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Inspiration is on tap as Teresa Au speaks to graphic designer, entrepreneur, and author Aaron Draplin. Known as much for his warm and direct personality as for his signature thick lines design style and ample use of Pantone Orange 21, Aaron is beloved by designers everywhere. Aaron shares lessons gleaned from his midwestern upbringing, nearly 20 years in business on his own, and creating his Field Notes and DDC branded merchandise.

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What you’ll hear in this episode:

• What Aaron wishes he knew when he went out on his own
• Be professional on your way out of a role or project
• Why you should take every job that comes your way
• Lessons learned from challenging jobs and people
• How to control your own time
• The value of keeping your word
• What you can learn from your clients that can help you in your own business
• Use merchandise to make your business look as big–or as small–as you wish
• How Aaron started the Field Notes brand
• When it’s time to bring in a team
• Is passive income actually passive?
• Taking on big jobs allows Aaron to do little things to help his friend and family
• Corporate clients don’t have to mean endless meetings and emails
• A big client can also be a passion job
• Give clients what they need, not necessarily what they think they want
• Which design students make the best audiences
• What Aaron learned from his Dad
• The importance of appreciating the people who help you get your work done
• Aaron’s dream gig
• Aaron’s list of words for 2024

Aaron Draplin is founder of the Draplin Design Co. a shop specializing in Print, Identity and Illustration.  He co-created Field Notes brand with Jim Coudal, and their memo books are sold the world over. He is the author of eight Skillshare classes, and the book Pretty Much Everything . His DDC Merch line is a cult favorite, featuring 300+ products. You’ll find Aaron in his backyard studio in Portland, Oregon, or crossing the US in his orange van, putting on “speaking fiascos” for audiences ranging from Adobe MAX to vocational school students.

Teresa Au (@tautastic) is an executive for community engagement and driving customer empathy at Adobe. 

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Highlights from the conversation

• We have to be doing work that is going to change the world around us
• The boundaries of branding are absolutely limitless. What's not limitless are designers
• As designers, we cannot continue to think about the planet as a completely replenishable resource
• We have the opportunity to show what we support through what we buy
• At the end of the day, maybe you just are selling chocolate. You don't have to make it be about some larger societal issue
• If we're saying that the design industry needs to change, we have to start making those moves ourselves

More about Jessie McGuire

Jessie McGuire is the Managing Director at brand design studio ThoughtMatter. She leads a diverse team in creating daring designs and identities for a wide range of clients, from global brands to local communities, art museums and foundations, and institutions and non-profits.

Her work spans projects for clients like Kimberly-Clark, P&G, and Colgate Palmolive. Jessie has played a role in raising awareness for socially progressive causes such as March for Our Lives, Girls Write Now and The Joyful Heart Foundation, and supports community-minded efforts for The New-York Historical Society, Downtown Staten Island, and The Center for Arts Education

Find Jessie here: LinkedIn | Instagram

Show Notes

Companies and organisations:

• ThoughtMatter
• Robinhood
• Reddit
• SVA – School of Visual Arts

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Summer is here, and we're closing out the month with a conversation with designer and design educator Sabrina Hall. As a senior product design manager at Justworks, Sabrina oversees a creative team dedicated to helping improve the payroll, benefits, and other human resources tasks for a number of businesses.

We started off with Sabrina sharing starting at a new company during a pandemic, as well as some of the intricacies of her role (such as the overlap with strategy). She also talked about growing up in New York City, attending SVA, and her shift from editorial and print design into product. We also discussed teaching, as well as the importance of writing as a designer, and spoke on how she views success at this stage in her career. Thank you Sabrina for helping to usher in the next generation of designers!

Links

• Sabrina Hall's Website
• Sabrina Hall on Twitter

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Terrence Masson has had an incredible career. He's worked on 20+ feature films as well as many “special venue" interactive, broadcast commercials and video game projects. Some highlights include three Star Wars movies, getting SouthPark started and the world's largest interactive digital Etch-A-Sketch. Terrence is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Visual Effects Society and has been active in SIGGRAPH since 1988, including as the 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair, the 2010 Conference Chair, and Outstanding Service Awards Chair.

Terrence's enthusiasm for the craft is infectious. Today he works at Chair of the MFA program in Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.

If you live in the United States and have read the funny pages any time within the past 30 years, then you already know about the work from this week's guest. Ray Billingsley is the creator of Curtis, the daily comic that follows the life and times of a precocious 11-year-old Black boy, his family, and his classmates. I'm so glad to have the opportunity to share this conversation with a cartoon legend.

Ray gave an introduction to the Curtis comic universe, and talked about growing up in North Carolina and New York as a youth, attending SVA and working for Disney, and how he got his first national comic before beginning work on Curtis. Ray also shared his thoughts on new Black comic artists, discussed the value of peer mentorship, and spoke about what's in the future for him and the strip. Ray's diligence and steadfast commitment to his body of work is something every creative should take to heart, and I hope his story inspires you to pick up the baton and keep running that race!

