AS WE CREATE

Chris Piascik "accidentally" became an illustrator after years as a graphic designer. His style and humor has allowed him to work with many brands including Coca-Cola, Nickelodean , and Google. Chris has a large following on YouTube and has hosted many classes on Skillshare . In this conversation we talk about how this all came to be.

Designer Bonnie Siegler is the founder of  Eight and a Half design studio. She shares stories of working for MTV in the early years and getting hand written notes from Prince. Since going off on her own, she has worked with VH1 , Air America Radio , and Saturday Night Live .  We also chat about two books she's published: Dear Client: This Book Will Teach You How to Get What You Want from Creative...

Jack Tom is a designer and illustrator with decades of experience. He grew up on the west coast but made his way to New York to meet Milton Glaser . He shares that story and how that led him to work under Chris Blum at Honig-Cooper & Harrington and later to develop his love for magazines working for McCall's . We get into an lot in this episode, enjoy!    

We sit down with the founder of Map Agency , John Rudolph. John's roots are in upstate New York, though after attending Syracuse, he made his way to Connecticut where he worked as a designer at numerous small agencies. Great conversation!

Emily Larned is a designer, educator, and publisher. Her path started in grassroots publishing and everything she does today is still influenced by those early years. We visited her studio in Bridgeport to talk about the way people connect today and empowering the next generation of designers.  As We Create is a production of the Connecticut Art Directors Club , a 501(c)(3) non profit organization...

We sit down with legendary designer and CADC Hall of Famer, Alexander Isley. It all started growing up in North Carolina and attending NC State, then off to NYC to attend Cooper Union. Alex spent his early career under the guidance of Tibor Kalman and then moved on to serve as Art Director of Spy Magazine. Alex eventually started his own studio that has quite the client list.  https://alexanderisl...

Carla Gonzalez is an Associate Creative Director at Mintz + Hoke in Avon, CT. How did her creative path begin? Perhaps wanting to be a designer or illustrator, but no…she was a math teacher. The is a wonderful conversation with someone that always thinks outside the box. She will make you smile! To find out more about Carla: Instagram Linkedin  

For our first episode, we couldn't think of a better guest than the CADC's founder, Mark Vogt. Back in 1975, Mark was a young Art Director, and at the age of 25, he felt that something was missing in Connecticut's creative community, and decided to do something about it.   He shares the story of bringing together the core group that would create the Connecticut Art Directors Club.