The Angry Designer Graphic Design, Freelancing, Branding & Creative Business Podcast

Who delivers presents at Christmas? Who led the reindeers with his shiny red nose? What do we put presents under on Christmas eve? While it's nice to believe these traditions have been around since the beginning of time, the brand of Christmas has been the perfect storm of different cultural traditions, literacy and retail! Join The Angry Designers this week as they come together to love and...

Do you often find yourself falling back to using the same type tricks in your work? Whether you think it looks cool or not, you're falling prey to your own safety net. You know it's safe, you know people will nod in acceptance, but does it make you a better designer? Does it push yourself into new uncharted territories? Join The Angry Designers this week as they tackle a Top 10 list of L...

What does it take to keep a customer for decades? Is it only about customer service or is there more to it?  Join The Angry Designers as they discuss the reality (or secret) of zfactors longest running client relationships and what it took to keep them and the secret to the single greatest driver of new business opportunities. In this charged up episode you will learn about: Customer for life idea...

Around every corner, you hear a new story about someone losing their job to some new, disrupting technology. From retail, to finance, to even web design - it seems no industry is safe from the futurists relentless pursuit of "The wrath of the Robots?" Join The Angry Designers as they break apart modern day technology in the hopes of revealing if Robots are coming for a Graphic Designers...

The BBC has made headlines again with its latest logo rendition - proving that as important as a new logo is, so is it's launch! Join The Angry Designers in this episode of Dope or Nope where they provide an un-objective review of the NEW BBC logo!   With a few stories, rants, and laughs as always, this episode may leave you wanting to tune in  for more. Stay Angry our Friends ––––––––––– Joi...

We’ve all seen countless lists online of Great Designers you NEED to know. But while those lists tell us WHO they are, they very rarely tell us WHY they are so important. WHAT they taught us. What makes them Graphic Design Heros! Join the Angry Designers as they continue their countdown to reveal their top list of legendary Graphic Designers past & present, and WHAT mark they left on Graphic D...

Rand. Vignelli. Bass.  You often HEAR about these great graphic designers, but do you really know what they contributed? What they are known for? What mark they left on graphic design? In this episode of The Angry Designer podcast, the beardos reveal their top list of legendary Graphic Designers past & present, and WHAT mark they left on Graphic Design.  You will learn about: Who they are What...

"Don't play with your food" is what we've been told - but Pringles Chips (or Crisps) were meant to be played with, from their shape to their packaging. Now the brand and icon is fun and playful, but not globally equal - what gives? Join The Angry Designers in this episode of Dope or Nope where they provide an un-objective review of the New Pringles logo and packaging...both ver...

Have you ever contemplated throwing in the towel as a Graphic Designer? That, possibly the daily grind of long days, short deadlines and countless revisions has finally taken its nasty toll on you and its time to consider something else for a career?   Join The Angry Designers in this not-so-angry episode as they tackle the TOP 15.2 reasons (of over 60) on why being a Graphic Designer Rocks . In t...

Have you ever spent more time searching for the perfect font than actually designing? The excessive surplus of fonts have created a nightmare for designers (and confusion).  Famous legendary designer Massimo Vignelli said  "New fonts have created Visual pollution". Join The Angry Designers as they battle against lazy designers who rely on fonts instead of good designs. This episode will...

Digital first my A$$...nothing is more frustrating than trying to match an online brands color, with a printed output.  Why is it that those amazing colors you see on screen print out so pale and washed out? Or how you can't seem to find the right hex code to match that brochure you've been asked to match? Join The Angry Designers this week as they take you back to school to Colors 101 w...

A piece of Americana. A muse for Warhol. A target for Banksy. Love the taste or hate it, how does a simple unassuming can of soup become such a global phenomenon. And with so much attention, who would dare mess with it? Join The Angry Designers in this episode of Dope or Nope where they provide an un-objective review of the New Campbells soup logo and packaging.  With a few stories, rants, and lau...

