This is Design Speaks – Ep 1

An introduction to this Design podcast: Who we are and why we are doing this

Show Notes:

:52 Elevator Pitch… sort of… Michelle and Brandi introduce each other.

Brandi is a graphic designer. “Design makes the world prettier.” Michelle is a production assistant for a team of videographers. She’s explored the realm of radio and has explored a few facets of the creative world.

4:12 How old is Brandi? She’s 35. We’re bad at math, and she doesn’t know her own age.

She loves sports, literature, whimsy, and Sam & Dean from Supernatural.

6:45 Michelle is 29. She’s sure.

8:09 Brandi Sea Design thinking education. She has a blog, she has a YouTube. All good things. Go check them out if you have a moment. However, she didn’t feel that she was getting to fully explore some of the things she was talking about and also learning about, thus, the Design Speaks podcast is born!

10:28 The goal of this particular podcast is to inform people who don’t know about the importance of design and to advance the design thinking of those who already know and love it.

11:45 We have sparkling personalities, so we hope you keep listening because of how great we are. (Are you convinced?)

13:00 What do we have in store for you? We want to share what’s inspiring us every week, whether it be music, book covers, books, movies, a shirt we saw at a store… Whatever is on our minds each week.

14:14 Nothing is off limits because… creativity.

15:06 Vesperteen – please do yourself a favor and go check out this music. (You’re welcome.) The intro/outro song is kind of our podcast soundtrack. The whole EP has a has great energy, “unfunks” us when we’re in a funk.

16:10 What We Could Have Been by Vesperteen (not a part of the original EP)

17:53 Brandi How to stay creative and motivated.

18:37 A tactic Brandi uses is listening to a specific set of music. Her music of choice is a score by Sleeping as Last called Many Beautiful Things.  Like Pavlov’s Dog, she’s conditioned her mind to be ready to work by the time specific songs hit.

20:16 She starts playing the score at 5:30 am, and by the second song, her brain gets to work. Ideas happen. It feels like magic.

20:48 Sean Wes says that it all starts with writing. Regardless of what kind of work you do, you should write every day. If you don’t know what to write about, then free form.

21:32 Sean Wes says to wake up, feet on the floor, open up your computer or whatever you write with, and write. Don’t delete.

21:46 Nope – an app for your computer that encourages writing without editing.

The Most Dangers Writing App – Another great resource to kickstart your writing habits.

23:42 #6amclub – Brandi is a big fan of Sean Wes.

24:50 Question of the week: What inspires you?

25:35 Check out BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, and feel free to chime in with your thoughts, comments, and questions you have about anything graphic design. We’d love to talk about it!