This episode we’re with Ben Miles, Executive Creative Director at Interbrand Australia. Ben has been with Interbrand for over a decade and during that time has seen it evolve and change — this is what Ben terms the ‘three horizons of Interbrand Australia’. We spend some time unpacking these periods, why people made the culture and how the studio has tried to ‘stand apart’ from what is expected of them. We also discuss the new ownership and how big data will further evolve the studio. Matt often ...
May 24, 2019•56 min
In this episode, we spoke with Katja Forbes Managing Director of Designit. Katja is the Managing Director of Designit ANZ, Director, she’s on the IxDA global board, one of 100 women of influence and in the top 10 female entrepreneurs in Australia. She's a specialist in research & experience design with the qualifications that go with it, she's an educator, mentor, coach, who gets genuinely excited when talking about being in 'the field' doing research and understanding how humans interact wi...
Apr 04, 2019•51 min
In this episode, we spoke with Zoë Pollitt and Natasha Hasemer from independent creative agency eskimo. Specialising in fashion, retail, luxury property and consumer goods eskimo design has been a colourful part of the Australian design tapestry for twenty years. Recently, Zoë and Tash have both taken a sabbatical, we unpack what that means, what’s next amid our jealousy. We spoke about the years working together before eskimo at Vogue Australia, founding an agency 20 years ago and managing ...
Mar 28, 2019•51 min
ADR EP98 with Rob Self-Pierson on Words and Verbs Rob Self-Peirson is a writer and brand consultant based in London, UK. He is the founder and head of The Table, an agency devoted to tone of voice and copywriting. He’s worked with the likes of GumTree, British Gas, IKEA, V&A and has a fierce love of design and a desire to see designers and writers working closely together. Rob was actually in Australia (thanks to the Australian Graphic Design Association) for a round of seven workshops focus...
Feb 15, 2019•49 min
Episode 97 with Carlo Giannasca on Limelight and Curtains. Carlo Giannasca is a multi-award-winning graphic and three-dimensional environmental designer. He is the Head of Urbanite, Design Director and one of the founder/owners of Frost*collective. On top of that, he is the joint chair of Sydney's SEGD chapter (The Society for Experiential Graphic Design). In this episode, we chart Carlo’s introduction to design, from drawing on his bedroom walls to hassling Garry Emery into givi...
Jan 18, 2019•52 min
Mike Rigby is Vice President and Executive Creative Director at R/GA. We know Mike from his time in Australia working as Creative Director at Interbrand and although he’s always been on our list of people to talk to on the show, the timing never worked out. So when we found out Mike would be at Adobe Max when we were, we jumped at the chance to make it finally happen. This episode could’ve gone in many different directions because when you talk Mike, you quickly realise he has a vast depth of kn...
Jan 14, 2019•47 min
Episode 95 with Jessica Hische on Encouragement and Bravery. Jessica hardly needs an introduction, she is a creative icon and well known for her illustration work, side projects and phenomenal client work. But for those out there who may not know her, she is described on her website as a lettering artist and author with a tendency to overshare and a penchant for procrastiworking. We spoke about design and life, having children, coming up with ideas and her new amazing book Tomorrow I’ll be Brave...
Jan 04, 2019•41 min
EP94 with Mark Heaps on Life and Fulfilment In this episode, we spoke with Mark Heaps, designer and synergist. Mark is an American designer from Austin Texas who studied art and design in the UK. With his wife, he runs a service group with a small team of designers and production experts. This episode was recorded in Los Angeles as part of our Adobe Max series. We spoke about the beginning of his career and how when his friends were drawn to sketching transformers, he was recreating lo...
Dec 20, 2018•55 min
In this episode, we spoke with Birgit Palma Illustrator & Lettering Artist based in Barcelona. Today, Birgit is known for her Illustration but during her studies, she learned a little bit of everything including illustration, graphic design, 3D and sound design. Her work lands at the sweet spot between modern avant-garde and illustration. This episode was recorded in Los Angeles as part of our Adobe Max series. We spoke about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and what impact it might...
Dec 14, 2018•45 min
EP92 with Adam J Kurtz on We're Going to Die In this episode, we spoke with Adam J Kurtz a designer, artists, author and more from Brooklyn. He is best known for the honesty and humour in his work and his books. True to his online presence, Adam was open, honest, funny and personal when we caught up for a sneaky chat in a press room at Adobe MAX. We spoke about Adam’s history moving to New York, that time he built a fan site for The Veronica’s, the internet, design, depression, taking ourselves ...
