A critique of the design of the internet today. This show deconstructs our assumptions and looks at the implementation of technology rather than the intent.
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Design Critique Podcasts
Our show encourages usable designs for a better customer experience in products and services. Each episode is different, with the only constant being our demand that UX design make our lives better and provide long term value. If you care about design's impact on our modern quality of life, give us a listen. You will hear: * Critiques of products & services we've used thoroughly, * Interviews with people whose work or books we admire, and * Discussions of design methods we use in our own use ...
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Unlock your path to creative success with the Design Break podcast, hosted by @RockyRoark—owner & design director of Blue Cyclops Design Co. Breaking into the creative world is hard enough. Making it as a freelancer is even more challenging. If you're currently considering jumping into a creative field or looking for freelance opportunities, this podcast is for you. Topics include creative community, design, branding, freelance, job searching, career advice, actionable advice, and more.
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The QuackCast features Ozoneocean, Banes, Tantz Aerine, and Pitface, talking about writing, movies, webcomics, art, politics, philosophy, sexuality, and everything else! We're the hosts of the oldest webcomic host on the net, Drunkduck.com, aka theduckwebcomics. 20 years this year!
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A podcast where Caleb, David, and Max critique video games as art
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Brought to you by McGill University’s Teaching and Academic Programs, Teach.Learn.Share thoughtfully explores teaching and learning practices in higher ed. Join us for conversations with McGill’s community of instructors, students, and other experts on topics such as generative AI in teaching and learning, teaching strategies for engaging students, and integrating sustainability into course design.
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The Angry Designer Graphic Design, Freelancing, Branding & Creative Business Podcast
A Graphic Design Podcast that cuts through the industry bull to help frustrated Designers charge what they're worth and build rewarding creative careers
The Angry Designer is an entertaining No-Bull unapologetic design podcast for Graphic Designers, Freelancers, and In-house Creative Pros ready to take their careers to the next level. Hosted by a Creative Director who built and sold a 7-figure Creative agency, this design podcast breaks down the business of design, branding, freelancing, logos, UX, strategy, AI, and more—without the industry fluff and pointless jargon. The Angry Designer tackles the topics other Graphic Design podcasts avoid ...
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Critical-Casts is a radio show that brings the many voices in the video games discourse and in my life all together around a central theme. In the series you'll find interviews from developers, gamers, and knowledgeable people of all kinds.
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The team sits down to react, review, discuss, question, hypothesize. Join Dan Miller, Dave Scotland, Tom Magill, Tony Oakden, Rik Legarto and guests, as they explore classic sci-fi films, blockbuster movies, vfx, cg & animation, from their very unique industry perspectives. Enjoy…
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Do you ever have those conversations, fuelled by a combination of a topic you're passionate about and a drink — or two, or five? In a roundtable series of casual conversations, your host Jacquie and guest designers, creatives and friends talk creativity, process, making work, views of society, and design culture.
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Total Survey Design is a podcast for explaining the complexities of survey design. This podcast serves a diverse audience, including academics, small business owners, nonprofits, industry professionals, and students. Each season features episodes covering topics from survey utility to sample sizes, and question design to total survey error. Episode content includes insightful discussions, expert interviews, and special event coverage to enhance your survey skills and understanding.
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The Imprint is a podcast for designers of color by designers of color
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A video Podcast where 3 Designers/Marketers Chat about what it takes to push your Marketing, Social Media and Branding game to the next level.
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Learn, Make, Learn is two product geeks sharing qualitative & quantitative perspectives to help you make, better. Hosted by Ernest Kim and Joachim Groeger.
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For the professional dog trainer (or aspiring professional dog trainer) who wants to get more dog training clients. You'll learn about testing your dog training ad campaigns, Google Ads, Facebook, Web design, email marketing, business cards, writing website copy (the persuasive text that gets dog owners to respond!) and more.
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Hello and welcome to my podcast. I am long time atheist youtuber Anubis2814. Here is a collection of my old videos on atheism from 10 years ago. If you are nostolgic for good old youtube atheism please subscribe. If you are more interested in politics please subcribe to my podcast "After School Democracy" or go to my channel. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vault-of-anubis/support
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Notes on Generational Mindset, executive skills, business, branding & goal implementation with award winning executive, business adviser and international speaker Xue Mei Rhodin. Visit http://xuemeirhodin.substack.com for all podcast episodes, articles, methods and community conversations. ------------------------------------------------------- My Virtual Townhouse for conversations about building a Generational Mindset in business and life: https://xuemeirhodin.substack.com All social media ...
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Go beyond the screen with the official podcast from Required Watching. This is your audio masterclass in the art of storytelling, designed for filmmakers, screenwriters, and dedicated cinephiles. Each week, host and film analyst Tray Epps (and sometimes other guests) deconstruct the craft of cinema, providing practical "Toolkit" episodes to improve your work and in-depth interviews with industry professionals who are shaping the future of film. If you're looking for actionable advice on ever ...
