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After a little bit of a hiatus, we're back!  This week we talked with Dee Drenning, who's not only an awesome human being, but also our new co-host.  In this episode, we get to know Dee, do a refresher on what this podcast is all about and why we love what we do, and talk briefly about what Jayvn and Anna have been up to since the last episode release.  Did you know that we're doing...

This week, we spoke with the new executive director of Continuity, a local nonprofit that addresses the disparities and lack of equity in the film and media production industry.  We talk about why Continuity is such an important program in St. Louis, how COVID-19 has affected their curriculum and what they've done to pivot, and how media has changed as social media and technology have become...

In this episode, we talked with the duo that created the few-week-old initiative called Painted Black STL , Jayvn Solomon & Tyson Baker. That's right-- One of the STL by Design co-hosts is both the interviewer and interviewee this time! Painted Black STL began as an initiative to support & boost black artists and their voices by paying them to paint businesses that were boarded up due...

In this episode, we talk with the new Executive Director of the St. Louis Metro Market, Quinton Ward.  The St. Louis MetroMarket is a non-profit mobile farmers’ market that is restoring access to healthy, affordable food to St. Louis City food deserts. They have transformed a donated city bus into a grocery store on wheels to bridge physical, financial, and educational barriers in food deserts in...

This week, we talked with Scott Gericke, who's one of the design school teachers at UMSL here in St. Louis. Scott has been a designer in St. Louis for many years, and also served as AIGA St. Louis President from 1994–1997.  We talked about how education has changed because of COVID-19 for both students and teachers, and what UMSL's design program is doing to help support the graduating c...