Print Design Podcast - How to Win with Print in a Digital World

Print Design Podcast - How to Win with Print in a Digital World

Hosted by: Dave at Print Design Academy

In a world racing toward AI and screens, print is more valuable than ever. While everyone fights for attention on the same crowded feeds, the designers reaching for paper, ink, and real tactile work are the ones...

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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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Episode 73 - Jonny Black - The Office of Ordinary Things - D+K Printing Promotion

This week's guest is Jonny Black from TOOOT. Also known as The Office of Ordinary Things out of San Francisco California.  This episode is literally years in the making. So you better like it. Kidding, I know you...
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Episode 72 - Mackenzie Brookshire - Landscape - Cookma Print + Packaging

This week's guest is Mackenzie Brookshire. She is the Creative Director from Landscape out of Oakland, CA. @thisislandscape During this episode, we talk about drawing sunshines, Koolaid points, Cereal Packaging, and...
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Episode 71 - Dan Gretta - Cigar Bands + Packaging - Dapper Cigars

This week's guest is Dan Gretta. He is a designer and illustrator who has been putting out incredibly detailed work for Cigar Bands, Cigar Packaging, high-end spirits, and more. During this episode we are doing a deep...
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