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Episode 85 - Why freelance designers are stuck at $50k/year and how to grow past it
If your design business hit some early growth and then flatlined, this one's for you.
In this solo episode I get into the three problems that quietly stall out most freelance designers, your work is invisible, you're...
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Episode 84 - How to Build a Cult Brand in Print - with Kierian Cameron, Editor of Brand Cult Newspaper
Kierian Cameron is the editor of Brand Cult, the UK's first print-only business newspaper, and it's unlike anything else landing in a mailbox: wax sealed, wrapped in tissue, shipped in an ominous black envelope, and...
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Episode 83 - How a Newspaper can land your next Client - With Kaye Symington from Newspaper Club
Kaye Symington is the CMO of Newspaper Club and co-founder of Glasgow Print Fair. A self-proclaimed "print enabler" rather than a printmaker.
In this one we get into how Newspaper Club went from three friends printing...
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Episode 82 - How to Make Real Money Designing for Print with Laura Jane Boast
Laura-Jane Boast has run her Manchester studio Conscious Made for 12 years, and it's basically all print.
In this episode she gets into how she niched hard into color, material, and finish (CMF for short) and turned a...
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Episode 81 - Designing a 640-Page Book, with Dora Drimalas from Hybrid Design
Dora Drimalas, co-founder of San Francisco studio Hybrid Design, spent years (on and off, over a decade) building a 640-page case-bound monster of a book, and in this episode she walks me through every nerdy detail of...
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Episode 80 - A Bowl of Nostalgia: Neenah x Print Design Academy Cereal Box Collab
In this episode I sit down with Michelle McDermott-Pautz, who runs channel marketing for Neenah Paper in North America, to walk through the two-year journey of building a mini cereal box collection that shows off...
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Episode 79 - Alberta Distillers Rare Batch Whisky - Olberding Brand Family
In this episode, Dave talks with Chris Gajus, Creative Director at Olberding Brand Family, about the packaging for Alberta Distillers Rare Batch that his team helped bring to life.
If you’re a graphic designer or...
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Episode 78 - Diego Marini - Yummy Colours - Statue of Liberty + Sophy Holland Books
This week's guest is Diego Marini. He is a Co-Founder, Creative Director, and Designer from Yummy Colours out of New York. Although he is located in Copenhagen.
Diego loves books. To put it lightly. During client...
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Episode 77 - Tony - Industry Print Shop
My guest on this episode is Tony Diaz from Industry Print Shop out of Austin Texas. If you haven't heard of Industry, where have you been!? I call this episode, story time with Tony.
In this episode, we talk...
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Episode 76 - Connie Lui - Yummy Colours - Concept of the Year
This week's guest is Connie Lui. She is a Partner, Creative Director, and Designer from Yummy Colours out of New York.
I saw an Instagram post that Yummy Colours shared featuring their most recent Concept of the Year...
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Episode 75 - 3 Things Designers should do to prepare for a recession
A rare solo episode with Dave Hopkins, Founder of Print Design Academy and host of the Print Design Podcast.
They say we are in a recession and it is going to get worse...so what can you do so that it sucks...
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Episode 74 - The Print Design Summit - BTS, wins, fails, lessons, and will there be a Summit 2024?
This episode features us, Dave and Gabby, breaking down the Print Design Summit.
We share our expectations, actual results, our wins, our fails, lessons learned, how we feel it went, and answer the big...
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