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Colin Rigsby is a tattoo artist and musician that you may know better as 'Vesperteen'! After taking live photos of Vesperteen years ago, then almost taking portraits of him but couldn't align schedules, and then finally meeting in person at a recent concert surrounded by mutuals, I finally got to sit down and get to know the man behind Vesperteeen. We dive into what got him into pursuing music as a career, the evolution and change from being in a band to going out as a solo artist, what "making it" looks like to him, and his experience of signing with a label and experiences within the industry in general. We also branch off into chats about burnout, playing the social media game as a musician in the modern day, feeling pushed to make art rather than it coming natural, dealing with creative blocks, and we even take a dive into some sci-fi talk about what the future of humans could look like, what VR is like, where it all evolves from here and a lot more!  FOLLOW and find all that Colin does HERE LISTEN to Vesperteen HERE ------------------ THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY: Ingram Audio Co. - @ingramaudioco Spend less time mixing and more time creating! Ingram Audio's goal is to create unique, user-friendly plugins for musicians and creatives of any skill level. Visit ingramaudio.co for more info and purchase options!  Maker's Social   - @makers.social Maker's Social is a DIY Project Bar located right in Franklinton! To book a reservation, go to makerscolumbus.com enter “WYDH” in the notes of your checkout for $10 off! PromoWest Productions For all upcoming show & event info visit their site above & to purchase tickets directly visit AXS.com OPE! Cold Brew - @opecoldbrew  It's DANG GOOD cold brew. Subscribe for weekly or bi-weekly Friday deliveries or grab a 4 pack at opecoldbrew.com 

Beyoncé writing for Bon Jovi, Meatloaf explosions, lyrics that don't make sense & ridiculously long music videos. This time with we're with Collin Rigsby (aka Vesperteen) choosing our Top 5 Ballads & debating if the amazing genre still exists. Vesperteen is Collin Rigsby. Making music since 2015 he has released multiple EP's and singles - most recently Give Me a Break. Collin is also the drummer for band House of Heroes a band since 2001 they have 6 albums. You can also get tattooed by Vesperteen! Check out his Instagram to find out more: www.Instagram.com/vesperteen Find out about upcoming tour dates/shows/new music by heading to the website: www.vesperteenmusic.com Make sure to also follow us on Instagram for all our latest info & episodes. www.instagram.com/mytoppod or visit our website: www.mytoppod.com This episode was recorded over Zoom! My Top 5 is brought to you by Sound Talent Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's so many creatives leaving traditional office jobs or doing more independent design and I thought it would be great to share some things we wish we knew when we started our own design businesses. Lauren Gonzalez from 4theCreatives is joining me we can't wait to share what we have learned and hopefully save you some unexpected surprises when going out on your own!You can find Lauren's YouTube Channel here!Something I've been unusually inspired by is…Children's, Youth, and Young Adult Book cover illustrations from the books "Land of Stories" by Chris Colfer"The Magical Misfits" by Neil Patrick Harris"Dragonwatch" by Brandon Mull "Keeper of the Lost Cities" by Shannon Messenger  Musical Inspiration this week is:"His Favorite Christmas Story" by Capital Lights---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW on iTunes!or send us a note on instagram @designspeakspodcast if you love this show!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can find show notes and past episodes at DesignSpeaksPodcast.com or even more at BrandiSea.com Design Speaks  is produced by Kenneth Kniffin and Dakota Cook. Shoutout to Colin from Vesperteen for our theme music. Design Speaks Podcast is a project of BrandiSea Design Co. and is recorded in the shadow of the watermelon pink Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. As always, I'm BrandiSea, reminding you that you CAN take control of your creativity. Thanks for listening!Support the show (https://buymeacoffee.com/BrandiSea)

Ever feel like you're spinning your wheels with shows? Stressed at the idea of planning a tour? Today's episode is for you. We talk with booking agent and owner of Revel Talent Alliance, Brandon Hughes, who's worked with artists like Michigander, Vesperteen, and Motherfolk. What You'll Learn What a booking agent isWhat's the difference between a booking agent and a managerHow you can best plan your toursHow to view touring as a key component of your businessHow to approach touring sustainably (and not burn yourself out) -- About Music Business Mindset Music Business Mindset is the official podcast of Evergreen Records – a production company dedicated to helping independent artists grow. We take a bit of a different approach to helping you find success, focusing less on the gear and trends, and more on YOU and your band as a business. The podcast brings you interviews from awesome artists and industry leaders – all with the goal of helping you find true and lasting success, financial stability, and personal wellbeing on your journey in the music industry. -- Resources: Evergreen Records | Production and Mixing Guide: The Best Way to Promote Your Music Guide: How to Build A Pro Web Presence to Grow Your Band David's Hierarchy of Leads – The 4 Levels of Fandom Music Marketing Psychology Case Study SongwriterSounds: Ultra-Usable Synth Presets for Logic Pro X

This week's podcast is content from an original blog post I wrote. A little pick-me-up for this week until Michelle and I are back next week! Takeaways from this episode: Read everything! This will diversify your inspiration and help you add more to your work. Use physical tools. Sketch on paper. It can give you more and better ideas than just using a computer all the time. Learn to say no to things. By saying yes to too many things you may need to say no to some of your quality. Diversify your creative inspiration. Continuously refresh your mind with new and interesting things and places. Keep your idea well filled! Have a personal passion project. Something that makes you happy. Something you do for you. Find beauty. Beauty requires a response. Beauty can give you a desire to create. Write things down. It will help you focus. You can also write down what is distracting you and that can help take it off your mind for a time. Surround yourself with honest and encouraging people. People who will give you good constructive criticism and encourage you in specific ways.   Do something new. New is exciting and excitement creates stimulation in our minds. Newness can be really motivating. Create an awesome workspace. This can help you get in the right mindset. It can help your productivity.  Know your own process. This creates stability when you work. When you don’t question yourself you aren’t questioning yourself. Don’t do spec work. Spec work being work you are expected to do for free. Don’t let yourself be taken advantage of. A happy designer is a valued designer.  http://www.brandisea.com/2913-2/ To read the full blog post  https://www.patreon.com/designspeaks If you would like to help support this fun show that we do! We can’t do it without you!     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     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: 00:06 Hey guys, I'm Brandi Sea. I am back from Europe. I've been home for two weeks now, but, um, the first week with basically me recovering from jet lag and it appears that this week I have contracted some sort of a airplane bug. I think my husband got it first and now I have it. So um Michelle and I didn't record this week, but I still wanted to get on here and talk to you a little bit. Um, so Michelle and I will be back next week with your regularly scheduled banter. Um, so this week I decided to bring you some content from a blog post. I wrote a while back called 12 habits of a happy designer. Brandi Sea: 00:47 So a lot of times as designers it's really hard work. Um, I try to really be encouraging, uh, of that hard work of creativity here on this podcast. So I thought this might be a good pick me up for, um, for a little filler week for us. So, um, how can we be more content designers? Um, there's at least a hundred things I can think of that are things that we can do to be happier and more content with what we do. But I decided to kind of break down the list into 12 habits. Brandi Sea: 01:24 Um, so the first one that I, I talk about a lot is read, read stuff, read everything you can read magazines, read obviously books, read newspapers, read blogs. Um, when I say read,

    ENCORE: "Discomfort. Growth. Meaning & Stuff." [originally aired, Episode 013] - Episode 118 This week is a special encore of our thirteenth episode, "Discomfort. Growth. Meaning & Stuff." 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     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.      

    ENCORE: "Designers, Collaboration, Selfishness, & Ego" [originally aired, Episode 009] - Episode 117 This week is a special encore of our third episode ever, "On Processing Someone Else's Vision". 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     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.      

    ENCORE: "Processing Someone Else's Vision" [originally aired, Episode 003] - Episode 116 This week is a special encore of our third episode ever, "On Processing Someone Else's Vision". 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     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.        

