Matthew Carlson

Matthew Carlson—Design Director at Adobe Creative Cloud—talks to Giuseppe Castellano about his role at Adobe, and how they responded to COVID-19; why Adobe, Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of Big Tech are so reliant on illustration; what the similarities and differences are between digital and traditional methods of creating art; and more.

To learn more about Matthew, visit behance.net/dreamjar.

They discuss Matthew’s successful Kickstarter campaign for a role-playing tabletop game, called WanderSquares. Learn more about the game by visiting, wandersquares.com

Artists mentioned in this episode include: Matt Stevens, Owen Davey, the other Matthew Carlson, and Iris Compiet

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