Print Design Podcast - Inspiration for In-house Creative Teams

Today's guest is Nick Pilon. He is an Associate Creative Director at Mosaic NA at their Toronto ON office.  During this episode we do a deep dive into the idea, decisions, design, writing, and production of the Budweiser brand book. Fun fact - 6 weeks - 6 weeks from idea, to finished product...insane! We also talk about a recent magazine rebrand / redesign that he really appreciated. EasyRide...

Today's guest is Armin Vit. He is the co-founder of UnderConsideration and the Brand New Conference with his wife Bryony. During this episode we talk about how he really liked the original Atari box as well as the very first iPhone box. We also talk about his first design project, a printed postcard. Armin and I then do a deep dive into the design and production details, as well as the costs invol...

Today's guest is Tracie Ching. She is a very talented illustrator that does a lot of work in the political and pop culture space. During this episode we talk about specific hoarding, which is much healthier than regular hoarding. We also talk about possibly one of the earliest illustrations she did which was a poster for the DARE campaign that went through her elementary school. We talk about the...

Today's guest is Amanda Schutz. She is a designer, illustrator, and the owner of Curio Studio out of Edmonton AB .  During this episode we get into offset and digital printing but mixed in with specialty finishing. We do a deep dive into their self promotional print project called Tools of the Trade. This is an incredible piece that showcases the beauty of print and how it can make a huge imp...

Today's guest is Caleb Kozlowski. He is the Creative Director at Hybrid Design in San Francisco CA. They are the creative team behind the Mohawk Maker Quarterly. Caleb has a great way of looking at print differently. He shares his perspective on print as an object instead of just something that is printed. It's something that has texture and interactive components to it. He also gives us a behind...

Today's guest is Chad Michael. He is the designer and founder at Chad Michael Studio.  Chad and I talk about high end spirit labels in this episode. He does a deep dive on a label project he completed for HYWILDE Liqueur and two of their products. There was even a bit of an oops on one of them that he tells us about. He also shares with us his very first packaging design project from school a...

Today's guest is Scott Santoro. He is design Principal at his studio called Worksight, adjunct professor at Pratt Institute, and author of the book "Guide to Graphic Design".   Scott and I get into offset print design and do a deep dive into a brochure project he creative directed and designed for Gilbert Paper. It led to a series of brochures based on the same theme. There was...   Hone...

Today's guest is Jason Craig. He is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator out of Augusta GA. Also the man behind Crunk Friday. @jasonthe29th Jason and I talk Screen Print in this episode. He does a deep dive on two posters that he printed earlier in his career and how they came to be. One was a poster for Aaron Draplin @draplin and the other was a gig poster for Bubba Sparxx. He also shares with us h...

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