Links

• Curtis (comic strip)
• Ray Billingsley's Website
• Ray Billingsley on Instagram

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Jonah and Renessa catch up about life, work, and the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. BLACK LIVES MATTER. DEFUND THE POLICE. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE. SPEAK UP AND VOTE.

Our guest today is Marcos Chin, an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared as surface and wall designs, on book and CD covers, advertisements, fashion catalogs, and magazines. He has worked with clients such as MTA Arts for Transit, Neiman Marcus, Fiat, Budweiser, Time, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times. Marcos has given lectures and workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad, and currently lives in New York where he teaches Illustration at the School of Visual Arts. We heard about his work during the pandemic, his creative heroes and passion for writing fan letters, his Canadian and African roots, participating in the #BlackLivesMatter movement and what Pride meant for him this year, how he started getting big clients and being published, his experience with artist agents, his personal artwork, sharing his process and queerness on social media, teaching at SVA, and (bonus) his first time seeing a vagina!

Stay tuned after the interview for a new installment of Qmmunity Updates, where we highlight queer companies and creators! If you would like to submit yourself for an upcoming episode, send Jonah an email at info@thequeercreative.com with the subject line “Qmmunity Updates” and he’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Show links:

http://www.marcoschin.com

https://www.instagram.com/marcoschinart/

https://twitter.com/marcoschinart

https://www.facebook.com/marcoschin

What Does Pride Mean Now? article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/arts/author-gay-pride-2020.html

Qmmunity Updates links:

hillsandholler.com / Insta: @hillsandholler

evanjpeterson.com / Twitter: @evanjpeterson / Insta: @evan.j.peterson

gayprideapparel.com / Insta: @gayprideapparel / Twitter: @GayPrideApp

It’s our 1-year anniversary, Queer Creatives! This is our Season 2 finale, and we’ll be back in July. Don’t miss Jonah’s tangent about his pandemic small business woes and harassing Citibank employees. Renessa reports on Prince’s tribute special and some global 2020 Pride event resources. 

Our guest this week is Debbie Millman! She was one of the first in the game of the podcast phenomenon we know today, and one of the most influential designers of our generation. An author, educator, and businesswoman, Millman launched the hugely successful podcast Design Matters in 2005, and has interviewed 100’s of influential creatives and leaders. She’s authored six books, is the President Emeritus of the American Insitute of Graphic Arts, and the chair and co-founder of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City… among many other contributions to the creative world. We hear from Debbie about working with global brands and important non-profits, seeing your branding work all over the world, going after the things you want, being a great interviewer, coming out later in life, and love/life with her fianceé, writer Roxane Gay.

Interview with Debbie starts at:  00:15:08
Qmmunity Updates start at:  01:03:52

Show Links:

• Pride events spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sbMOE10qUQgnwQWKaokZK5weEhV5fFCkam8c2vkvwvk/edit#gid=0
• Small Business Loans dramarama: https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/04/23/small-business-loans-sba-203846
• Debbie Millman: http://debbiemillman.com
• Design Matters Podcast with Debbie Millman:
• Follow Debbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debbiemillman
• Follow Debbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/debbiemillman
• Joyful Heart Foundation: http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org

Qmmunity Updates links:

• Orange Juice & Biscuits podcast: https://www.dnrstudios.com/ojnb/
• Gattison: Instagram @gattisonofficial / Twitter: @iamgattison / music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBK9yCovJE / Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gattisonofficial/transformation/s-Jzgo9G6bhIp
• Robert Fieseler’s article, “My marriage was broken. The coronavirus lockdown saved it” http://huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-lockdown-marriage-relationships_n_5e960d78c5b6a00694f48183

For our 250th episode, I'm so honored to bring you this conversation with creative director, graphic designer, and entrepreneur Julian Alexander. Julian may be most well known for designing the album cover for 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Trying, and his design work on the Miles Davis box set The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions even earned him a GRAMMY for art direction! Even with those huge accolades under his belt, Julian is a really humble guy, and I think that really comes through in the interview.

We talked about how he got his start in design, his time as a design director for Sony Music, and I asked how his career changed for him after winning the GRAMMY. We also discussed the relationship between design and music, some of his current projects through his studio Slang Inc., and gave some really great advice for designers of all levels. Julian is a true champion for design and designers, and I'm so glad to be able to share his story with you all.

Cheers to 250 episodes of Revision Path!

• Slang Inc.
• Slang Inc. on Instagram
• Julian Alexander on Discogs

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Kate and Yoko are joined by ethnographer and people organizer Christina Xu. We talk about Christina’s relationship with the internet, and how she creates channels for enabling other people to do their most ambitious work . Also, Kate’s officiating her second wedding and conducted a survey about marriage (by the way, she’s got a boyfriend now. Y’all slept on that).