On today's episode, we're sharing three really amazing interviews from the AIGA National Leadership Retreat that Brandi attended last month in Atlanta! Ashleigh Axios, Forest Young, and Sarah Brooks talk the future of design and our role as designers. Michelle’s week: Michelle has been up to a lot or organization. Every Saturday for the last month or so she has been going to the Grower's Market that we have In the Albuquerque area. She uses the time to also get groceries and also have some fun with her family. And instead of watching tv at night, Michelle has been crawling into bed are rereading Harry Potter. And besides, that Michelle has been crazy busy at work like always. They are in the process of remodeling their office to she had to move to a different office space. She also impulsively bought a tattoo stick and poke kit! She has already given her husband a tattoo. Stay tuned because the design speaks team may all get matching tattoos. And lastly, Michelle has started doing Body Pump and she is loving it even though she can't walk up Brandi's stairs.  Brandi’s week: Brandi finally finished Stranger Things and she is happy with season 3. She has also signed a couple of contracts for some design work which is exciting, and she is working on preparing for her vow renewal which is in a couple of weeks. And besides that, she got to go to this AIGA conference where she recorded the interviews you will hear in this episode. This was Brandi's first year getting to attend as the president of the New Mexico chapter.   Takeaways from this episode: It’s important to think about how things change over time. As a designer, you not only need specialization but also understanding of the whole. You’re really not as creative as you could be if you just use a mouse. Design is like a conversation using a plethora of visual tools. A community should have consistency. A designer can help shape the future.  There is a responsibility that comes along with design.  Designers have to do research to do good work. Michelle’s song: To the Ground by Death Cab for Cutie The episode with Karen Himba: http://www.brandisea.com/podcasts/ep107/ https://www.patreon.com/designspeaks If you would like to help support this fun show that we do! We can’t do it without you!           Please rate and review our podcast on iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would be eternally grateful! We can't do this without YOU. 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 Want to support us? Go to Patreonand 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. Intro: 00:00:00 Welcome to Design Speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by 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: 00:00:18 Hey, I'm Brandi Sea, design strategist. Michelle: 00:00:21 And I'm Michelle the regular human being in the room. Brandi Sea: 00:00:25 Implying I'm not regular and it's okay. Michelle: 00:00:28 That's okay. You can be weird. You've lived in that for your whole life. Brandi Sea: 00:00:32 And you're listening to episode 114 of Design Speaks. Michelle: 00:00:36 On today's episode. We have a very special little something for you actually. Kind of big something. Brandi Sea: 00:00:42 Yeah. Michelle: 00:00:42 Um,

On today's episode, we're going to be talking about embracing the journey rather than just waiting for outcome or chasing down every new idea that crosses your path.Brandi’s week:Brandi has been going crazy getting prepared for Design Summit which has already happened. Brandi did a color workshop which was originally going to be an hour talk but became a 2-hour talk and workshop. (which went great by the way!) Brandi also created most of the collateral for the event which was very exciting. Besides all this, Brandi also wants to write a book (or multiple books) so she signed up for the Margaret Atwood's creative writing masterclass. And Brandi is also very close to having her Alice book cover done so be on the lookout for that.Michelle’s week:Michelle has had a good week, mainly she has been bingeing Orange Is the New Black. And her dog has been shedding like crazy so there has also been lots and lots of vacuuming happening as well.Takeaways from this episode:If you are only focused on the idea you can lose sight of the in-between stuff and what you can learn there.Embrace the middle. It is important to finish and follow through with ideas, but they shouldn’t be the primary focus.It’s not all about the next idea.The learning happens while you are figuring things out.Being endlessly curious will help you are your work evolve and grow for the better.Brandi’s song: My Way by Mike Mains, Yacht MoneyMichelle’s song: Just a Ride by Jemhttps://www.patreon.com/designspeaksIf you would like to help support this fun show that we do! We can’t do it without you!   Please rate and review our podcast on iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeaks we would be eternally grateful! We can't do this without YOU. 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 Want to support us?Go to Patreonand 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.  TRANSCRIPTIONBrandi Sea: 00:00 Collateral is like all the auxiliary materials for the event. For the conference.Michelle: 00:05 That's a weird word. Collateral.Brandi Sea: 00:07 Yeah.Michelle: 00:08 It just sounds weird. Collateral. It sounds like something that's like a bone in your neck or something. Oh, I damaged my collateral. In my car accident.Intro: 00:19 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, or basically, whatever we feel is relevant.Brandi Sea: 00:36 Hey, I'm Brandi Sea.Michelle: 00:37 And I'm Michelle.Brandi Sea: 00:37 And you're listening to episode 113 of Design Speaks.Michelle: 00:41 On today's episode we're going to be talking about embracing the journey of your project rather than just waiting for the last bit, which is the outcome.Brandi Sea: 00:52 Sounds good to me.Michelle: 00:53 Let's do it.Brandi Sea: 00:54 Also I keep, I keep like having to slouch cause I'm wearing my new Blundstones and I felt like two inches on me, which is a great problem to have, but I'm like my microphones all the way down here.Michelle: 01:04 It's so low. Wait, how did this happen?Brandi Sea: 01:07 Why did I grow? This the best?Michelle: 01:08 Oh I want to grow. I need two more inches. I want to hit 5'5.Brandi Sea: 01:12 Yeah. Same.Michelle: 01:12 But I'm, I'm done.Brandi Sea: 01:14 I'm like five, three and like a little bit.Michelle: 01:16 Yeah, me too. 5'3 and three quarters.Brandi Sea: 01:17 Like I'm 5'4.Michelle: 01:19 Yeah. I mean.

This week we are sharing a couple of popular episodes since Brandi is out of town! Episode 41 is when to give up on an idea and 49 is the value of actually judging books by their covers. Takeaways from this episode: Your design must tie together three things: 1-the problem it is solving, 2-the audience it needs to reach, 3-and the concept based on the problem. If something isn’t working, ask yourself, why? Why is this not working?  Scrapping ideas/designs happens less when you keep yourself focused on your process and what you set out to do When you start to ask yourself why (design math) you are able to find specific parts of the design that are not and are working. Answering the 3 questions of design will help it not seem so overwhelming. “Does this match the concept? Does this appeal to the audience, and does it answer or solve the problem?” Sometimes you don’t even need to scrap the whole idea completely. You may just need to change some things so that it answers the three questions. It's okay to judge a book by it's cover! If you want to get better at critiquing others work you can look at a book cover and try and guess what you think the book is about, then turn it over and see if you're right. You can also try it for fun too Sometimes book covers are intentionally designed to deceive you. So if a cover doesn’t make sense, it could be done for a reason and you should try and figure out why.  But remember, good design on a book cover is key. (obviously, good design is key all the time) On a book cover though, most people won't buy a book that is not recommended to them if the design isn't good. You can also see trends in book covers. Trends in color or typeface.  The cover of the book is like the trailer of a movie. And it’s a skill to draw people in toward the book you want them to read. If you want to get into something specific in design, ex. Book covers, you need to study and make sure you include all the necessary elements in a book cover. There are so many interesting things you can do with a book cover because there are so many interpretations you can get from a book.        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   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 Welcome to Design Speaks. This lovely podcast is brought to you by graphic design geek and a regular human being. AKA a non-designer. We're here to chat them out, music, pop culture, cool places or basically whatever we feel is relevant. Michelle: 00:19 Hey, my name is Michelle and you're listening to episode 111 of Design Speaks on today's episode of Design Speaks. We are throwing it back to not one but two oldie but goodie episodes. Episode 41 happened because a listener decided to message in and ask when to know if we should scrap an idea or if we should ever scrap an idea at all. And episode 49 happened because of Brandi's love for books. Recently we talked about judging a book by its covers, so I thought, what the heck? Why not bring back the actual episode about whether or not we should judge an actual book by its actual cover? Remember, if you have any questions, we would love to talk about them and you can message us on Instagr...

This episode we do a quick run-down of the things we loved and found most interesting about this book "The Secret Lives of Color" by Kassia St. Clair. Michelle’s week: Michelle took a stay-cation this week which was really nice and much needed. Though she is still a mom and that's a full-time job on its own. It is the last week of summer before her daughter starts kindergarten, so this week was a chance for Michelle to spend time with her daughter before school starts. However, it still is very challenging. Michelle let her daughter watch TV while she took a nap, and sadly her daughter found the scissors and chose that to be the time of a haircut for herself.  Joelle’s week:  Joelle has been running and training to run a 10k in October, so that has been taking up a lot of time. Still in the beginning stages of the training, but she’s getting there. Besides that, it’s just been outside work with the little baby plants. Brandi’s week: Brandi took her kids to Santa Fe to visit her parents and she was able to play tourist in her home town. They took the train and made a fun day of it. She went to Sky Coffee who, Jason Munn, did their design work, and they had amazing coffee! Takeaways from this episode: If you want to hear more about this book, the podcast 99% Invisible, has an episode where Roman Mars interviews Kassia St. Clair. It is episode 340 -The Secret Lives of Color. The meanings that we get from colors and even the names of colors are there for a reason We advise having something to take notes, or just have a willingness to write in this book. “You kind of have to be in a good space to be able to sit down cause it's like you're reading science, you're reading geology, you're reading history and you're reading like psychology, like every two pages for every single color.” -Brandi Sea A fun mention is colormen, "Those who produced and trained in colors". Similar to Leatris Eisman who we have an interview with. Episode 021 of Design Speaks Fun fact, Baker-Miller pink was the color that they painted a lot of prisons and insane asylums because it is such a calming color. They stopped using it because it affected everyone including workers. Why does red increase a person's heart rate but light red calm them down?  The majority of the quotes in this book come from artists. You will quickly learn that you are not alone in your love of color. Blue is most likely the most popular favorite color because it is always there. It is the most trusted; the most constant of colors.  Joelle’s song: See Through by The Band Camino  Brandi’s song: Game of Survival by Ruelle   THIS QUARTER, we finished reading, The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. We had a ton of things to say about this super fun book!   Please rate and review our podcast in iTunes and if you want to support our show please go to Patreon.com/designspeakswe 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 Want to support us? Go to Patreonand 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: 00:00:01 I don't know how this happened. Two of my best friends in high school, we're both gingers. I'm like, Michelle: 00:00:06 It's 'cause they're fiery and they can deal with you. Joelle: 00:00:08 Yeah. Brandi Sea: 00:00:11 They're feisty! They can deal with me. Only gingers can deal with you, Brandi. I understand.

