Adventures In Design

Miranda and Ben from Snake Oil Provisions return from a seven-month podcast hiatus to share how their 2019 wrapped up and explain the perfect timing setting up 2020 to be their most ambitious year yet!

Andrew Fairclough is a damn good designer and even a better illustrator. But he doesn't do either of the jobs professionally anymore because he found something that he's even better at, a new passion that challenges him even more and also happens to reward him more. True Grit Texture Supply was the side hustle of the side hustle, and now it's the all-day hustle.

The true path to success is taking all the parts that make you and to apply them to a project that you love. Finn McKenty took his love of graphic design, marketing, and branding and applied it to his love of the underground music scene. Perfectly merging his professional life with his personal life, the Punk Rock MBA was born.

Justin Scarred is a content creator on YouTube, and for the past eight years, he has traveled the highways of the world for his series Randomland where Justin shares his childlike optimism for all things curious and weird with thousands of viewers worldwide. Today's conversation is between two content creators and what it means to wake up every single day trying to find an interesting adventure to take your audience on.

Brian Kesinger worked for Disney for twenty plus years, and he's only forty-one. Hired out of high school, he went straight to his dream job. But like all creatives, he started to see a different version of his dream that meant making some big life moves.

100% Soft is the illustrated world of Truck Torrence, a former graphic designer that stepped into illustration and has created his unique style guide. Truck explains his rules of building within the 100 Soft looks and how he processes the real world into his illustrated world.

Another new voice from Lincoln Design Co illustrator Brandon Hunsaker makes a rare interview appearance as our 5th voice for our 20/20 special. Brandon found artwork through skateboarding and music in the early eighties. He started illustrating his favorite skateboard graphics, band logos, and comic characters as a kid and still does all of that now as an adult at Lincoln. Living a lifetime of illustrating all of the things that make him happy and it's a complete honor to have him on the show.

Illustrator and animator Damasso Sanchez is one of the voices from Lincoln Design Co. that you haven't heard on Adventures In Design before. Domasso shares how his roots in animation taught him how to illustrate both fast and with confidence. Sanchez explains how Lincoln accidentally started animated their logos and perhaps opened a portal to tons of new client and branding work. 

Miguel Wilson shares with us a story about following your heart and being open to wherever that journey may take you! From stadium stages as a professional hip hop dancer to China as a toy manufacturing consultant and back LA as a toy designer concept artist. Globally, Miguel is in search of one thing, and one thing only, happiness.

Nick Sambrato, like many of us, fell backward into printing. He fell from being a band manager in the music industry. Years later, he's still managing artists, but instead of musicians, it's the highly trained men and women of Mama's Sauce, his specialty printing business in Orlando, Florida. Nick co-runs his company with the mindset that Mama's Sauce is right for everyone but perfect for some!

Gigposter legend Jermaine Rogers explains how he made the transition to doing what he wanted to do fo for a living versus what he had to do. If people assume you're going to fail, then what do you have to lose. Jermaine shares his view on the accountability of artists who do not stand up and speak out on what they believe in because they are worried it will hurt their careers. It seems both history and Jermaine Rogers are both watching and judging your next steps.

Jeral Tidwell shares some unexpexted turns that 2019 delevired him and in the Circle of Trust gets you pumped up to take on 2020 like a champ!

We've all speculated on the mythical convention character, the elusive client shopping for creative. And at Designer Con Mark Brickey caught one in his Lincoln Design Co RV trap. Eric Morley, a partner and co-owner of Blue C, was walking and shopping the isles of DCON looking for future creatives to collaborate with him and his ad agency clients. Hear the pro-tips on what booths get his attention and draw him in to make a prospective partner.

We recently caught back up with British illustrator Dan Mumford during one of his many visits to California. Dan shared the evolution of his career that was wildly unknown to him when he started over a decade ago. Mumford has transformed into one of the voices of iOS illustration being one of the first designers to professionally dive into illustrating on the iPad using mobile apps. His success in this space has been celebrated by both Adobe and Apple.

We catch up on Brian after hitting reset on his wild big city lifestyle and relocating to Columbus, Ohio, where Ewing settled down by becoming a tattoo artist. Every artist is searching for a signature style, but what happens when you become bored with what made you famous?