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Today, I'm making friends with Chris Do, an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.** What I Discuss with Chris:– NorCal VS SoCal– Growing up as a first generation immigrant– The problem with the education system– The struggles of being a true designer within the ad agency system** (Psst... Before I tell you more about the guest, do you like this show? Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — even one sentence helps!
Brooklyn-based Douglas Davis enjoys being one of the variety of voices needed in front of and behind the concept. As principal of The Davis Group, Douglas offers strategic solutions to client branding, design, and communications problems. As author of Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, Douglas regularly contributes to the design discourse in The European Business Review, RGD Design Thinkers, and the OneClub Educators Summit. Douglas is an Emmy Award-winning strategist who serves on the advisory boards of the Poster House Museum CMYK council, The Type Director's Club, The University of Oregon's Masters in Advertising and Brand Responsibility, and City College's Masters in Branding and Integrated Communications.
Chris Do is the owner and CEO of The Futur, an online educational platform that plans to teach a BILLION students. On this podcast we talk about how Chris got started, why he think the education system is broken and how he intends on fixing it, how to charge clients and lots more. Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. He currently serves as the chairman of the board for the SPJA, and as an advisor to Saleshood. He has also served as: advisory board member for AIGA/LA, EmmysMotion & Title Design Peer Group, Otis Board of Governors, Santa Monica College and Woodbury University. He has taught Sequential design for over 15 years at ArtCenter College of Design as well as Otis College of Art and Design. Additionally, he has lectured all over the world including: AIGA National Design Conference, Birmingham Design Festival, Awwwards New York/San Francisco/Amsterdam, AIGA Miami, The Design Conference Brisbane, Creative South, Digital Design Days Milan/Geneva, Lu Xun Academy Fine Art Dalian, Motion Conference Santa Fe, VMA Design Conference, MIT Boston, Bend Design Conference, Graphika Manila, Create Philippines, Rise Up Summit Cairo, RGD Design Thinkers Toronto, California Institute of the Arts, LA Art Institute, Otis College of Design, UCLA, MGLA, Cal State Los Angeles/ Northridge, Post Production World, Adobe Video World and San Diego University. His firm’s work has been recognized by national and international organizations such as: the Emmy’s, Clio, Effie Gold, Huffington Post, Lynda.com, Webbie, Communication Arts, London International Awards, One Show, British D&AD, AICP 20, Pictoplasma, How, 72 dpi, L.A. Weekly, Boards, Res 10, Type Director’s Club (20, 22, 23, 26), IDN, Addy Awards, BDA, Create, Stash (2, 12, 22, 24, 35, 43, 65), Creatie Augustus 2010, Motion Design, Asia Image, Brief, 365 AIGA Year In Design 26, Art Director’s Club, Motionographer, New York Festivals, B Brand, PPaper, I.D., and Print. Mr. Do has given talks and conducted workshops on: Sales, Negotiations, Value Based Pricing, Mindset, Branding, Graphic & Motion Design, Social Media Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business Management, and Client Relations.
Joe Stitzlein is a Co-Founder, Executive Creative Director and Type Designer at Stitzlein Studio. He worked with Steve Jobs to define Apple’s photography and packaging standards, and with Michelle Obama to launch her Let’s Move program for healthy schools. I designed iconic identities for Netflix, Nike Flyknit, dwell magazine and Mac OS X and built a global design studio at Google. I've designed typefaces in every major writing system globally and created campaigns that made Nike Free the world’s best selling shoe. Before starting Stitzlein Studio, Joe worked as Executive Creative Director for the Google Brand Studio and Senior Global Creative Director at Nike; his work has been featured in Adweek, the AIGA annual, the Annual of the Type Director’s Club, Atlantic Cities, the Annual of the AIA, D&AD, fastcodesign.com and at Cannes, amongst others. In this episode, Joe had shared great insights on typography and spoke on what is the difference between a typeface and a font and how to choose a perfect typeface and font pair from millions of available choices. In the latter part, we discussed how we craft typography for accessibility and inclusiveness and ended the show by Joe recommending some tips to young designers on how to start their journey into typeface design and build attractive portfolios. Takeaways - What is typography and its importance, How to do correct font pairing, How to craft typography for accessibility and inclusiveness. Stitzlein Studio - https://stitzstudio.com NewsLetter/Books Recommended by Joe Stitzlein Typewolf How to - Michael Bierut The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. We hope you enjoy the Nodes of Design Podcast on your favourite podcast platforms- Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts and many more. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.
Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.He currently serves as the chairman of the board for the SPJA, and as an advisor to Saleshood. He has also served as: advisory board member for AIGA/LA, Emmys Motion & Title Design Peer Group, Otis Board of Governors, Santa Monica College and Woodbury University.He has taught Sequential design for over 15 years at ArtCenter College of Design as well as Otis College of Art and Design. Additionally, he has lectured all over the world including: AIGA National Design Conference, Birmingham Design Festival, Awwwards New York/San Francisco/Amsterdam, AIGA Miami, The Design Conference Brisbane, Creative South, Digital Design Days Milan/Geneva, Lu Xun Academy Fine Art Dalian, Motion Conference Santa Fe, VMA Design Conference, MIT Boston, Bend Design Conference, Graphika Manila, Create Philippines, Rise Up Summit Cairo, RGD Design Thinkers Toronto, California Institute of the Arts, LA Art Institute, Otis College of Design, UCLA, MGLA, Cal State Los Angeles/ Northridge, Post Production World, Adobe Video World and San Diego University.His firm’s work has been recognized by national and international organizations such as: the Emmy’s, Clio, Effie Gold, Huffington Post, Lynda.com, Webbie, Communication Arts, London International Awards, One Show, British D&AD, AICP 20, Pictoplasma, How, 72 dpi, L.A. Weekly, Boards, Res 10, Type Director’s Club (20, 22, 23, 26), IDN, Addy Awards, BDA, Create, Stash (2, 12, 22, 24, 35, 43, 65), Creatie Augustus 2010, Motion Design, Asia Image, Brief, 365 AIGA Year In Design 26, Art Director’s Club, Motionographer, New York Festivals, B Brand, PPaper, I.D., and Print.Mr. Do has given talks and conducted workshops on: Sales, Negotiations, Value Based Pricing, Mindset, Branding, Graphic & Motion Design, Social Media Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business Management, and Client Relations.
In this episode, we speak with video artist Kameron Neal who uses his body and personal narratives to explore intimacy and to challenge socio-political ideologies. -About Kameron Neal-Kameron Neal is a queer Black video artist, designer, and performance-maker based in NYC. Forbes described Kameron’s solo exhibition at Detroit Art Week 2019 as “an absurd escape that simultaneously provokes and entertains.” Kameron is currently in residence at CultureHub, The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, and the Bemis Center. As a Resident Artist at Ars Nova, he co-created MukhAgni, an irreverent multimedia performance memoir, with Shayok Misha Chowdhury; the piece was curated in Under the Radar 2020. His stop-motion self-portrait Liquid Love was awarded Best of Show at Digital Graffiti Festival 2017 where he returned in 2018 as an artist in residence. Kameron’s video art has been featured in music videos for Billy Porter and Rufus Wainwright. His work has also been seen in National Geographic, HYPEBEAST, Studio Magazine, and at BAM, New York Theatre Workshop, SohoRep, La Mama, Bushwick Starr, New Orleans Film Festival, Blue Balls Festival, the Type Director’s Club, Vox Populi, and Williams College Museum of Art.Learn more at kameronneal.comFollow Kameron @kamer_n
Joshua Paul is the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief at Lollipop Grand Prix Media. He is a portrait, travel, and automobile and racing photographer who has earned numerous awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, Type Director’s Club, and Photo District News. Aside from traveling to over 95 countries, usually off the beaten path Joshua has photographed over 75 Formula 1 races and taken portraits of every driver. He’s the only Permanently Accredited American Photographer for Formula 1. One of his cameras of choice is a 1913 Graflex Auto RB that gives the viewer a very unique perspective of modern races. Joshua earned his BA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Washington and his BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design.
…on the relationship between design and writing. Brian LaRossa is the art director of three imprints for Scholastic’s trade division. He also writes essays for Design Observer where he writes thought-provoking pieces on the practice of graphic design and being a designer. He’s on the board of the Type Director’s Club, teaches at CUNY City Tech and started his own type foundry, Type Brut. He’s won awards from the Type Director's Club, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Print Magazine, and his experimental poetry is included in the permanent collection of the MoMA Library. Brian joins the show for a conversation about learning a lesson from every position you hold, delving into the past on the road to new discoveries and digging into Ulysses.
Joe Stitzlein is Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director of Stitzlein Studio, a design and strategy practice that builds digital brand systems for the next generation of leading companies. Prior to opening his own studio Joe was Executive Creative Director for Google Brand Studio and Senior Global Creative Director for Nike Running. He’s also held design positions for Landor, SY Partners, Chronicle Books, and Pentagram. Along with leading the Nike Free shoe creative, he’s designed iconic brand identities for Netflix, dwell magazine, Lilly, and the Mac OS X. He’s worked alongside Steve Jobs to define photography and packaging standards for Apple, and Michelle Obama to launch her Let’s Move program. His work has been featured in Adweek, the AIGA annual, the Annual of the Type Director’s Club, Atlantic Cities, the Annual of the AIA, fastcodesign.com and at the Cannes, amongst others. I first met Joe when hiring him as an intern at Landor in San Francisco. He has obviously risen to a full fledged Jedi Master.