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,

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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,

In this episode, our friend Vesperteen stopped by before his tour with Great Good Fine Ok to talk about his start in music, his recent signing to the label KIDinaKORNER, and the story of how we wrote his song "Medicine" together.

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.

With only two EPs and a few singles released, Vesperteen has gained over 3 million Spotify streams and 50,000 followers among social media platforms — selling out multiple tours across North America and Europe. His dedicated and die-hard fans have fondly named themselves the “VesperTEAM,” and have made themselves a steady tentpole in supporting his music across the US and Europe. Featured Song Name: Operate Great Good Fine OK with Vesperteen at Lincoln Hall: https://www.facebook.com/events/409856606227431/

                  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...

After a long hiatus Deb is back on the podcast here in Season 5! We are indulging in all things Appleton and the Valley...talking Mile of Music artists jams we recently discovered. Deb and I also discovered a cooking show produced/featured right here in Wisconsin and airing on local TV. Its a real blast and we want you to know about it #cooklikeAchampion !

                    This week we have a blast talking about all sorts of fun, interesting, and useful gifts for that creative in your life (or for yourself)! Stay tuned for some value and a little bit of nonsense. Featured Music: Club Danger - "Living Legend" [clear-line] Inspirations, Thoughts, & What We've Been Up To Need some ideas on what to give to follow creatives or maybe to that person on your life who appreciates creative things? You have come to the right podcast. However, before we hear some great ideas, we hear all about Michelle’s week where she has been getting ready for Christmas. She didn’t bring a song this week, but she has a few suggestions of new music for the listeners. She suggests, new music by Copeland and Vesperteen’s new song "Operate". (Also, the band who Michelle couldn’t remember during the show was Broken Bells). They released a new song so give it a listen. Michelle also suggests another great podcast on Spotify by Guy Raz called The Rewind. Brandi’s week: Sad because her husband was sick and then she got sick, but she still managed to find a positive note to this week. Pantone just announced the color of the year for 2019: Living Coral, and it is gorgeous. Apparently Brandi is a trendsetter because she unintentionally bought her new planner in the color of the new year. Her song this week is Living Legend by Club Danger. It’s not how Brandi is feeling now, but it’s still a fun energetic song. Now we can jump into this week’s topic which may be helpful for some or hopefully all of you, gift ideas for fellow creatives in your life, or those people in your life who appreciate creative things. We hear from both Brandi and Michelle about what are some great gift ideas for creatives. The Christmas Gift Wish List: Shop Pantone: nice notebooks, pens, and pencils, FoodMood Cookbook Notebooks Mugs Ornaments Color Books Planners Ink+Volt Planner Drinkware for hot beverages as well as a Hydroflask Homesick Candles Fidget spinners or cubes, squishies or Thinking Putty Moment Lenses A nice pair of headphones (Michelle suggests Sony) Art from someone like Lindsay Letters aka The Art Bar An experience like going to a museum, tickets to a concert or a conference; even bowling Gradient Puzzles for the office Dana Tanamachi Illuminated Bible Temporary tattoos that you can design yourself from InkBox iTunes gift card Fujifilm Photo Printer that connects to your phone Typographic Ticket Book Classes from Skillshare or Creative Live, and Timeular Gadget  If you have any more ideas that we didn’t cover, please comment on our Instagram post to share with other listeners. Don’t forget to rate and review our show wherever you listen. THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK!!!! "As a self-taught graphic designer who is constantly wanting to learn more about design in general, I've really enjoyed this podcast. I've been introduced to several new topics and ideas that I've then been inspired to go out and learn about more on my own."  - verolilianaaa on iTunes     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 song (“Shatter in The Night”) as the intro and outtro for every episode of Design Speaks.       [clear-line][clear-line] Transcription: Brandi: Welcome to Design Speaks, you're listening to episode 75 of Design Speaks. Michelle: On this week’s episode we are going to be talking about Christmas presents for creatives. B: But before we get into that do you want to tell us about your week? M: Sure, so I’ve just been getting everything ready from Christmas. I just decorated the entire office!

"Corrington Wheeler" is an independent singer from Maryland and a voting member of the Recording Academy for the GrammysHe released an EP on October 28th, 2015 called "Traveling East" with producers Justin Kyle of Jamie's Elsewhere with Victory Records and Eric Ferraro of Asmara. On February 22nd, 2016, he released a cover single of "The Parting Glass". His newest album "Seeking Light" was released on March 15th, 2017 with additional guest features from Garret Rapp of The Color Morale with Fearless Records, Jeremy Gilmore of Sycamour with Hopeless Records, Tada Maico, Ryan Tyler of Viridian, Sebastian Elizondo of Darkness Divided with Victory Records, & Rory Rodriguez of Dayseeker with Invogue Records and Spinefarm Records!Songs "Sociological Structural Functionalism" and "Your Erroneous Evil" have been played on over 177 global networks cumulative including Video Hits!, PC Music pool, RNR TV, OK! TV, The Cool TV, VH1 India, Havoc TV, Bowling Music Network, Club Com Inc, In-Store Sports Network, ScreenPlay, Promo Only, VJ Pro, Channel M/Play Network, Mood Media, Almen Joi’s Music Video Show, Sidewalks Entertainment, The Insane Show, Xcorps Action Sport TV, KVJ Rocks, Rhythms on The Rockside, DaPow, Access Unlimited TV.CW has played performances on shows such as America's Got Talent, appeared on national radio stations, and toured with national acts such as Alien Ant Farm, Lacey Sturm of Flyleaf, Bobaflex, Seasons After, Parabelle, Jeff Pinkus of Butthole Surfers, Chris Taylor Brown of Trapt, Flaw, Vesperteen, and others!

                  Brandi & Michelle are back with Special guest Joelle who has a question about being “good enough”. Featured Music: Goo Goo Dolls "So Alive” The Shortlist “Sellout”   Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways Brandi is off caffeine for now Joelle gets fired up about Anne of Green Gables note:   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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

                  This week Michelle wants to know how Brandi feels about the need for a degree in graphic design. Lots of great stuff ahead, stay tuned! Featured Music: Sleeping At Last "Atlas: Four" John Mark McMillan "Wilderlove"   Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways Drive-In movies still exist The Handmaid's Tale is amazing, hello! Sleeping at Last Podcast note:   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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

                  It's been a little while, but Brandi & Michelle are back with some thoughts on creating like a child and where we've been for the past few months! Featured Music: John Mayer "New Light" Franz Ferdinand "Lazy Boy"   Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways We're back! Brandi didn't have bronchitis, it was actually a collapsed lung Michelle is BUSY and obsessed with the Enneagram text She's also working on a short film, you can follow @nuclearfamily Working like a child is sometimes more work Brandi decided to take up acrylic painting again and it's been quite the challenge Brandi asked herself, "What would my daughter do?" Michelle wrote a great poem once about "her life" Overthinking is the enemy of spontaneous creating note:   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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

Sometimes you have to tell yourself that you're not done creating and keep moving forward. This week we talk to Vesperteen frontman Colin Rigsby about what happens when one musical project slows down while another speeds up. We talk about the clash of creative endeavors, new avenues to explore and all the trolls that come along with it. https://www.vesperteenmusic.com Website: www.trollspodcast.com iTunes: bit.ly/trollspodcast RSS: bit.ly/trollsfeed Google: bit.ly/trollsgoogle

I'm joined not only by my lovely guest Vesperteen, but also some cohosts Lucas and Tony. We talk about his upcoming show at Newport (April 28), his tour, plus a whole lot more!   Music: Shatter In The Night What We Could Have Been It Will Never Be Enough Blue

                  Last weekend Brandi spent some time in San Francisco and wanted to share some of her inspirations and thoughts on the city. Brandi is also sick so there may be some hiccups, stay tuned. Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways No one (that I saw) really gets going in SF until after 9 (or 11 on the weekends) You will never be at a loss for a place to get waxed (shops are everywhere!) It’s quiet. Like it’s so quiet in areas that at times you wonder if anyone lives there The weather can change from sunny to rainy to windy and cloudy, all in like 15minutes—no joke Many of the streets are as steep as you think. They’re pretty similar to a roller coaster. The Dungeness crab (when fresh and in season) in garlic butter and roasted is some of the best seafood you will eat Walking is nice in many areas but beware of the sketchier areas that seem to come out of nowhere as you meander through the city Pier 39 is cool but touristy Brunch is serious business Exploratorium is so worth it!!!     [clear-line] 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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

