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In today’s episode, I sit down and chat with my friend and former client, Stu Smith. A fantastic designer and creative entrepreneur, working at Trello and based out of Austin, Texas with his wife (YellowBess), kids, and their dogs.

During our interview we talk about a range of different topics from Stu’s college experience, us working together while he was at Able Lending and now his side hustles he’s been up to with his wife.

Sit back and enjoy my chat with Stu.

Nuggets of Wisdom:

1. You Don't Have to Go to Design School to Become a Designer.

One common misconception is that if you go to college and want to become a designer (or go into any other creative profession) you have to get your degree in design. This is completely false. If there were a possibility to go back and redo college, I would have changed my path and gone for marketing or business (like Stu) instead.

2. Take Risks in Your Career.

Especially if you're early in your career, take a risk. Take that job across the country or even in another country. Go out on the limb and start your own side hustle. You don't want to sit there, 10 years later full of regrets.

3. Sometimes You Have to Know When to Walk Away.

Just like how Stu made the realization that he should close the doors on Sputnik, sometimes you have to know when its time to walk away and move on to the "next thing." We all have or will have those moments in careers and lives. I had that moment with my last job where I decided that I was going to leave and strike out on my own, but before I could make that move, it was made for me. Make that leap on your own terms, not someone else's.

4. Small Opportunities Can Lead to Bigger Ones Down the Road.

You never know when a smaller opportunity may lead to a major one. Just like with Stu's work for the apartment complex, it started off with flyers and led to a $30,000 project. When you're starting out, take on those smaller projects and treat them like they're big dollar projects and clients.

Show Notes

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Follow Stu Smith: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Passenger Labs

Special Thanks to the Design Break Editor: Loreanne Varon

Podcast Music by: Royalty Free Rock via Pond5

Today I’m talking with dimensional typographer, Danielle Evans. We chat about carving Emu eggs, how she’s learned to trust her gut when red flags start to pop up with clients, being a specialized generalist, how she keeps her work fresh and innovative in the face of growing competition, defending her work when people start to copy her and encroach on her projects, plus a whole lot more.

You can find out more about Danielle on Twitter at @marmaladebleue and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with her. I hope you liked this episode of Feasting on Design, let me know what you think and if you like it leave me a review over on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit feastingondesign.com to catch up on the archives of the Creative South Podcast, get some cool swag like t-shirts and stickers that are on sale right now for 50% off with free shipping on orders over $25 when you use the code FREESHIPPING, all one word, plus you can keep up with the podcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @FeastOnDesign, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Mentioned in the Show

- The Case for Copying: Ideas to Beg, Borrow and Steal

- The Case for Copying, Part 2: Say My Name

- Jack Juris

Find out more about Danielle Evans

- marmaladebleue.com

- Instagram

- Dribbble

- LinkedIn

- Pinterest

- Medium

Welcome to our second AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode!

These AMA episodes are a bit unique in that they focus on answering questions that I’ve received over the last couple of years via social media, email and/or in person from all of my wonderful followers.

Now, the question came in from Instagram. The question is: Is it possible to master all areas of art and design? If so, is it possible to do it in college?

Today I’m talking with Tom Ross, founder of Design Cuts, one of the hosts of the Honest Designer podcast and the host of the Honest Entrepreneur podcast. We chat about building your personal brand, how designers can market themselves in a non-sleazy way, the importance of empathy with your clients, plus a whole lot more.

You can find out more about Tom on Twitter at @tomrossmedia and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with him. I hope you liked this episode of Feasting on Design, let me know what you think and if you like it leave me a review over on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit feastingondesign.com to catch up on the archives of the Creative South Podcast, get some cool swag like t-shirts and stickers that are on sale right now for 50% off with free shipping on orders over $25 when you use the code FreeShipping, all one word, plus you can keep up with the podcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @FeastOnDesign, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Find out more about Tom Ross

• Design Cuts
• TomRoss.co
• Instagram
• Honest Designers Podcast
• Honest Entrepreneur Podcast
• YouTube

The Guest

Mary Kate McDevitt is a designer, illustrator, and lettering artist from Philadelphia. Her unique and engaging style embraces the hand-made. Her work has been featured in various print and online publications. Clients include Smuckers, Sesame Street, Nike, AT&T, Target, Nintendo, Chronical Books, and way more. She has published multiple books on illustration and lettering and she teaches workshops online and in person. Go check out her work at marykatemcdevitt.com.

The Question

How does where you are, affect what you make?

The Notes

Our conversation is all about location. The context in which Mary Kate finds herself, and how living in different cities has impacted her career and work. We explore geographical locations and locations within her neighborhood and even within her studio space.

