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

Have you ever looked at an award winning piece of work and wondered WHY?  HOW? My works better than that? Join the Angry Designers as they tackle the oh so subjective Design Awards topic. In this episode, the bearded beasts cover: why design awards even exist what's wrong with design awards the awards you should be concerned with how to deal without having an award This episode should leave y...

What do you get when you cross $350 million dollars and an award winning designer? Apparently a very beautiful, but questionable logo.  Join The Angry Designers in this charged up episode of Dope or Nope, as they give an objective review of the NEW Calendly logo and new brand system. With a few stories, rants, and laughs as always, this episode may leave you horny for more! Stay Angry our Friends...

Whether it's about only making things look good, to wearing thick glasses and turtlenecks, there are many common misconceptions about what design is and what designers are like.    Join the Angry Designers as they tackle the topic of designer misconceptions. This episode will make you laugh, cry, feel settled or get angry! Stay Angry our Friends ––––––––––– Join Anger Management for Designers...

Decision by Committee plagues all designers sooner or later in their careers. The time will come when you have you present your designs to a group of ill informed decision makers who have been brought together for what seems to be no other reason than to make your life difficult, while offering no constructive criticism at all.  Join the Angry Designers in this episode as they discuss the trials a...

Have you ever had a really bad Customer Experience with a brand & didn't tell a single person ? A really bad Customer Experience spreads faster with more open ears than good ones, which is why CX is at the core of a brand! Join the Angry Designers in their 30th episode as they tackle the topic and importance of Customer Experience. Over the course of the podcast, the bearded gents: what i...

Have you ever wondered what motivated you to select one product over another - even though you have no experience with either brand? Join the Angry Designers in this episode as they discuss the importance of good design: - how it can directly affect sales - how it can persuade people to act - 7 sales opportunities to existing clients Check it out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, on google or on our web...

You know you've done it! Said Sh#t that just isn't true to a customer.  From being thankful for a ridiculous deadline, to being agreeable to their creative ideas? Whether it's due to inexperience, fear, or to protect our relationships, we've all stretched the truth once or twice...or 100 times. Don't worry - it's not just you. Join the Angry Designers as they laugh th...

Did you ever wonder how some design companies can charge more than 10x what you do for what seems to be the same project? Or why some designers are able to charge triple your rate? The secret to a successful career in design, being more valuable to customers and charging more for your work, has nothing to do with how talented you are as an artist. It has to do with the processes you implement! Joi...

The Drink Wars! One of the toughest shelf spaces to fight for. Is a brand refresh enough? Join The Angry Designers as they wage war on Snapples new logo! Is it a natural progression for the brand,  charting new territories, or just a poor condom brand knock-off?  This episode will leave your thirsty for more! Stay Angry our Friends ––––––––––– Join Anger Management for Designers Newsletter at http...

It's always easier to YES than to say NO.  But what if saying YES - stopped your skills from getting better - stopped you from finding better clients - stopped you from making more money Learning to say NO the right way will take you further and faster than any other skill you can learn in your design career. This episode will talk about when it's good to say NO, warning signs & flag...

Ageism in the workplace is bigger than sexism + racism combined - yet no one ever talks about it.   Why is there a significant drop off of designers over the age of 40?  Are young designers cheap and disposable? Is a career in design only for the young?  This is a very real thing that all designers deal with:  young and old. In this episode, The Angry Designers will dispel myths about old designer...

Nothing is more scarier than Burnout. Burnout is a very real thing that happens to almost all designers at some point of during their career. Some recover, some never return.  Burnout is a scary word no one likes to talk about - but talking about it is key to surviving it. This sobering episode of The Angry Designer speaks to past stories, experiences, & tragedies of burnout. This episode will...

Can a company improve it's brand without changing it's product - what gives? Join The Angry Designers as they give an objective review of the NEW Burger King logo and brand. With a few stories, rants, and laughs, this Whopper of an episode will leave you hungry for more! Stay Angry our Friends ––––––––––– Join Anger Management for Designers Newsletter at https://tinyurl.com/mr4bb4j3 Want...