                  It's a sabbatical week which means a shorter episode but Brandi talks about the various things she carries around every day to be ready for anything. Hope you enjoy it! Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways It's important to carry your phone but it's equally imortant to carry around analog tools. Things I carry: Pencils (cheap BIC ones) Ballpoint Pens Micron Pens Brush Pens Post It's Post It Tabs Moleskine or Field Notes Mini Ruler Inspiration can come from so many places and it's nice to have the opportunity to express myself in any way that I feel like or work on client stuff or mind maps and know that I am prepared.     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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

                  This week we celebrate one year of Design speaks. It's a Birthday celebration with some of our favorite people. Check out Instagram for some pics of the celebration. Everyone had some great things to say about the Podcast and they have all learned some great things about Design from the podcast. Even Michelle's husband, Kelly. Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways Joelle and her boyfriend Kurtis loved the Judge a Book by it's Cover challenge. Kenny really appreciated the interviews, especially the Hugh Weber interview. Kelly learned a ton about process while going through that process on his album art.     [clear-line] 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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week Michelle is out sick so here is an encore presentation of one of our first episodes on why your first idea usually sucks. Featured Music: Nick Drake. A 70’s artist. Good times. Check out his music here. Nick Drakes music sounds whimsical, ethereal, thoughtful, genuine, and is good straight chill/focus music.   Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways Elements of Design Principles of Design (you're welcome) Mind blowing revelation: “We live our present in light of our past.” -Brandi Aesthetic Apparatus: Gig poster design company. They have a surrealistic/collage type of gig posters.   detailed show notes: 2:15 Michelle went to a class on essential oils and got sucked into the essential oil hype. Are you guilty of this? Anyway, she’s been slightly obsessed. A great source has been The Essential Oil Revolution. Go check it out if you’re interested! 4:00 The story of Thieves essential: here! 6:09 Michelle gives an update on how much she cried during This is Us, and BREAKING NEWS: Brandi has watched the entire show! Miracles do happen! 6:40 She didn’t cry once. Heartless? Maybe. 8:22 Brandi Sea has started her process on her new addition to her Literary Art Portrait Series! Next up: Lewis Carroll. Check out her process and crazy mind map on Instagram! 10:34 Have you listened to Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin? He interviews other celebrities. Celebrities interviewing Celebrities is always fun to listen to. They ask all of the right questions! 11:00 Alec Baldwin interviewed Grace Cottington on his show, With some research, Brandi came across this super fun editorial with the Alice in Wonderland theme. Check it out! 12:26 Wanna be a part of the BrandiSea newsletter? Sign up at www.brandisea.com. 14:00 Bolth= New Mexican slang for “Both”   19:20 QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Is it a good idea to go with your gut feeling? 19:58 Brandi says initially, it’s not a good idea. From experience, and encounters with people… No. Your idea might be ok, and it might work, but it’s not the BEST. 21:33 It’s always possible that your first idea will work best, but you’ll never know that until you take the time to flesh out other possible ideas. 22:01 Educated Intuition: Going with your gut because you already know that it’s going to be a good choice based on your previous experience. 22:30 This can be related so many choices within life. Not just graphic design. Some examples are cooking and music. 23:18 There’s something to say about going with your gut when you actually have educated your “gut”. 24:00 The Power of “Why” 25:00 Treat yourself like a toddler would treat you, and always ask yourself “why”. Ask yourself why you’re doing something 3-5 times. If you can’t answer yourself… Figure it out. 25:45 This will help you know WHY you’re doing something, and even answer a client with any questions about your design. 26:24 “Your intuition is educated based on those why’s you’ve asked over the years.” -Brandi     [clear-line] 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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks.   SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week Michelle wants me to explain what spec work is, and why I hate it so much. If you want to get a quick and rough understanding of what spec work is and why it's the worst for the designer, you're in the right place. Featured Music: Justin Timberlake "Say Something" The Mowgli's "San Francisco" Thoughts, Inspirations, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways The Eagles made Superbowl history! Justin Timberlake performance Brandi's Inspiration this week: Rae Dunn's Book "France"   AIGA's  Position on Spec Work note: Here's the awesome sketch and quote by Dominic by Dominic Sedillo                                 [clear-line] 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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week Michelle and I want to share our thoughts and opinions on women in the [creative] workspace. We want to chat about the potentially faulty thinking in how women are perceived and how we relate to the opposite sex. Featured Music: Mikky Ekko "Not The One" Eves Karydas "Further Than The Planes Fly" Our Thoughts, Opinions, & Quick Takeaways Jennifer Lawrence Quote Michelle and I respect men and we recognize and appreciate the differences in men and women Women don't have as much ego built in to us as men potentially do so I don't think that women are as "noisy" as men about what they want The perception of women in leadership roles is that they have to be a "grinch" to do it as well as a man Women often fell like we have to "prove" ourselves We think embracing the idea of "equal but different" could be life changing for both men and women in a creative workspace UPDATE: I decided to put filming new episodes for Design Tip Tuesday on YouTube on hiatus. For more details, listen to the end of the podcast ;)   [clear-line] 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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week Michelle is wondering if it's "ok" to judge a book by it's cover. As a designer, I say the short answer is yes. The long answer, well you'll have to listen for that one. Quick Takeaways You can use book covers as a way to exercise your design critical brain Books hold so much potential for personal interpretation The cover design concept should communicate something about the actual content of the book, but creatively   [clear-line] 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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week we were incredibly privileged to have an amazing conversation with Hugh Weber. Hugh is laser focused on bringing people together and is a passionate advocate for design. Prepare yourself for one of our all time favorite guests. Some amazing takeaways from today's conversation with Hugh Weber! The easist pathway to create change is a simple introduction of two people. Design can really only exist in community You can design the life that you want. Lok for opportunities to make connections and create community Designers are "extraordinary bridge-builders" 46:01 - Design is everywhere but people don't notice or care, much like a fish swimming in the water who isn't aware of it (see link below for David Foster Wallace" Links to stuff Hugh referenced: Article: Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone? OTA Compassion International David Foster Wallace "What the Hell is Water?"   Podcasts Hugh is a part of:  The Potluck Society Leading Good                     Hugh ended the episode with some amazing encouragement for Michelle and I on what we're doing here on Design Speaks and I felt it was worthy of sharing: “I listened to a number of episodes [of Design Speaks] before I came to Albuquerque… One of the things I think is worthy of celebration is that your willingness to leave this at a conversation level, to make it accessible, to leave it unpolished, is a magical stroke in both great design but also self restraint. I mean, I think that the tendency to wanna perfect things is an inherent designer trait, and I think that in this way, you’ve made design more accessible both by the partnership that the two of you have, but also the willingness to say, 'this is an open conversation, and that we’re not sure where it’s gonna go'. But we know it has the directionality of better understanding designers, and designers better understanding the world around them; and that’s worthy of celebration. So thank you for continuing to have this conversation; I know it’s meaningful to the people that are listening in, and I can tell it’s meaningful to the two of you.” THANK YOU HUGH!!!!     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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSaveSaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week we tackle the New Year with some ideas and real tips on how to process your goals and figure out some ways to actually achieve them.   No songs this week everyone, but we had so much good info so just wait until next week! Here's some helpful links: Ink+Volt (Planners, etc.) S.M.A.R.T. Goals Jon Acuff FINISH Calendar Finish Book   Also here's a weird website on the word "forgo"   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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSaveSaveSave SaveSave

This week is a sabbatical week so we put together a 10 minute episode with three clips from our top guests of 2017: Colin Rigsby of Vesperteen, Leatrice Eiseman of the Pantone Color Institute, and Tim Brown of Hook Agency. Enjoy these nuggets of wisdom! Colin RIgsby of Vesperteen talks about his process and the importance of a client relationship to design. Leatrice Eiseman emphasizes the part that reasoning has when choosing colors for any project. Tim Brown of Hook Agency chats about his habits and how they influenced his work.   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.   HUGE shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) track in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week is a sabbatical week so we put together a 10 minute episode with three clips from our top guests of 2017: Colin Rigsby of Vesperteen, Leatrice Eiseman of the Pantone Color Institute, and Tim Brown of Hook Agency. Enjoy these nuggets of wisdom! Colin RIgsby of Vesperteen talks about his process and the […]The post Top 3 Guest Clips of 2017 – Episode 046 appeared first on BrandiSea Design Co..