We discuss remote working, the value of big and small cities, coffee shops, large work tables, tin cars and talking skeletons.

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Links

• Mary Kate McDevitt’s website: https://www.marykatemcdevitt.com/
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Today I’m talking with Designer Alex Ponce, who has worked for brands like Stone Brewing and Taco Bell. We chat about creating branding for craft and microbreweries, designing at scale for limited release products for Taco bell, how he thinks about concepting, differentiating and creating story for brands that operate in the same market and demographic space, plus a whole lot more. One last thing before you get to the episode, Alex and I for got to talk about it, but go check out his new project Hopfeed, which has some cool beer related merchandise and helps beer lover connect to share beers from around the country. You can find out more about it at TheHopfeed.com.

You can find out more about Alex on Twitter at @apcreative_ and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with them. Visit feastingondesign.com to catch up on the archives of the Creative South Podcast, get some cool swag like t-shirts and stickers that are on sale right now for 50% off with free shipping on orders over $25 when you use the code FreeShipping, all one word, plus you can keep up with the podcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @FeastOnDesign, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Find out more about Alex Ponce

www.ap-creative.com
Dribbble
Instagram

This is the first of a new sub-series for the Design Break podcast where I go through and answer a series of old questions I've been asked over social media. This first episode (008 of the main podcast) answers the question "What do you do if you get discouraged or frustrated with your work?"

In this episode of the Design Break podcast, I discuss how being a Jack-of-All-Trades is a positive attribute to your creative career and not a detriment to your growth.

When it comes to finding a job or doing freelance work, having a range of different skills allows you to diversify both the work you do as well as your bank account. The more skills you know, the more things you can do, the more of an impact you can make in the creative world.

Today I’m talking with Anthony “Biggie” Bencomo of Deli Fresh Threads, a sandwich-centric apparel line based out of Orlando, FL. We chat about how he turned his obsession with sandwiches into a business, using his marketing know how to build a community and hold monthly Sandwich Eat Ups, the importance of building relationships, and what he looks for in the designers he works with, plus a whole lot more. I hope you like this episode of Feasting on Design, let me know what you think and if you like it leave me a review over on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

You can find out more about Deli Fresh Threads on Twitter @DeliFreshThrds without the E and A in Threads, and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with him. Visit feastingondesign.com to catch up on the archives of the Creative South Podcast, get some cool swag like t-shirts and stickers that are on sale right now for 50% off with free shipping on orders over $25 when you use the code FreeShipping, all one word, plus you can keep up with the podcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @FeastOnDesign, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Find out more about Deli Fresh Threads

• delifreshthreads.com
• Facebook
• Instagram

In this episode I share with you the importance of having your own website and how it can benefit you in finding a job, finding freelance work and other great benefits.

We are in the age of Social Networking and so many people have fallen victim to the belief that you don’t need a website or a portfolio. This belief is a fallacy. You can always showcase your work on Instagram, Dribbble, etc. but you can’t always go into specific detail or if for some reason tomorrow those avenues disappeared, where would you be?

The straight forward thing here is that you should always have a website to back up what you say you can do in your creative field.

If you'd like to see more of the show notes head on over to the Design Break website for more on this episode!

www.designbreakpodcast.com

Welcome to the first episode of Feasting on Design! So if you’re new here, I’m your host Jason Frostholm. I’m a designer and creative director with nearly 20 years of experience and I used to host a podcast call the Creative South Podcast, which wrapped up at the end of last year. When that podcast was coming to an end I knew I wanted to keep podcasting and talking to designers, illustrators and other creatives, but I also wanted to explore my other passion food. so occasionally we’ll be talking with chefs, brewers, bartenders, and restaurateurs about what it takes to design your business in the food and beverage industry from the ground up. So you might be wondering “if they is the first episode for Feasting on Design why is it number 156 on my podcast player,” well the simplest answer is I wanted to make it easy for fans of the Creative South Podcast to find the show and not have to subscribe to a new podcast feed, and I want people to be able to go back and listen to old episodes for the Creative South podcast since we had a ton of really great guests on there. I hope you like Feasting on Design, let me know what you think and if you like it leave me a review over on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

To kick off the first episode of Feasting on Design, I’m bringing my podcast life full circle and talking with Creative South co-founder and head of design at Aflac, Mike Jones. We sit down and chat about what Creative South has in store for 2019, designing for food packaging, and there is a lot of talk about BBQ. So sit back and break some bread with us on this episode of Feasting On Design.