Dec 10, 2018•30 min
EP91 with Lauren Hom on Juice and Squeeze In this episode, we spoke with Lauren Hom a designer and letterer based in Detroit, schooled in New York, and raised in Los Angeles. Lauren is well known for her bright colour palettes, playful letterforms, and quirky copywriting. Lauren is highly intelligent, funny, passionate about what she does and has an infectious laugh that made this episode incredibly fun. We spoke about her original plans to be a Creative Director and studied at The School of Vis...
Nov 19, 2018•52 min
In this episode, we spoke with Mark Conlan in Los Angeles as part of our Adobe MAX series. Although it was the last episode we recorded, we still have a lot more to publish! Mark is a multi disciplined Illustrator from Dublin working and living in Melbourne Australia, Marks work is a combination of emotion, fantastic worlds, playful characters and a beautiful colour palate. Mark creates conceptual based illustration for products, editorial, publishing, advertising campaigns and one-off commissio...
Nov 13, 2018•46 min
In this episode, we spoke with Sally Spratt in Los Angeles as part of our Adobe MAX series. Sally is an illustrator with graphic design roots who found a following through a passion project entitled The Lust List where she drew images of products she lusted after but couldn’t afford. As well as being represented by Roxy Jacenko at The Ministry of Talent, Sally’s work for clients is incredibly diverse but often focused on speed and getting ideas down quickly, making her perfect for conceptual wor...
Nov 02, 2018•42 min
In this episode, we spoke with Alicia Souza in Los Angeles as part of our Adobe MAX series. Alicia is a Freelance Illustrator and Artist working and living in Bangalore India. Her career is a mixture of commercial illustration and running her online store, which has a constantly changing inventory of brands and products. We spoke about life as a freelancer, her life travels from Abu Dhabi to Bangalore via RMIT Melbourne, her process starting with pen and paper, getting up early to finish client ...
Oct 29, 2018•46 min
In this episode, we catch up with just each other for the first time in a long while. This episode is the prelude to our #AdobeMAX series as an #AdobePartner When this episode is released, we'll be in LA hustling to get as much audio content captured during the enormous design event in Los Angeles. Follow us on Instagram for updates during the trip! https://instagram.com/ausdesignradio Our episodes are on track and keep coming thanks to our friends at Streamtime – streamtime.net Our trip is in p...
Oct 16, 2018•43 min
EP86 with Jeremy Lord on Deliberate Practice In this episode, we spoke with Jeremy Lord, Illustrator, Designer and Teacher from Sydney. Jeremy is a long time friend of the show and an amazing Illustrator, but he’s also a designer working with studios and agencies on projects from branding to packaging to straight-up graphic design. We spoke about deliberate practice if you really want to improve a skill, skateboarding duck foot, drawing dragon ball z, Instagram, workload and workflow. Streamtime...
Sep 21, 2018•56 min
EP85 with Prue Jones on gender, sex robots and simulations This session finds us still at the Adobe Symposium 2018, where we ‘finally’ got the chance to sit down with Prue Jones. She has been on our list since the first episode but for whatever reason we’d never been able to make it work. Well, the wait only heightened our anticipation and Prue did not disappoint. Design and Creative Director of Fjord, Prue has over 30 years of experience in the Creative Industries. Starting in advertising she m...
Sep 10, 2018•51 min
Episode 84 with James de Vries on Sea Change and See Change In this episode we spoke with James de Vries, Principal Director of Strategy at Second Road. James has recently returned to Australia after six years working as Creative Director at Harvard Business Review, where his role centred around raising the voice of design and building the value and effectiveness of design in the company. We spoke about the contrast between high school and design school, learning that design could be a lightning...
Sep 07, 2018•58 min
EP83 with James Victore on Feck Perfuction In this episode, we had the chance to grab an hour with James Victore backstage at the Adobe Symposium 2018 — and what an hour it was. James is a designer, artist, educator and author but also an incredibly proud Father. Here we talk about dropping out of art college and going back to teach (at the same school). We look at teaching college students compared to adult professionals and how his teaching/client work has recently changed balance, to incorpor...
Sep 03, 2018•53 min
EP82 with Estella Tse on Immersive Art In this episode, we spoke with Estella Tse backstage at Adobe Symposium 2018 in Sydney. Estella is a Virtual Reality painter and designer with a background in Illustration hailing from Oakland California. We spoke about how virtual reality affects your mind and infiltrates Estella’s dreams, how she became an Artist in Residence with Google's Tilt Brush, how swimming and yoga makes her a better VR artist and exploring how the great art masters may have used ...
