Welcome to Soof and Flo's third series, centred around the tarot. The idea? Choose a card from the major arcana each episode, and record our discussion as we each design our own version of that card. We are both avid tarot fans, not to mention keen illustrators and designers, so this felt like the perfect meeting point of those passions. This week, we are discussing the first card in the Major Arcana, The Fool. The starting point of the journey, the leaping-off point, recklessness and confidence...
Apr 06, 2021•56 min•Season 3Ep. 3
We're back! After a long pandemic winter, we have decided to theme our third series around the tarot. The idea? Choose a card from the major arcana each episode, and record our discussion as we each design our own version of that card. We are both avid tarot fans, not to mention keen illustrators and designers, so this felt like the perfect meeting point of those passions. The tarot is a pack of playing cards used from the 15th Century, but popularised around the turn of the century by the publi...
Mar 31, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 2
We're back! After a long pandemic winter, we have decided to theme our third series around the tarot. The idea? Choose a card from the major arcana each episode, and record our discussion as we each design our own version of that card. We are both avid tarot fans, not to mention keen illustrators and designers, so this felt like the perfect meeting point of those passions. The tarot is a pack of playing cards used from the 15th Century, but popularised around the turn of the century by the publi...
Mar 18, 2021•44 min•Season 3Ep. 1
This episode, we're digging into media! Graphic design has a lot of space for multi-disciplinary practices, and we love experimenting with different media and teaching ourselves new skills. Something old: we both choose a medium that we have revisited in lockdown. Something new: during quarantine, what new skill are we loving digging into? Something borrowed: we love working in cultural eco-systems, and sharing media and skills is an important part of that. Something blue: we each choose an obje...
Jun 26, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This episode we are delving into the world of populist design: think Live Laugh Love, think Notes to Strangers, think Keep Calm and Carry On, think clapping for the NHS whilst voting Tory. We cover our definition of populist design and how it relates to the political term “populism”, and how we can borrow terms from art theory such as kitsch to deepen our understanding of populist design. A contextual discussion shows us that populist design has emerged at a specific meeting point of social medi...
Apr 25, 2020•47 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Welcome to the The Soof and Flo Show, a podcast which unpacks a new theme each season with 2020 vision, complete with trivia, intersectional critique and candid discussions. This season, we’re "designing in-house": we’re exploring the design industry, movements and ways of working. From episodes on Memphis to our own design processes join Soof and Flo as they design in isolation during an age of lock-down. This episode, we delve into design processes: why they’re important to have, how they diff...
Apr 14, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to the The Soof and Flo Show, a podcast which unpacks a new theme each season with 2020 vision, complete with trivia, intersectional critique and candid discussions. This season, we’re "designing in-house": we’re exploring the design industry, movements and ways of working. From episodes on Memphis to our own design processes join Soof and Flo as they design in isolation during an age of lock-down. This week we’re looking at the design studio Memphis Group, which inspired the 80s pop pat...
Apr 07, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 1
For our fourth episode, we’re digging into the masculinities in the TARDIS through the lens of discussing our favourite and least favourite Doctors. We kick off with yet another rigged Buzzfeed quiz about which Doctor we are. We both got Matt Smith despite choosing very different answers. An exploration of our favourite Doctors! The BBC covered up Christopher Eccleston’s reasons for leaving (toxicity) by claiming he didn’t want to be typecast. Did we fancy David Tennant, or did we want to be him...
Feb 23, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 4
For our third episode, we’re digging into the politics of monsters and the themes of sacrifice in Doctor Who through the lens of discussing specific episodes. We discuss the Ood as spiritual monsters, selective empathy and fatphobia. The ood as a Sufi sect The episode Father’s Day as a moralistic conundrum and an exploration of the paradox of time travel. If you could go back in time and stop personal trauma from happening, would you? Death as a running theme of Doctor Who, and avoidance of deat...
Feb 16, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 3
For our second episode, we’re digging into the feminist and queer politics of Doctor Who by exploring the companions: the best, the worst, the blandest, the weirdest. We discuss misogyny in Doctor Who through the lens of the portrayals of the (usually female) companions, gender dynamics in the TARDIS, and the exploration of body manipulation and transness through Cassandra, masculinities through Micky, and queerness through Captain Jack. We delve straight in and discuss our favourite companions....
Feb 09, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of the Soof and Flo Show! For our first episode, we’re digging into the 2005 revival of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, covering everything from the Doctor’s saviour complex to the campness of Doctor Who to our own escapist relationship with the show. Note: Florence speaks so fast. Feel free to play the episode on a slower speed. We were both nerds as young teens and got very into the first series of the reboot in 2005 Florence used to do a po...
Feb 02, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