You can find out more about Mike on Twitter @Bucket826 and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with him. Visit feastingondesign.com to catch up on the archives of the Creative South Podcast, get some cool swag like t-shirts and stickers that are on sale right now for 50% off with free shipping on orders over $25 when you use the code FREESHIPPING, all one word, plus you can keep up with the podcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @FeastOnDesign, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Find out more about Mike Jones

• servestudios.com
• hugnecks.com
• Dribbble
• Instagram

Find out more about Creative South

• creativesouth.com
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

Excited for the second episode of our Interview series, this time with one of the most amazing hand lettering artists, Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn!

In our interview we sit down and talk about not only her journey into the creative world but so many other things including how she found her first agent, what it was like working with an agent and much much more.

To learn more about this episode head on over to https://www.designbreakpodcast.com/episodes/005.

Passion project aficionado and hand lettering artist, Lauren Hom, joins us on Overtime to chat about the success she's found by doing the work she loves. We discuss a few of her popular projects including Flour Crowns, Will Letter for Lunch, and Daily Dishonestly.

She also shares some sage advice on freelancing and how she quit her advertising art director gig to work for herself. It doesn't have to be a big jump—there are steps you can take to move the mountains closer and make it more of a hop.

Lauren urges creatives to share work that's not perfect. Quality over quantity still reigns true, but quantity does have some validity in the current landscape of how we share things on social media.

This episode is brought to you by .ME. Make it easy for your clients to recognize your awesomeness by featuring your best work in one place—a place you own and control. Start building your online home with .ME, the most personal Internet domain.

Links Mentioned in Overtime

• Lauren Hom
• Lauren on Dribbble
• Lauren on Instagram
• Lauren on Twitter
• Flour Crowns
• You Don't Need Much to Make Magic (behind the scenes photo of the Flour Crowns project)
• Will Letter for Lunch
• No Photos Please
• Ex Boyfriend Tears
• 26 letters 26,000 miles
• Justin Gignac
• Gail Anderson
• Daily Dishonesty
• Daily Dishonesty book

Full transcript available on dribbble.com/overtime.

I’m talking with Ed Roberts today. Ed is a designer and creative strategist. He’s written about InHouse design for How magazine, the HOW design blog, and The Creative Group, spoken at AIGA Lead Con, and served on the boards for InSource and IHAF. We chat about how as a member of an in-house team you can align the way you work with the values of your company without being an order taker, the importance of the in-house design team to be a strategic partner to a company’s leadership to help with innovation, and ways you can help build that partnership. and more.

I want to take a moment since this will be the last episode of the Creative South Podcast, before I switch over to Feasting On Design in the New Year, to thank everyone who has supported the show. Thank you to all of my guests for taking the time to sit down with me and talk about yourselves and you work, you’ve opened yourself up to a stranger and been vulnerable and generous. I’m thankful for every conversation I’ve had and getting to know all of my guests a little better, and in many cases become friends with the people on the other side of the microphone. Thank you for making my job so much easier by doing the heavy lifting. Thank you Mike Jones for letting me ride on the Creative South coattails for the past three years and knowing when it was time to push me out of the nest. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed , listened, and donated to the show. If you hadn’t tuned in and kept coming back for more I wouldn’t be here today. I hope you will stick with me when I make the switch to Feasting On Design. Thank you to all of my sponsors, especially Nadia at Jakprints for the continued support and seeing value in sponsoring podcasts, and finally, thank you to my wife Tina and my sons, Andy and Will. You’ve made sacrifices on nights and weekends for the past three years so I could follow this passion project. I love you and owe you so much more thank I can ever repay.

To everyone out there this isn’t goodbye. I’ll be back soon with Feasting on Design bringing you even more great designers and creators, and taking a look at creativity from brewers, distillers, chefs, restaurateurs, bartenders and more. I hope you’ll stick with me and that I’ll see you all soon.

You can find out more about Ed on Twitter @InHouseObs and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with him. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @FeastOnDesign, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Thank you to JakPrints for sponsoring this episode.

Find out more about Ed Roberts

• Behance
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

tl;dr — Creative South Podcast is changing it’s name to Feasting on Design and coming back with new episodes early next year.

I want to thank all of you who have listened to and supported the Creative South Podcast over the last 3 years. A few people know this already and I will be announcing it publicly tomorrow, but next week will be the last episode of the Creative South Podcast. I’ll be taking a break and coming back Jan/Feb with Feasting on Design. Overall the podcasts will be similar, the same basic format of an interview show, but I am hoping to talk to chefs, restaurateurs, bartenders, etc. as well as designers. I’m still figuring out the day to day of the show and I’m sure it will evolve over time, but for now, I plan on putting out episodes every 2 weeks. If you already subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher you won’t need to resubscribe, I’m keeping the same feed.