Is a Logo the same thing as a Brand?  No matter where you look, people seem to think Logo & Brand are interchangeable...but the truth is - THEY ARE NOT!!!!  Join the Angry Designers as they cover this ever confusing, and infuriating topic. In this episode the Gents discuss:  What is a logo Why is it important to a brand What is a brand Branding in 3 parts How to make more money without being a...

The design industry is plagued with buzzwords, fancy new processes, and everyone trying to coin the next big shiny thing. Where does term Design Thinking fit into all of this? Is it a legit thing or just another fancy packaged process to what we already do? Join the Angry Designers in this episode as they DeBunk the term Design thinking and try to explain it in a way that is meant to be understood...

There is an evil plague that is making it's way through the business world - making it increasingly difficult to understand your peers!  It's  leaving its mark across emails, texts and even worse, in person. We are talking about Buzzwords.  Listen in as the Angry Designers laugh their way through something we're all guilty of using, but few are proud to admit to. In this new Angry p...

Does being a humble designer automatically mean you suffer from imposter syndrome or is that the highest form of confidence? Are arrogant designers more successful? Catch this fired up episode of The Angry Designer as they cover the topic of Humility vs Arrogance as a designer. In this podcast the beards cover: - Humility vs Arrogance - what is confidence - is humility a sign of imposter syndrome...

As design experts, we spend SO much of our time sweating the small stuff. Does that pixel look weird? Should I move that letter a fraction of a cm to the left? Is that font bold enough? Reality check. Those things just DON'T MATTER as much as we think they do! There are more important things to customers than perfection. Join the angry designers as they unravel the mystery of the poison of pe...

Good artists copy, great artists steal. This popular saying has been parroted by Steve Jobs and even Pablo Picasso. While having your work copied is said to be flattering - plagiarism just sucks. But where is the line? Join the Angry Designers as they share their opinion (and a few choice words) on design, inspiration and plagiarism. In this new Angry podcast the Gents cover: Why designers steal R...

Get yourself ready for a dose of nostalgia, we’re heading back to the 80s and dissecting the sh*t outta the Los Angeles logo. Join The Angry Designers for another charged up episode of Dope or Nope, as they give an objective review of the NEW Los Angeles tourism logo. With a few stories, rants, and laughs as always, this episode may leave you horny for more. Check out the new podcast on Spotify, A...

They are NOT Myths ...logos can cost more than Houses, Mansions, even a whole damn Island!  From the iconic Nike Swoosh to the broadcasting giants across the pond at the BBC, this week The Angry Designers rant about the ridiculous stories behind some of the world’s most expensive logos, as well as answering the question – what is it exactly that makes a logo so damn expensive? On this episode, the...

It never fails - just when you think your work load is full and you can't fit anything else in, a customer calls with an emergency ask! Why? How? Dont' they plan for these things? Regardless of the oversight, designers are regularly challenged with tight deadlines and turn arounds - it is as part of the industry as Adobe.  Join the Angry Designers as they provide a to-do list of how to a...

At what point does the the meaning behind a logo go too far. If you have to explain it, does it really work? If you're a billion dollar brand - do the same rules still apply? Join The Angry Designers in this episode of Dope or Nope, as they give an objective review of the NEW Pfizer logo and brand system. With a few stories, rants, and laughs as always, this episode may leave you horny for mo...

You're tempted to try but know you shouldn't. The allure of this months trending font gets you and you try  just one. Then another. Next thing you know, you're binging on fonts! Struggling to choose the right one in your own personal library of hundreds  that is grows daily, and then BOOM! You've gone too far. Today, fonts are as widely available as stock photography and vector...

To use stock photos, or NOT to use stock photos. That is the questions!  Do you use stock photography, or hire a real photographer? Which site to use, which license to buy. Finding the right stock photo is an art form all to it's own. Join this loud episode of The Angry Designer where the guys tackle Stock Photography - a graphic designers friend! In this episode they cover: history of stock...

Net 30 pleeeease? Have you ever had to chase a client to get paid for work you've done, or even worse, been stiffed altogether? Join this fiery podcast of The Angry Designer where the guys tackle Getting Paid! In this episode we cover: why this happens to designers warning signs excuses clients give strategies on ensuring you get paid  From losing money, to stories of deadbeat clients and get...