Happy (almost) New Year! This week Michelle and Brandi wanted to take a quick look back at the amazing things they did last year on this podcast and in their lives. Thanks so much for spending 2017 with us on Design Speaks! Michelle's song: Taylor Swift New Year's Day Brandi's song: U2 New Year's Day   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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

Since this is our right-before-Christmas episode, Michelle wanted to know what kinds of gifts to get for a Creative or Graphic Designer. Brandi might have a few ideas... Michelle's song: Relient K - Merry Christmas, Here's to Many More Brandi's song: She & Him - Baby It's Cold Outside     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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week Michelle wants to know how creatives can tackle their fears and if you wait until the very end of the podcast you'll hear a bit about the Pantone Color of the Year 2018! Brandi's song this week: POWERS - Georgie Justin TImberlake - Blue Ocean Floor 27:10  Creatives deal with fear a lot. What are some ways we can approach overcoming our fears? You don't ever really "tackle your fears", you just accept them and do the thing anyway knowing you're afraid If we focus too much on failure we start to believe we are failures Failure is totally subjective Blog Post on Creative Courage SeanWes "Failure is not the end. It doesn't mean that it's over, it just means that you get to continue with experience." Fear can be controlled "Whatever you believe, you are." (Thank you Boss Baby, haha)   IMPORTANT!!!!! Pantone Color of the Year 2018 Announcement   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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week Michelle wants to know about something Brandi wrote about in a blog post a few weeks back about why you shouldn't trust a designer who doesn't collect something... interesting. Stay tuned. 2:19  Brandi's week Backyard work Day trip to Ruidoso She hasn't decided whether she will consult on designing on a space 7:43  Brandi's song this week: War on Drugs -  Nothing to Find                9:40  Michelle's Week Mount Taylor is an amazing place for Christmas Tree hunting  T-Mobile & Justin Bieber's Commercial (It's in German everyone)   11:40  Justin Bieber (with BloodPop®) - Friends    15:50  Blog Post on Collecting 16:00  This week's question: "Why don't you trust designers who don't collect something?" Does it have to be something you keep in your house? What does Brandi collect? Old Cameras Vintage (and non) Books Fonts (yikes, someone help me) Sketchbooks Posters Where do you store the stuff you collect? The majority of stuff Brandi collects is on her phone quotes, packaging, layouts, color schemes, etc.           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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week we talk about whether scrapping an idea happens and what to do when you hit dead ends in your process.   This week's songs:               Emery - Studying Politics                Micah Tawlks - So Lovely   (Found it on Soundcloud Guys!) 18:48  This week's question is from Listener Allie: "I would love to hear your thoughts about knowing when or if to scrap an idea. If you should scrap your ideas at all. Do you hit dead ends in your process and have to start fresh?"   Concepts are based on the problem I'm trying to solve, and the audience I'm trying to reach. My design should address all three of these.   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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

This week we have a special guest in studio and she wants to know where Brandi gets her inspiration and how she incorporates it into her work. Stay tuned for so much random and even more great info!   Because Joelle is joining us on today's show, Michelle and I are sharing a mic so... sorry about the weird volume at times. 01:40  Joelle loves bread & her favorite color is lime green 03:35  Michelle sold furniture and made a new friend 07:20  Brandi's week was pretty boring 09:40  Everyone has seen Thor but Brandi apparently... 12:05  The 1975 - Medicine               Mat Kearney - Better Than I Used To Be Dashboard Confessional - Fever Dreams 22:00  This week's question is from Joelle: "Where do you find inspiration and how do you incorporate that into your design and stuff?" 24:00  Brandi keeps a log of things that she finds inspirational whether it's cracks in the road or stuff she finds online 25:50  It takes intentionality to be looking for inspirational stuff all the time 26:25  Brandi has had to train her mind to be aware of everything around her 27:00  She explain how she actually takes the things she finds and can make it into designs 29:33  Inspiration can and does often become a style reference (here's the Freedom Fest Poster I talked about) 31:30  The Pantone Studio App is a brilliant inspiration-catcher     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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

Welcome to our first ever "Sabbatical Episode". Basically it's a shorter episode with more of a quick tip. This week we talk about taking breaks and how making lists is a great way to stay consistent at practicing something new. We are committed to making great content for you guys and in order to do that, taking breaks every seventh week is how we plan to prevent burnout so we still want to show up here every week! Sometimes it will be Michelle and I and sometimes it will just be me or me and a guest but we will be here. So every seventh week plan on hearing a short but valuable episode! 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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks SaveSave

This week Michelle wants to know what are some good ways to take feedback. Brandi has tons of advice and tactics to share that are so super helpful and valuable...hoorays! Dance Anthem of The 80's - Regina Spektor Nothing is Wrong - Kelly Bransford [clear-line] 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.   Shoutout to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks! SaveSave

This week we have a special guest joining us who specifically requested that we do a Halloween episode. So this week we tackle the topic of clients from hell. It's an entertaining one this week so here we go! Halloween Theme - Main Title by John Carpenter Don't Stop the Music - (cover) by Jamie Cullum You Better Run - Liam Gallagher   The infamous flag...                   Check out Dominic at DominicSedillo.com [clear-line] Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!  

This week we answer a question for Brandi from a listener, "When did you realize that you needed a process?" She talks about how she arrived at her current ideating, design/creative process and why. Enjoy! Tyson Motsenbacker - Cour d'Alene Third Eye Bline - Motorcycle Drive By   "Shakespeare's'" Sweet Potato Pudding Recipe   Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks! SaveSave

This week we chat a little bit more about branding, but this time Michelle wants to know more about Brandi's personal brand, BrandiSea. Brandi explains how she came to the brand she has, how it's the most difficult thing she's done, and why it works for her.   From Augustana Sweet and Low Weezer Beach Boys BEST SNL SKIT EVER!!!       Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!   SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave

What the heck is the difference between a logo and branding? Michelle wants to know and this is where you'll find the answer. And honestly, everyone needs to hear this episode.   From Indian Lakes We Follow (Stereotypes Remix Yelle Romeo   Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks! SaveSave

This week Michelle wants to know how Brandi handles ALL of the things she does in her life as an entrepreneur, mom, designer, teacher, and life-long learner. We unintentionally but amazingly come up with three "P's" to help you with your time management also!     Miley Cyrus "Week Without You" Bleachers "Don't Take the Money"   Plan: Know what you want to do Prepare: Use your spare minutes Prioritize: Figure out what you need to focus on     Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

So now that you have an idea of HOW to research, when do you know if you're done researching? Brandi answers on this week's podcast. Stay tuned. 1:00 Check out Brandi’s YouTube! New content every Tuesday for a thing she does called “Design Tip Tuesday”. 3:30 Michelle’s week cont…: She sent in an audition form for a musical. (omgoshgomgoshomgosh) 4:45 Michelle’s song of the week is by Ryan Adams, “To Be Without You” 7:18 Michelle LOVES talk shows. Is she in the minority???? 8:50 Brandis week cont…: She got a Nespresso machine! Hooray for caffeine! She also received a rare and out of print book, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.

This week we answer a question from a listener on how Brandi does her research. There's so much info that we had to answer in two separate episodes! This is part one of 2 episodes on RESEARCH! If you didn’t know, research is so very important… (Thus, the two-parter).   1:40 Michelles week: This week she cleaned, got a manicure with Bio Sculpture Gel Nails… Soooo good. And she played words with friends. It’s back! 4:00 Michelle is curating her instagram. Tons of people do it, and it’s so much fun. Before she started she did lots of RESEARCH, and now she curates it. This means she has has a specific look and theme to her insta. You can follow her at @michellebransfo :D 5:27 We need to do an episode about our favorite creative apps! I’m putting this here so we don’t forget. 6:30 Michelle’s song of the week is by Damien Rice, Your Favorite Faded Fantasy 10:15 We’re trying to make it be fall. Why is it still so hot? Ughhhhhhh 11:00 Brandi’s week: She is learning french because in a few years she’s going to europe (Paris) in a few years. She should be well prepared. She got the Keds that she talked about a few episodes ago, and she spent some time remembering 9/11. Go to her Instagram to see her post from that day. 16:30 Brandi’s song of the week is by Echosmith, Future me 19:19 Embrace your weird! 20:00 Question time! What are options for research? 21:00 She rarely uses Google. Reasons to use google: To make sure that she avoids copyright infringement. That sounds like a really good idea. Example 1: Darling & Dapper Hair Parlor 22:35 After she does her mind map and gains her concept she can know what she’s researching. 23:51 Pantone color books! (In this case she researched “Color schemes used in different eras” 24:30 Fun Fact: Pinterest is a SEARCH ENGINE, not a social media forum. 25:14 Tv shows ended up being an avenue for this specific project. Example 2: Album Art 28:18 She needed to do research on symbolism on shape psychology. She used a books call “Symbols And Allegories in Art” 30:05 Game of thrones saying is actually “Winter is Coming”. Leave it to Michelle to get a saying wrong. *rolling eyes emoji* 33:31 Always research color theory! 33:35 Research creatively! Use books, pinterest, tv shows, head out to the library…. 34:09 The NY Public Library released their visual archives for free. USE THIS! 35:45 Here we reminisce about Borders. RIP. 37:35 We introduce Kristen. She’s a bell. She’s an encourager, much like the actress Kristen Bell. 38:30 Stay tuned for Part II of this topic in Episode of 32 of Design Speaks! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks! SaveSave SaveSave