Mike Jones and I talked back in late August/early September and he told me he was trying to take CS back to its roots. Part of getting back to the roots was letting go of the podcast. Don’t worry, I’m still on staff with CS and there’s no bad blood between Mike and me.

I’ve been lucky enough to ride on the coattails of the Creative South name for the past 3 years, and for that, I’ll be forever grateful to Mike for getting on board with my crazy idea to do a podcast talking to past CS speakers. While it’s scary going it on my own, in reality, I’ve been doing that with the podcast from the beginning. I’ve been a one-man show booking guests, lining up sponsors, hosting the show, editing and producing episodes, all of the social media stuff etc. has always been just me.

Hopefully, this change will allow me to do something that I’ve struggled with in the past because the podcast was associated with the Creative South name—being invited to other conferences. Hint, Hint Matt Dawson, bring me to Crop! I can do a podcast, moderate a panel, and give a talk all for one low price! But that’s not all, if you act today I’ll throw in free hugs!

Again thank you all for the support over the past few years, and hopefully for continued support with Feasting on Design.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Artist, Illustrator, and Designer Lenworth McIntosh, better know as Joonbug. We chat about struggling to fit in as a kid after moving from Jamaica to the United States, how his clothing company Fresh Kaufee lead to him being able to work full time as an illustrator, developing his style through the themes of his work, and more.

You can find out more about Joonbug on his website bugs87.com and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with her. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter and Facebook @CreativeSoPod, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Thank you to JakPrints for sponsoring this episode.

Find out more about Joonbug:

• Dribbble
• Instagram
• Facebook

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Chicago-based UX Designer Sharlene King. We chat about her struggles after she came out as gay and not being supported by her family, the challenges she faced in school from learning disabilities and dropping out of high school, being on the autism spectrum and how it’s become and asset in her work, and more.

You can find out more about Sharlene on Twitter @typodactyl and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with her. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter and Facebook @CreativeSoPod, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Thank you to JakPrints for sponsoring this episode.

Find out more about Sharlene King:

• tinytank.net
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

On Overtime, illustrator and letterer Mary Kate McDevitt shares her path to becoming a freelance artist. After attending Tyler School of Art and moving to Portland, Mary Kate found her voice by setting goals, authoring books, and teaching classes.

Mary Kate shares a behind-the-scenes look at the tools and process she uses to create her beautiful, detailed pieces. She also shares how teaching has helped her refine her process and how she throws that process away and finds freedom when doing personal work. Blasting a little classical music helps too.

This episode is brought to you by Wix. Push the limits of design and start creating beautiful, impactful websites that are uniquely yours at wix.com/dribbble.

• Mary Kate McDevitt
• Mary Kate on Dribbble
• Mary Kate on Instagram
• Mary Kate on Twitter
• Celebrate Making for We Make
• Cintiq
• LightPad
• Tyler School of Art
• Mini Goals Notepad
• Carpe Diem Journal
• Hand-Lettering Ledger
• Every Day Is Epic
• Mary Kate's books
• Mary Kate's Skillshare Courses
• For the Birds Illustration
• For the Birds Instagram Story
• Kyle Brush
• True Grit Texture Supply
• Creative Market
• Okay Fine
• Melissa McFeeters
• Ladies, Wine & Design
• Pop-up Letter Show
• 100 days of People and Pets
• Norma and Nigel have really done it this time

Read the full transcript on dribbble.com/overtime.

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Deputy Art Director at AARP, Dian Holton. We chat about how moving around as a kid while her dad was in the military allowed her to be open minded and adaptable as an adult, getting into graphic design after planning on going to college for fashion design & becoming interested in news and publication design while in school, how AARP adjusts to an ever changing market and evolving psychographics, getting involved with AIGA an how it’s helped shape her career, and more.

You can find out more about Dian on Twitter @dianholton and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with her. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter and Facebook @CreativeSoPod, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Thank you to JakPrints for sponsoring this episode.

Find out more about Dian Holton:

• https://dianholton.com/
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

This week on the Creative South Podcast, I’m talking with Boston University Athletics Creative Marketing Specialist, Wande Salako. We chat about how she got into design after a BS in Psychology, and masters of Science in College Student Personnel Administration and Sports Business, working as the lone designer for Boston University Athletics, how she deals with issues that arise from being a black woman in the sports design world, and more.

You can find out more about Wande on Twitter @WandeOyin and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with her. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter and Facebook @CreativeSoPod, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Thank you to JakPrints for sponsoring this episode.

Find out more about Wande Salako:

• Instagram
• Behance
• LinkedIn