Aug 31, 2018•58 min
In this special episode, we went to Perth with our friend Frankie Ratford and held a panel with local legendary designers Becky Chilcott, Mark Braddock and Kylie Timpani. We spoke about work-life balance or lack thereof, burnout, how we deal with moving forward in our work, education, internships and industry and community issues. This is a recording from a live event so the audio quality isn't perfect, but we believe the content from the panel was excellent and worth sharing. Big thanks to our ...
Aug 24, 2018•1 hr 10 min
For this episode, we are at The Design Conference in Brisbane, where we sat down with power-duo Meg Donohoe and Mitch Paone to talk about their New York studio, DIA. Meg and Mitch are incredibly organised and we look at how they manage their schedules so they have time for life/work and what it takes to run a successful consultancy and marriage at the same time. We also look at their kinetic identity systems, how the concept originated and how their process has needed to change to incorporate a ...
Aug 20, 2018•50 min
In this episode, we spoke with Jack Mussett, Director at Motherbird. Jack has been on our infamous industry wish list since the beginning of the podcast so it was great to finally get a chance to speak with him in his hometown of Melbourne. We spoke about work-life balance, overdelivering on projects, working with friends, side projects, and diversity. We got philosophical with talk about critical thinking and the meandering brain. We dove into a few projects including The World Cancer Congress ...
Jul 24, 2018•1 hr 2 min
This episode finds us still at the Brisbane Design Conference, finding some time to sit down with our friend, George Rose. George is a multidisciplinary artist, well known for doing incredibly large walls, blending colours, gradients and textures through hand-rendered type forms. An incredibly honest and free spirit, we got into all things about having a career as a mural artist, how she makes her money and life on the road. George has a background as a designer before moving over to the street ...
Jul 01, 2018•53 min
EP77 with Bráulio on Design and Reinvention Bráulio Amado is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator from Portugal, currently living in New York City. He worked as a Designer at Pentagram NYC. Then joined Bloomberg Businessweek as an Art Director. Moved to Wieden+Kennedy. Now he works for himself. We spoke about his journey from Portugal to Pentagram NYC, to Bloomberg Business Week and following Richard Turley from there Wieden kennedy. We spoke about some of his projects like working with Frank Ocea...
Jun 17, 2018•54 min
This was recorded during our time at The Design Conference in Brisbane where we managed to get Kris Sowersby to sit in the most ridiculous and ostentatious purple chair and ask him a few questions. We cover everything from why he first fell in love with type, to why he remains independent and where the name Klim came from. Josie even gets to bully him into making round periods for Founders Grotesk. What she calls Foundies with Roundies. Klim klim.co.nz twitter.com/klimtypefoundry instagram.com/k...
Jun 01, 2018•52 min
In this ADR special, Matt Leach moderated a panel discussing the gig-economy and how it affects the design industry. It’s a bit of a change of pace in terms of episodes but we thought there were some good discussions happening you might like to hear. Panellists Andy Wright – Streamtime twitter.com/adwrighty Vanessa Ward – Founder of Nomadism nomadism.co Anita McArthur – CD of SeeSaw seesawstudio.com.au Jim Antonopoulos – TANK twitter.com/jimantonopoulos Moderated by Matt Leach instagram.com/matt...
May 16, 2018•50 min
Growing up in a house designed by Phillip Cox, with Marimekko curtains and with a reconditioned printing press in her house, it’s not surprising that Cat eventually found her way into the design world, but the beginning of her career started her off on a different journey. From a Journalist at channel 7 to public affairs roles with Sydney Water and government organisations she eventually, perhaps inevitably made her way to Emery Vincent where she has spent 15 years and what is now called Frost C...
May 04, 2018•1 hr
Still in Tassie, still missing Flyn, Andy and Matt spoke with Vanessa Ward, Founder of Nomadism, about her fascinating life. Now living in Hobart, Vanessa has had a life of travel, study and exploration. A respected strategist, product designer and thinker, Vanessa has worked for some of the most exciting design firms in the World, such as BMD (Bruce MayDesign) and FuseProject before setting up Nomadism in 2016 (with Sandy Oh and Dr Stella Humphries). This episode charts a biographical path, fro...
Apr 27, 2018•55 min
This time 'round, we spoke with Andrew Johnstone, Founder of Design is Kinky and Creative Director of Foundry. Flyn had been called away due to a project he was working on so we called in previous guest, Andy Wright to co-host. Andrew, now living in Launceston, has had a wild and varied career, but one, upon reflection, that could be categorised by following his gut. This ‘gut-feeling’ has led him to establish some of Australia’s most influential events, communities and magazines where he’s soug...
Apr 20, 2018•56 min