Having built a career as a design every man, Steven Bonner nurtures a flexible approach that works across all creative disciplines. He takes a blank canvas approach to each brief that has helped him develop a varied skillset over years, leading to a portfolio with a unique mix of design, illustration, and lettering. This versatility has allowed him to work across advertising, editorial, publishing, and packaging – earning a reputation for high-quality work and reliability along the way. Steven is a graphic designer, illustrator, and typographer based in Glasgow whose work has been recognized by a number of bodies including the D&AD, Type Director’s Club, the One Show, the Art Director’s Club, Communication Arts, and the American Advertising Awards amongst others. He has also had the honor of being listed as one of AdWeek's top 100 creatives worldwide, as well as The Drum's 'Designerati' list of the top 100 UK creatives. In this podcast, we discuss his typographic approach to retail design, spirits packaging and food brand identity. We also talk about typography with purpose. View the show notes at typographydojo.com/011
This episode is all about our relationship with the AIGA and more general feelings about design community and discourse. Annie, Matt, and Andy are joined by new contributor Nicole Killian to discuss our relationship with the AIGA and centralized representation of our industry. Why do so many of us feel distanced from our de facto professional organization? Links AIGA 2016 Design Census The AIGA AIGA Member Benefits MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) Walker Insights Design Lecture Series AIGA Annual Punk Rock SCAD Union (Matt’s Rogue Design Club) Make Trump’s branding great again: in-house experts talk campaign design AIGA Diversity and Inclusion Initiative How do you do, fellow kids? Design Observer Art Director’s Club Type Director’s Club RGD (The Association of Registered Graphic Designers) Justified: AIGA Annual Design Competition AIGA: Unjustified by Paula Scher 50 Books | 50 Covers competition David Rudnick’s Tweet and Explanation Design Thinking Very Busy Andy 4 Corners Project is One Designer’s Solution to Help Syrian Refugees Resist Logo SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful launch and landing of a used rocket
Notes on Doing's NODcast Episode 006 where Jenna interviews Marco Vinicio Morales, Name on the street: Kultnation, Name to friends: Vinny. Vinny is a famous designer and director in the moving image industry. Throughout his career he has been chosen to direct the prestigious titles for the OFFF Festivals in Barcelona and Mexico City, he’s worked at all of the top motion design houses in NY and LA, and he’s exhibited for museums and institutions such as Pictoplasma, IdN, and the Type Director’s Club. Vinny is based in Mexico City and outside of work he teaches budding animators and designers at Universidad Iberoamericana and Centro. Here’s what Vinny had to say about what he did after he accomplished everything he ever wanted by the age of 33, how work is like talking, and why it’s essential to dive headfirst into “why.” Notes on Doing is a series of conversations with people who love what they do. www.notesondoing.com
A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley (Goff Books) Join us for a genre-defying night that fuses art and literature, prose and design into a multi-media presentation unlike any other. A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley, written by Warren Lehrer, is an illuminated novel containing 101 books within it, all written by Lehrer's protagonist who finds himself in prison looking back on his life and career. Nearly a year after the controversial author is thrown into a federal prison for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential source, he decides to break his silence. But it's not as simple as giving up a name to the grand jury. Over the course of one long night, in the darkness of his prison cell, he whispers his life story into a microcassette recorder, tracing his journey from the public housing project of his youth, to a career as a journalist, then experimental novelist, college professor, accidental bestselling author, pop-culture pundit, and unindicted prisoner. In A Life In Books, Mobley's autobiography/apologia is paired with a review of all 101 of his books. Each book is represented by its first-edition cover design and catalogue copy, and more than a third of his books are excerpted. The resulting retrospective contrasts the published writings (which read like short stories) with the author's confessional memoir, forming a most unusual portrait of a well-intentioned, obsessively inventive (but ethically challenged) visionary. Written and designed by award-winning author/artist Warren Lehrer, A Life in Books is an extraordinarily original, funny, heartwarming and heart-wrenching exploration of one man's use of books as a means of understanding himself, the people around him, and a half-century of American/global events. Rich with stories that spring from other stories, this genre-defying novel orchestrates a multicultural symphony of characters from Bleu's life and books: lovers, mothers, children, friends, enemies, teachers, students, runaways, rebels, thinkers, dreamers, believers, skeptics, the displaced and dispossessed. It celebrates the mysteries and contradictions of the creative process, and grapples with the future of the book as a medium, and the lines that separate truth, myth, and fiction. This four-color, full-length novel--containing over 101 hilarious and scrumptious book cover designs (and book-like objects)--fuses art and literature, and distinguishes itself as one of those books you'll want to hold in your hands, feast your eyes on, read and re-read, share with friends, and treasure for years to come. Warren Lehrer is a writer and designer, acclaimed for capturing the shape of thought and reuniting the traditions of storytelling with the printed page. He has received many awards for his books and multimedia projects, including the Brendan Gill Prize, the Innovative Use of Archives Award, three AIGA Book Awards, two Type Director's Club awards, The International Book Design Award, a Media That Matters Award, and grants and fellowships from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Rockefeller, Ford, and Greenwall Foundations. His work is in many collections including MoMA, LA County Art Museum, The Getty Museum, Georges Pompidou Centre, and Tate Gallery. He is a professor at Purchase College, SUNY, and a founding faculty member of the Designer As Author grad program at SVA. Together with Judith Sloan, Lehrer co-authored Crossing the BLVD and co-founded EarSay, a non-profit arts organization in Queens, NY. A Life In Books is Lehrer's 10th book; his first novel.