This week Michelle is back and wants to know what some good mindsets might be for [design] students to have going into something new. Brandi get's a little fired up so prepare yoursef! 1:30 Happy 30th episode birthday!!! 1:45 If you haven’t listened to last weeks episode with Dominic Sedillo - go do it ASAP! 2:25 Michelle’s week: Birthday parties… Lots of them. She filmed with a local YouTuber, Kelly Harrison, and checked out some local improv. 6:00 Michelle’s song of the week: Taylor Swift, Look What You Made Me Do (or LWYMMD) 9:35 Fun facts: This song was co-written with Jack Antonoff from Bleachers AND some writing credits went to Right Said Fred for providing dat beat. 11:22 The Apparently Kid 12:00 Brandi’s week: She bought new *embroidered* floral Keds, she FINALLY made a lettering pattern for Vida, and she picked up a class to teach at SUVA on Design Concepts. 19:00 Brandi’s song of the week: Beck, Dear Life 21:35 Check out our Spotify playlist, called Music From Design Speaks. 22:45 Question of the week!: What are some mindsets you should have when walking into a new class (or experience).     Tips 23:00 Tip #1. Get over yourself! 25:35 Tip #2. It’s ok to not know everything (and admit it) 26:45 Tip #3. Learn on your own. There are 24 hrs in a day, and you’ve gotta do things for yourself sometimes. 29:41 Tip #4. Don’t be afraid to ask questions! 31:40 Tip #5. LEARN how to take criticism. It’s hard. We know. It’s sooooooo very very very very difficult. But do it. Just. Do. It. 34:32 Tip #6. Start doing things NOW. Don’t wait until you have a diploma in hand. Just start. (as Jon Acuff says.) 35:22 Tip #7. Remember why you’re there. If you don’t know, you’re not going to take it seriously. 36:50 Tip #8. Do the work! 38:17 Tip #9. Have a P R O C E S S. 39:00 Check out Brandi’s blog post for all 10 tips and a bit more info! Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks! SaveSave SaveSave

Please welcome special guest co-host for the week, Dominic Sedillo!!! *applause and cheering* Quick rundown on Mr. Dominic Sedillo: Dominic is an illustrator. He’s been drawing since he was “knee high to a duck” #what????? He draws stuff. Like really good stuff. He is the senior illustrator and branding assistant for a privately owned drink company. http://dominicsedillo.com/ Instagram Twitter 6:05 Dominic has a good amount of side hustle stuff. (He’s a hustler, baby… but not that kind of hustler; he's a self-proclaimed "Digital Hustler".) He’s working on a publishing a few books, one of those things being a collection of illustrations from Inktober, which is a 31 day drawing challenge for illustrators. 6:50 Dominic LOVES everything horror. Like, you most likely cannot beat him in a horror trivia night. 6:53 He wrote and illustrated a zombie book that YOU can get at mrwormfood.com. 7:26 He’s also working on sketch notes book. What are sketch notes? Sketch notes are graphic recordings. You know when you take notes in a lecture, and then you look over to to your neighbor and their “notes” have a bunch of incredible drawings all over it along with the words that the teacher is saying… so you try to put your arm over your notes because you all of the sudden realize how lame yours are? He’s making a book of those. 9:24 Dominic week: Work is cRaZzZaAy, but so much fun. 12:10 Interesting fact: Dominic does not fix things (we’re assuming around the house.) 12:54 His song for the week: Carly Rae Jepsen, "Higher" 14:45 Dominic is a walking contradiction. He Photoshop 33:00 Regardless of whether you are using a digital tablet or a paper tablet, the iterative process is important. As a creative, you are going on a journey to get to where you need to be. 34:00 Remember, your first idea MIGHT be the best idea, but you shouldn’t ever go for it unless you’ve gone over other idea’s too! 35:57 Dominic talks about this a bit more in his blog here. 46:42 How to answer someone what they ask this question: Explain to them (in english, pls) the basics of your process. i.e. “I started off doing this, and then I did this, and then i moved into this program, blah blah blah…” 38:00 Never show them the sketch without the final drawing. They might just think you’re messing around. However, you can show them the sketch along with the final drawing, and it helps them connect the dots. 40:43 Have an elevator pitch as to “how you did this”. 41:46 Made up word of the week by Brandi: Vamango. It’s in shampoo, but only Dominic’s shampoo. Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

  This week Michelle wants to understand a branding project Brandi has been working on. She thinks the logo was awesome in black and white and wants some explanation of why Brandi decided to add color to it. We also talk about fall, the OC, and of course, the Solar Eclipse. [clear-line] Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

This week is a bit off format but we honestly just wanted to get some New York trip off our chests and share with you some of our experiences! Hope you enjoy ;) [clear-line] Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

This week we have a super special show in store for you, an interview FROM NEW YORK with Jason Bacher   01:07 We're recording in Michelle's bedroom today, so there's appropriate background noises 01:30 We met Jason at a super cool coffee shop called Irving Farm Coffee Roasters on the Lower East Side (Brandi was right!) 03:50 THIS IS YOUR WARNING: This show has language. 04:12 We are here with Jason Bacher 04:25 Everything "s s ssounds" good 04:40 What was Jason's motivation for moving to New York (from Ohio) 04:52 What would their studio (GFDA) look like in New York? Bigger, faster? 05:05 It HAS changed, but initially felt very temporary 05:20 He fell in love with New York and never wants to leave (I know the feeling Jason) 05:36 Jason talks about what has changed since he moved to NYC 06:52 Jason really misses being able to "hi-five" someone physically at times 08:03 When you're working alone, hi-fiving yourself sometimes happens 08:28 Jason's new favorite place to hang with people is an actual watering hole, called Sweetwater 09:00 James (Victore) introduced Jason to this place 09:07 Jason answers Brandi's question on how his brand GFDA got started, the motivation and what's in the name 10:46 He wasn't seeing a light bulb turn on for his students and wanted a way to wake them up 11:00 Talked with his business partner Brian about the idea of being able to deliver advice to people without having to see their work. The only way that they felt it would be powerful enough was to include profanity as the "hook". 11:49 GFDA was created in black, white, and red, in Helvetica, and always only the F word for impact used very specifically 12:30 They were basically taken by surprise cause it was not planned and all of a sudden was a success. 13:25 How Brandi found Jason 14:00 Brandi loves Jason's format of newsletter, you should definitely subscribe 15:58 How Jason handles creative block, or friction 16:05 TIME LIMITS!!!!! 17:14 The trick is making things you like or love and people will come to you 17:42 You shouldn't really ever create things JUST for other people 19:00 Not everyone has the same level of taste, especially clients at times 20:30 Your job as the designer is to show them what they need and why 22:10 On "firing" clients and what can be a cause 24:08 Client briefs and their importance in weeding out clients 25:01 On pricing: Just ask the client how much money they have, sort of. 26:45 It's actually nice to make money sometimes as a freelance business owner 27:20 Payment plan options are a cool way to help clients be able to afford design 28:51 People should not have to give up food on their table to invest be able to buy design 30:45 What's the poster all about? 32:10 Jason and Brian are okay with you stealing some stuff, cause you'll give them your money sooner or later ;) 33:12 First priority for GFDA is not making money, it's getting stuff in people's hands and making an impact on them 33:53 They launched Lorem F*#!ing Ipsum 34:15 Thinking inside the box to promote his stuff 34:50 SNEAK PEEK: working on getting a publisher for their new book "Everybody Swears". 35:40 Brandi just sounds awkward swearing 36:01 Jason slips his swearing under the door after he shows them he knows stuff 36:36 Brandi knows nothing about what IQ scores are good... 38:00 Profanity used correctly in a presentation can wake the audience up a bit 41:04 In the beginning of GFDA Jason and Brian worried if it would work or not 42:45 There are always moments of failure, especially in creating your own products   Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!   SaveSave

This week Brandi's husband Kenny is sitting in for Michelle. Things might get weird, stay tuned! :50 Surprise! Michelle is gone this week but extra surprise: Brandi's husband Kenny is filling in. MORE NOTES TO COME 12:40 Kenny's song is by our good friends Copperlily it's called "A Lot to Learn" 15:00 Brandi thinks it's Tuesday, but it's Wednesday :P 17:18 Brandi has been working on and finished Album Art for Michelle's husband Kelly's Kickstarter, GO SUPPORT IT!!!! like right now. go, now. 18:45 Buy Brandi pens if you want to make her happy ;) MORE NOTES COMING I PROMISE Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!   SaveSave SaveSave

Michelle wants to know some stuff about type and who Brandi looks to for inspiration for type, or letters, or typography, or.. ..lettering? It's a fun time you guys. :50 Welcome!!! Michelle’s week was super productive. She went to a wedding AND listened to an entire season of a podcast. NPR’s Invisibilia…AND binged the latest season of OITNB. Dang. 3:07 Michelle’s song for the week: Selena Gomez, Bad Liar 6:20 Brandi’s week was very similar to Michelle’s. Wedding times, 4th of July, and then it was time to straight veg. She camped out on the couch and watched a new show… Handmaids Tale, iZombie and Fear The Walking Dead. 7:00 Handmaids Tale has so many great uses of coloring, Grays and reds!

