This week we approach the ever-ubiquitous word “hipster”. What is a hipster and what can we, as creatives (or normal people) learn from them to be better at what we do?

2:00 Reminiscing about Leatrice Eisemen!

2:30 Michelle’s Week: Lots of filming and sun!

3:33 Tanning sucks. It’s bad for your skin, it fades your expensive tattoos, AND you have to buy new make up. No thanks.

5:00 Michelle’s Song: The Chainsmokers and Coldplay, Something Just Like This.
8:20 Check out the artwork for this song. It’s pretty sweet.

8:40 Remember, you can listen to our spotify playlist if you wanna hear any of the music we’ve played on Design Speaks!

9:30 Brandi’s Week! She worked at the event Michelle was filming at, but at night. She spent time at the pool with her kiddo, and read some books— “The Film Club”

11:40 Brandi’s Song: Wavorly, Strangers In Love

25:45 *NSYNC is better than Backstreet Boys. Don’t argue. They had Justin.

16:30 Definition of Hipster: A person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural original mainstream.

19:31 Brandi’s definition: People who say they’re not following the trends, but they actually are.

19:48 Question of the week: Is there anything good/anything we can learn from “hipsters”?

21:45 Check out Brandi’s blog post, “What We Can Learn From The Hipster Mindset”

21:55 The term hipsters came from the 60’s beatniks. They were trying to go against the trends, not set them. Black turtlenecks, not a lot of color… Opposite of the hippies.

23:23 Hipsters place high value on certain things… Whatever they choose to be passionate about, they become really passionate about and make it awesome. Coffee, house decor, organic food. Often this leads to changing the world!

24:14 The like new versions of old things. A weird nostalgia for things they’ve never experienced (vinyl records, polaroids/analog film)

25:00 Midnight in Paris

26:58 The hipster mindset is to use hands on tools – sketchpads, things that are not computers.

27:45 Lomography definition, in case you didn’t know what it was

28:03 This might create a jack of all trades, master of none mentality because everything is so easily accessed.

30:00 They see the world differently. They have the ability to look at something gross to other people, and see its potential. (an old chair dumped on a sidewalk. they take it home, and remake it.)

21:34 Their unique approach to problems are rad! They share their process, their progress, and have a new sense of transparency that we haven’t experience before they showed up on the scene.

33:40 By doing this, it creates a community of likemindedness.

34:29 Hipsters want to know the trends, but they want to find something in it that’s special to them. (Brandi looooves the word “bazillion”)

35:19 Designers have to do the same thing! We should be following the trends, but figuring out what’s special in them to us.

36:21 Seriously, be willing to learn from people who are not like you! Change your outlook.

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