Creative Career Starter
Learn the secrets of a successful creative job search from young, award-winning creative pros. Each episode, I interview a young creative professional about the steps they took to go from design school grad to successful employee at a creative firm. Through their stories, we cover topics like: their high school experience, figuring out a creative path, identifying creative firms you’d love to work for, connecting with the right people inside of them, building a focused design portfolio website, preparing for and winning the interview and negotiating job offers. They also discuss what they now look for in emerging talent as...
Episode 31: NFTs will be part of your Creative Career
In the spirit of bringing a deeper understanding of the NFT space as a skill for your job search, a conversation with Ryan Haigh (@HeyHaigh) and Martin Bekerman (@MySavageDogs) that will help you understand the key principles for success in the NFT world. These guys get it.
Episode 30: Ryan Haigh - The Emerging and Undeniable World of NFTs Explained
A conversation with Ryan Haigh, my friend and cryptocurrency shaman. We will be discussing the rapidly growing, incredibly complex world of NFTs (non-fungible tokens). It's a place where he has become an influential voice and content expert. He's so good at this that he got me into the marketplace on Foundation.app. Good stuff here. Follow him on Twitter @heyhaigh
Episode 29: Frank DiPinto (PART 2) Creative Director at Electronic Arts
Part 2 of my conversation with Frank DiPinto - who is a Creative Director at Electronic Arts, the computer games giant. Frank, who calls himself a “creative athlete”, moved from Adidas to Electronic Arts and has parlayed his passion for sports and gaming into a unique and interesting position at EA. He has great advice for young designers with a love for sports and design.
Episode 28: Frank DiPinto, Senior Designer at Adidas
A conversation with Frank DiPinto, Creative Director at Electronic Arts - the computer games giant located in Redwood, California. Frank has had quite an amazing career for someone just 10 years out of design school - starting at VF Imagewear in Tampa, then moving to Adidas in Portland - and now Electronic Arts. In Part 1 of our conversation, we will discuss his experience at Adidas.
Episode 27: David Nardone, Creative Director and Designer in the Cannabis Industry
A conversation with David Nardone, a Creative Director and Designer serving a diverse family of state-legal cannabis goods committed to helping people & pets in their everyday lives. David has spent the last 5 years primarily in the cannabis and CBD-infused product sector creating branding and packaging and making information more accessible in a rapidly expanding and sometimes confusing category.
We’ll talk about what he does, how he got where he is, and what he looks for in young talent when he’s reviewing a portfolio.
To see David’s work, visit: www.davidnardone.com
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Episode 26: John Sinsabaugh, Senior Lead, Product Design at The Athletic
A conversation with John Sinsabaugh, Senior Lead, Product Design at The Athletic -- a subscription-based media publisher of really smart sports coverage for die-hard fans. John started his career at HUGE in NYC as a visual designer, then moved to Elephant in San Francisco before moving to his current position at The Athletic just over 2 years ago
We’ll talk to John about what he does, how he got where he is, and what he looks for in young talent when he’s reviewing portfolios.
Episode 25: Connect your HS art student to a design career
A conversation with with Mike McDougall - the parent of a talented young artist who needed a bit of help figuring out how to translate his love of “art” into a career. Mike will discuss the range of feelings and concerns a parent has when hearing your young HS student wants to go to art school.
Episode 24: Being a UX Designer at the Federal Reserve Bank
In this podcast, I’ll be talking with Jared Unger, Senior UX Designer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland about what he does, how he got where he is, and what he looks for in young talent when he’s reviewing a portfolio.
Episode 23: Phil Czapla, Brand Designer at Pinterest
In this episode I talk with Phil Czapla, a Brand Designer at Pinterest in San Francisco, about what he does, how he got where he is, and what he looks for in young talent when he’s reviewing portfolios. Phil has lots of great advice around how to impress during the interview: "When designers come with perspective and they have an opinion...it’s really good”. Have a listen!
Episode 22: Breaking into Sports Design
Today I’ll be talking with young designer Cam Chatt - who just accepted a graphic design position at OddsChecker - the UK’s #1 sports betting odds comparison site. The perseverance and single-mindedness that Cam showed during his 18 month job search is like nothing I’ve seen. He’s going to tell us how he dealt with the pandemic, a tight job market, the canceling of all professional sports, and worst of all...coming in second for 2 sports design positions he really wanted - before sticking the landing and getting hired at OddsChecker.
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