Michelle went to a creative event this week and wants to know what tips Brandi has for creatives who are feeling low or discouraged that they won't ever have another good idea. :50 Michelle’s week! 1:00 Michelle went to a “creative night” with special guest Propaganda. 1:25 Check this dude out. Seriously. Smart guy, amazing things to say. He’s a rapper, spoken word artist, and so much more. 2:19 Does anyone else turn on their voice memo and just record fun conversations??? Is that weird? 2:50 Brandi’s week! Lots of time spent at the library. Here are some cool children’s art books she’s found! Come Look With Me Series I Spy for art pieces No One Saw  9:13 Brandi’s Song this week is by Portugal, The Man 12:15 Topic of the week - this week we talk about how often creatives are completely burnt out, or more commonly, overcome by fear and have some intense low points. Fear of not succeeding, fear of their idea being terrible, fear of never having another good idea ever again. F E A R. 16:41 Most important things to do to make sure you keep on having good ideas!!! 16:41 NUMBER ONE on the priority list! Making sure you have a process and f o l l o w i n g it!!! 17:01 If you don’t follow your process, the outcome for your next project will pretty much be the same as your last project. 18:11 It can be lonely and frustrating if you don’t know a lot of creatives, so the next thing you should do is have a community. Find one! Social media is your friend for this, as well as the REAL LIFE community you live it! Check out this blog post that has all of the links you need to find your community! 21:26 Try new things! Tired of logos? Dabble in photography, learn about screen printing, do something new that can expand what you actually work on! 23:30 Propaganda says, “When things are hard, I really enjoy the wrestle to excellent.” 24:56 Embrace the struggle. Embrace the journey. 23:54 You do you! Be amazing. Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks! SaveSave

This week we approach the ever-ubiquitous word "hipster". What is a hipster and what can we, as creatives (or normal people) learn from them to be better at what we do? 2:00 Reminiscing about Leatrice Eisemen! 2:30 Michelle’s Week: Lots of filming and sun! 3:33 Tanning sucks. It’s bad for your skin, it fades your expensive tattoos, AND you have to buy new make up. No thanks. 5:00 Michelle’s Song: The Chainsmokers and Coldplay, Something Just Like This. 8:20 Check out the artwork for this song. It’s pretty sweet. 8:40 Remember, you can listen to our spotify playlist if you wanna hear any of the music we’ve played on Design Speaks! 9:30 Brandi’s Week! She worked at the event Michelle was filming at, but at night. She spent time at the pool with her kiddo, and read some books— “The Film Club” 11:40 Brandi’s Song: Wavorly, Strangers In Love 25:45 *NSYNC is better than Backstreet Boys. Don’t argue. They had Justin. 16:30 Definition of Hipster: A person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural original mainstream. 19:31 Brandi’s definition: People who say they’re not following the trends, but they actually are. 19:48 Question of the week: Is there anything good/anything we can learn from “hipsters”? 21:45 Check out Brandi’s blog post, “What We Can Learn From The Hipster Mindset” 21:55 The term hipsters came from the 60’s beatniks. They were trying to go against the trends, not set them. Black turtlenecks, not a lot of color… Opposite of the hippies. 23:23 Hipsters place high value on certain things… Whatever they choose to be passionate about, they become really passionate about and make it awesome. Coffee, house decor, organic food. Often this leads to changing the world! 24:14 The like new versions of old things. A weird nostalgia for things they’ve never experienced (vinyl records, polaroids/analog film) 25:00 Midnight in Paris 26:58 The hipster mindset is to use hands on tools - sketchpads, things that are not computers. 27:45 Lomography definition, in case you didn't know what it was 28:03 This might create a jack of all trades, master of none mentality because everything is so easily accessed. 30:00 They see the world differently. They have the ability to look at something gross to other people, and see its potential. (an old chair dumped on a sidewalk. they take it home, and remake it.) 21:34 Their unique approach to problems are rad! They share their process, their progress, and have a new sense of transparency that we haven’t experience before they showed up on the scene. 33:40 By doing this, it creates a community of likemindedness. 34:29 Hipsters want to know the trends, but they want to find something in it that’s special to them. (Brandi looooves the word "bazillion") 35:19 Designers have to do the same thing! We should be following the trends, but figuring out what’s special in them to us. 36:21 Seriously, be willing to learn from people who are not like you! Change your outlook. Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

This week Brandi and Michelle talk about which came first, the image, or the type? And which one matters more...? :50 Lesson of the day: Do NOT run before you have to talk into a microphone! 1:20 Michelle talks about her oh-so-interesting week. She saw a hawk. Is that cool? 5:00 Brandi’s week. She went to DALLAS for an AIGA retreat! This is actually cool. 6:00 Best retreat ever. She drank the Kool-Aid. Listen to her talk about it and you might also drink the kool-aid. No joke. 7:30 Justin Ahrens - Design for Good 7:34  Women Lead Initiative 8:00 Diversity & Inclusion Initiative 9:26 In-House Initiative 9:53 Scholarships & Design Plus 14:00 Brandi’s song this week is Bastille, “Blame” 16:02 Question time!!!! In a design, is the image or type supposed to be more important than the other? 17:30 It’s depends! Your image and type should have a symbiotic relationships! 18:20 Aesthetic Apparatus is a brilliant example of a symbiotic relationship. 19:16 Keyword: Process!!!! 19:32 Example time. Justin Timberlake is the basis of said example.

  This week is our shortest episode ever. So far. Michelle and Brandi talk about design tools and whether it's the tool or the user that's actually important. Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by The Looking Glass Prophet Story by Cobi Pat Hines & Microsoft Word   Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

This week we have special guest interview. The one and only Colin Rigsby of Vesperteen (yes, the very same Vesperteen that is our podcast song) joins us. In addition to being a talented and brilliant musician, he is also and incredible designer and he has a lot of stuff to say. – – – – […]The post INTERVIEW: Colin Rigsby of Vesperteen – Episode 017 appeared first on BrandiSea Design Co..Support the show (https://buymeacoffee.com/BrandiSea)

This week we have special guest interview. The one and only Colin Rigsby of Vesperteen (yes, the very same Vesperteen that is our podcast song) joins us. In addition to being a talented and brilliant musician, he is also and incredible designer and he has a lot of stuff to say. - - - - Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

Colin Rigsby of colorful pop band Vesperteen performs live and chats for WCPO Lounge Acts. What is it about Columbus that’s inspired so much joyous, colorful pop music lately? From world-beating duo Twenty One Pilots to up-and-comers Vesperteen, our neighbor to the north is doing something very right. Fronted by drummer/singer Colin Rigsby, Vesperteen channels the glammy vibe of Queen shot through with the sexual energy of 1980s Australian pop-rock icons INXS and the electronic bent of contemporary groups like Bleachers and The 1975. The band’s self-titled 2015 EP features their signature digital pop anthem, “Shatter in the Night,” a rousing track that mixes programmed drums and keyboards under distorted vocals and guitars for an epic song that belongs in front of massive festival crowds even as the group makes its way up the musical ladder in sweaty rock clubs. The other tunes on that six-track effort stir in elements of gospel (“I Never Knew How to Love You”), ambient rock (“Obsess/Possess”) and the aforementioned INXS-like pop (“Feathers so Hollow”). It makes sense that Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun has tweeted out props to Vesperteen and worn the group’s merch, as he and Rigsby both drummed in the Columbus Christian-associated band House of Heroes before moving on to to their current projects. (They also reportedly share the same drum tattoo on their arms.) After writing, recording and touring the world with House of Heroes for a decade, Rigsby took a break, only to find himself working on new music that turned into his solo project. The one-man-band’s name is a play on the word vespertine, which, fittingly, refers to something that flourishes in the evening. You know, like a rock band. The mash-up sound has clearly made an impression on the group’s many followers (known as the Vesperteam), who were tapped earlier this year to star in a crowd-sourced video for the bouncy new wave single “What We Could Have Been.”

