? In the morning What do you geek out about? Reading, specifically historical fiction and mystery and right now a lot of books about writing What would your mom or dad say you do for a living? They would probably start off by saying I’m a writer, but if someone asked my mom she would say everything I just told you. What drives you crazy? When people post things that make starting and running a business look easy and all they show is the pretty surface level of running a business. And they make money off of it and capitalizes on the fear in people that everyone else has it all together. Basically smarminess.  How do you want to be remembered? As someone to acted; someone who stood for something was vocal about their convictions. And as someone who was a good mom.        “Investing in good design is obviously worth it.” -Emily Cretella  “Investing in good design helps bring your ideas to life as a strategist and writer.” -Emily Cretella Emily Cretella of Mother Hustle and Cursive Content  Emily references our Episode with Scott Belsky Reverie Lane did the design for Mother Hustle         This Quarter's Book: We are reading and reviewing books on the podcast every quarter! If you would like to read along, THIS QUARTER, we've been reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Want to support us? Go to Patreon and help support our podcast!   Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any burning questions you want Brandi to answer on an episode at brandi@brandisea.com.   THANK YOU to the ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.       TRANSCRIPTION Brandi Sea: 00:01 Today we got to talk to the founder, um, author, writer, marketer Michelle: 00:08 Everything-er Brandi Sea: 00:09 Everything-er from mother hustle, her name is Emily Critella. And um,

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