Adobe dominates the design software but could they be anymore out of touch with designers?  While it's built FOR designers, it's definitely not built BY designers. The Angry bearded dudes rant about the software we all have such a love hate relationship with - Adobe Creative Cloud.  Stay Angry our Friends ––––––––––– Join Anger Management for Designers Newsletter at https://tinyurl.com/m...

Apple wasn't the first to invent the smart phone, the MP3 player, the smartwatch - yet the continuously dominate what ever market they enter! Simple - they tap into what people really want. The bearded angry guys tackle the world of technology and the pitfalls many tech companies  fall into when marketing their products. This episode will give you a whole new perspective on deciding what fact...

Has Comic Sans been replaced? A font is one of the most important part of a designers world and can either help or hurt a brand! " The right font can provide you years of visual brand success while the wrong one will result in overhauls again and again. What the Font" explores why designers often use Trendy fonts, the top 7 worst fonts of our time, how to use trending fonts, how to choos...

Can a brand be stronger than it's logo?  The Kia brand was once known as a budget friendly car. From it's ads, to it's logos, no one wanted a Kia, they merely settled because of it's price point.  In recent years however, Kia's cars have become technological marvels offering more value with more innovation than vehicles twice its' price tag. Has the product outgrown t...

Whether completely innocent, ignorance or downright disrespectful, graphic designers hear the most incredible things.  Making light of some of the most commonly heard things graphic designers hate to hear, the guys laugh and rant about their most memorable and favourite. Rants, stories, laughs, and sharing the most powerful way for graphic designers to stop getting taken advantage of is only a dow...

Who needs a designer anymore - there's an app for that!  Did you ever notice how everywhere you look, there is software trying to replace the services people provide? From graphic design to customer service and even coding - there is a misconception that you don't need a person anymore! The gents have a go at the misconception that AI logo generating software can replace a designers role...

Is it Dope or Nope? In this first Logo review, the guys rant on the new General Motors logo (spoiler alert - what the heck?). Discussing the history of the company, the new direction for the technology & the brand, and the aesthetics of what has become the new GM logo, the guys cover all angles providing both a biased AND unbiased opinion at the new face of General Motors. Stay Angry our Frien...

A new year ushers in good wishes, new goals, and lists of New Brand & Logo design trends to follow. But wait, we've barely implemented last years design trends? This firey topic has the Angry Designers rant about the ridiculous nature of Annual Logo & Brand design trends how trends actually damage your brand provide advice to consider for your own brand, where and how-to-use design tr...

Forget bounce rates or page breaks, people aren't even reading anymore! Whether it's a website, social post, ad or sales sheet, people are reading less and less and it's becoming a marketers nightmare! The guys discuss some shocking stats about how digital is changing the way people process text and offer some ideas on how to play to this while cutting through the clutter and get re...

The holidays are a time for food, family, ugly Christmas sweaters, tacky Christmas decorations and presents from if not Santa, then who? The Brand of Christmas has evolved. New pressures of turning this beloved holiday into a Generic Secular Winter Holiday have given the gents lots to rant about as well as delivering their top Christmas design fails for the season. Stay Angry our Friends –––––––––...

Why do people add unnecessary complexity to design solutions? Yet complex solutions often fail to get the results your technology brand, your marketing, your message is working so hard for! The guys discuss possible reasoning for adding unnecessary complexity like Cognitive Bias, False Consensus Effect, and the Curse of Knowledge, while also sharing experiences and suggestions on how to simplify y...

Have you ever been so sure of an idea, only to find out the customer doesn't like it? Or how some crazy start up ideas receive millions of dollars in investment? We all know user testing is important - even at a basic level. So how do these things happen? The guys discuss the false consensus effect phenomenon and how it affects designers, developers and business owners. Real world stories, ex...