This week Michelle wants to know when (if ever) it is okay to just say no when asked to design something, firing clients, and how Brandi is really the "Simon" of design critique. 1:20 Thanks Matt Kearney for listening!! .< 37:05 Michelle educated someone on plagiarizing and mind mapping and going through a process!!!

                This week Michelle wanted to "hardcore wing it" and talk to Brandi a bit about picturing her own audience for the stuff she does and how other people can try to figure it out. Katy Perry apparently has new music too Harry Styles... wow. Michelle and her husband are diving back into How I Met Your Mother (for the third time) Izzy Ray Remember from the Album Liminality Alone time with Netflix = Brandi watching Santa Clarita Diet Brandi's been a fan forever and he's basically everywhere. Mat Kearney Heartbreak Dreamer  Brandi get's called out by Jason Bacher when he asks her if she can "envision" who her audience is...   Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

This week we get a little carried away talking but stick with us and you'll be shocked to learn how designers actually use math. 13 Reasons Why Penny Dreadful Blindside Album Art Trends this Week via @BrandiSea on Instagram Ugmonk Newsletter is the one Brandi Couldn't Remember Sylvan Esso Seagulls on YouTube (thanks to Brandi's husband Kenny and I apologize for the earworm in advance) Design Tip Tuesdays Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!

This is our longest episode ever (so far), we decided to just keep talking because there’s just so much to say about our week; including Michelle’s question about growing as an artist. 1:12 This just in: Next week will be Episode 13. A complete bakers dozen. (also, we're dorks) 1:33 Brandi was selling her own things, and Michelle was buying people's stuff. 2:00 Michelle makes spring cleaning a year round thing. You should too. 2:47 Relient K released a fun song for Earth Day. Find it. Listen to it. 3:25 Michelle went to Buffalo Exchange’s dollar sale for Earth Day. m/ 4:30 Prepare yourself for this sale. It can get wild. 5:15 This weekend we’re going to Austin for a rad weekend Creative retreat with James Victore! Tune into next week's episode for Brandi to impart some wisdom from the retreat. 9:51 Do you sometimes have random things that randomly pop up all over in your life? This week it was the word “Technicolor” for Michelle. 12:00 Michelle’s song of the week: Coldplay, Lost! 13:27 Have you seen the Viva La Vida commercial? Such a fun commercial, and totally was what got Michelle hooked on Coldplay. 15:24 Adventures are never fun when you’re in them. NEVER. 16:37 Brandi’s week: She’s stoked for Austin. We both are.

This week Michelle wants to know how to create something without accidentally plagiarizing someone else's work. 1:00 Fun and ExCiTiNg things with Michelle this week! 1. An out of the ordinary playlist on Apple Music… the Breakup playlist. (Adele, Lauryn Hill, One Republic…GOOD music!) 2. The color palette of Target for 2017 springtime! It’s so pwitty! 4:46 Stay tuned next episode for whatever the heck Michelle is going to do with all of this color inspiration! D: 5:00 Michelle’s song for this week is Sia, Elastic Heart. Go watch her music video, featuring Maddie Ziegler and Shia Lebeouf. Such a great video! 8:05 BREAKING NEWS: Brandi has actually heard this song! *standing ovation* 10:00 Things that Brandi was super into this week: She’s been planning a cool project/awareness campaign for women involving makeup and their faces as canvases. Keep listening for new updates on this great idea! 13:28 Brandi’s song for this week: Knox Hamilton, Rightfully So 14:58 Brandi is always looking for the better way. We’ll talk about our “whys” in a future episode. Side note: we’re both really intrigued by personality tests and what they say about us. Anyway… 15:31 She hates having songs on repeat because she’s afraid of missing a better song. 17:47 People relate to you better when you show your progress. It helps them realize that great things take time! 18:00 Except for haircuts. Don’t show us our haircut in progress, unless you want a minor meltdown in your chair. 18:45 Check out some of Brandi’s beginners work on her Instagram! 19:28 Sean Wes says to iterate in public. Show them where you came from! 20:00 Question of the week: How do you use someone else’s work as inspiration without ripping them off? 20:53 “There is nothing new under the sun.” - The oh-so-wise King Solomon. 21:48 There’s always going to be something you do that looks like something else. 22:50 You need to inform your client that copying other people outright is not okay 23:10 A good practice to have is to research! 23:25 Find a style reference (Something that feels like you want your project to feel like) 24:03 Jam your brain with information! 24:18 DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING! No designing allowed! 25:31 Sleep on it! Close your eyes. S L E E P. 25:48 Your brain helps your solve problems when you’re sleeping. (that’s why dreams are so cool.) 26:25 When you wake up (or when you can after you've slept), start sketching. 27:00 Refer back to the research you’ve made and combine ideas. 27:49 When you’ve designed something, research again! Search your image. Double check your work and make sure you’re not accidentally plagiarizing. :D 30:29 Sorry if our podcast is too short for you. Wah wah waaaaaahhhhh 33:00 We’re on Soundcloud, Google Play, AND iTunes now! 34:30 We also have a Spotify playlist. 34:45 Give us your feed back on www.brandisea.com and @brandisea on Instagram & Twitter. Check out Vesperteen - Thanks to him for letting us use his song, Shatter in The Night, for our show. Wouldn’t be the same without some Vesperteen in our lives.

This week Michelle asks, "What are some things to keep in mind when working with others?" Brandi shares two key thoughts on how to collaborate with other creatives. :53 On this episode we’ll be talking about Designers, Collaboration, and Ego. 2:11 Michelle threw caution to the wind and auditioned for a musical! 4:13 Would you consider baking shows reality tv? We need to know! 4:52 Michelle has been watching random documentaries. On this weeks list: Chef’s table, Iris, and The Great British Baking Show. SO. GOOD. Also, she called it The Great British Cooking Show. She’s so American. *rolls eyes* 7:02 Kooky. The Great British Baking Show is kooky. 7:44 Brandi went to California, and the beach was nice but cold. (ohhhh, pobrecita….) 9:23 Vida: a company that pairs with artists and the makers. Legit. Check them out! They’ve asked Brandi to be an artist that they collaborate with!!!! 10:45 They also “give back”. read up on how! shopvida.com 11:43 @pokraslampas on Instagram… He’s a “calligraphity artist”. GENIUS! 12:32 WE HAVE SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE! Be proud of me! (please?) 13:15 Song of the week: Thank God For Girls, Weezer

In Episode 41 Angelo and Brandon talk to Kyle from DBMK! Topics: Kyle tells us about his experience as a student at Berklee College of Music so far (but won't tell us his grades...), we go into detail about their latest release "Collapse", we discuss the crossover of fans between Vesperteen and DBMK, Kyle eludes to some amazing news coming soon (including tour dates), we have one of the best Fan Frenzy segments to date, and much more! Find out more about DBMK: http://denimbluemusic.com Opening Track: DBMK — Boxing Gloves Full Track: DBMK — Nocturne Outro Track: DBMK — Pills Subscribe to the Spinning Thoughts Podcast on iTunes, Google Play & more. Follow the podcast on Facebook and Twitter (@SpinThoughtsPod) to keep up-to-date with Angelo (@avgargaro), Brandon (BRobSpin) and everything music! Please visit our website for more! www.spinningthoughtspodcast.wordpress.com

In Episode 29 Angelo talks to Colin Rigsby from Vesperteen! Topics Covered: The inspiration behind the new music video for "What We Could Have Been", how amazing his fans (The Vesperteam) are, the headlining hometown show at Rumba Cafe in Columbus OH. on Feb. 17, we talk about Vesperteen's unique approach to live performances, we discuss the potential of getting new music and tour dates out, Colin digs into the "Fan Frenzy" segment, and much more! Find out more about Vesperteen: www.vesperteenmusic.com Opening Track: Vesperteen — Shatter In The Night Full Track: Vesperteen — Inhale and Hold Outro Track: Vesperteen — Feathers So Hollow Subscribe to the Spinning Thoughts Podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and TuneIn. Follow the podcast on Facebook (www.facebook.com/spinningthoughtspodcast) and Twitter (@SpinThoughtsPod)to keep up-to-date with Angelo (@avgargaro) and everything music! Please visit our website for more! www.spinningthoughtspodcast.wordpress.com

Host Brandon Rike sits down with Colin Rigsby (House Of Heroes, Vesperteen) to discuss why we create, and how our creativity evolves over time. Colin opens up about where his new creative endeavor, Vesperteen, came from, and the "itch" that it scratches. Brandon and Colin discuss making a big creative vision, and understanding how that need changes with our lives. COLIN'S CREATIVE OUTLETS Vesperteen House Of Heroes Graphic Design CREDITS: Created by: Brandon Rike Produced by: Brandon Rike, Brian Skeel of Chris Graham Mastering Theme Music: The Hands Of Stone Title Song Remixed by: Jesse Cale Website + Facebook