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Chris Do’s Under Armour Logo Critique Misses the Whole Point of Design
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13:50Chris Do called one of the most iconic sports logos “garish.” But here’s the truth: the only thing ugly about the Under Armour logo is how designers keep confusing personal taste with design. This isn’t about one logo, one critique, or one YouTuber. It’s about the dangerous way our industry lets opinions outweigh principles and why that mindset is …
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How Graphic Designers Can Turn Chaos Into Creativity with Rocky Roarke
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33:44Rocky Rourke proves that you don’t need employees, investors, or a perfect plan to build a successful design studio. Just creativity, guts, and a little weirdness. In this Live from Creative South Episode of The Angry Designer Podcast, Rocky shares how he turned his imaginary friend into a brand, his freelance hustle into a thriving agency, and his…
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Students critique AI: From understanding to analysis
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26:29What happens when students are asked to assess the work of gen AI? McGill instructor William Archambault explores how shifting from traditional test questions to gen AI-based critique tasks helps students develop their analytical skills. William discusses the motivation behind this redesign, the challenges of scaling it in large classes, and why te…
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Happy Halloween! This North American tradition of dressing up for October has spread around the world and we on the Quackcast acknowledge that by dressing up and joining in with the fun! Us in costume will be in a freely viewable video to anyone that looks at our Patreon this week, you don't have to be paid subscribers. I am a skull-faced Mariachi …
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We start off with a bit of a satirical interview where Banes and Tantz attempt to interrogate me over the slowness of the updates to the site. Banes asks the easy questions and Tantz hits me with a far more adversarial approach, I counter with all sorts of deflections like an annoying modern politician in order to show how people handle conflict. H…
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The Real Reason Graphic Design is Undervalued by EVERYONE
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30:59Everyone thinks they’re a designer. Your boss. Your client. That intern with Canva. And somehow, they all think they can do it better than you until they realize they can't. That’s the mess we’re living in. Graphic Designers aren’t just fighting clueless clients, pretend design software or AI prompts. We’re fighting a system we helped create. Becau…
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Jason Craig on Why Designers Need to Stop Complaining and Start Creating
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27:22Too many designers are stuck blaming AI, TikTok, and clients. Jason Craig says it’s time to shut up and make better work. In this brutally honest episode, we talk about perspective, perseverance, and purpose in design. Most designers think the industry’s dying. Jason Craig thinks they’ve just forgotten how good they have it. From designing for the …
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In this Quackcast we're chatting about the massively overblown impression that forensic science has in modern pop-culture media and how that can even affect reality when unscrupulous prosecutors use the public's misguided faith in "expert witnesses" and TV influenced ideas of the infallibility of forensic science to influence and sway juries when t…
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3 Real Dangers of AI Every Graphic Designer Should Know
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36:02AI isn’t the future of design. It’s the biggest threat most designers don’t see coming. While everyone’s celebrating faster workflows and effortless logos, AI is quietly reshaping the creative industry, and most designers are sleepwalking straight into irrelevance. This isn’t just about tools or technology. It’s about control, creativity, and wheth…
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Starbucks’ Struggles & Lessons for Product People
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1:12:02What can product people learn from Starbucks’ recent struggles, and how are these lessons linked to a venerable British book retailer, an upstart French running brand, and a barmy Japanese watchmaker? INTRO & FOLLOW-UPS – 02:47 Starbucks closing stores SPVs, Credit, and AI Datacenters This is How the AI Bubble Will Pop Neue Klasse – 60 Years of the…
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Why we show up: Students reflect on meaningful learning
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It's October and so it's time to talk about horror again! Not may fave genre but there are decent things that make it up and Banes, Tantz and I chat about some of them. Recently I enjoyed the anime DanDaDan and the American adult animated show Haunted Hotel, both on Netflix. They're both horror themed silly comedies that have a bit of parody of the…
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Fiverr Replacing Graphic Designers with AI and WHY Real Design Still Wins!
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36:40By A Graphic Design Podcast that cuts through the industry bull to help frustrated Designers charge what they're worth and build rewarding creative careers
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James Barnard on Turning Graphic Design Tutorials Into Authority
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48:26Most Graphic Designers think the way to get noticed is by chasing likes, posting tutorials, or following design formulas. But James Barnard has lived both sides...the viral design influencer and the working designer. And he’s here to tell you the hard truth: clout doesn’t pay your bills, legacy client work does. In this Live from Creative South epi…
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Police themed stuff is a popular genre! It's full of tropes and stylised aspects and generally very different from the reality, both from the actual police perspective and the perspective of those that deal with them, and I think I prefer it that way because the reality is usually pretty sad and ugly for all involved. So today we're talking about p…
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Graphic Design Careers Are Under Attack. Here’s How to Survive
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39:35Graphic design is only projected to grow 3% over the next decade. AI is churning out logos in seconds. Bootcamps and Canva “designers” are flooding the industry. If you think that means graphic design is dead, you’re missing the bigger problem. The real threat isn’t AI or oversupply, it’s the way designers think about their future. Here’s the part …
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Subtly Command Respect in Business Meetings: A Guide to Executive Presence through sound and respect-queues
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15:00Read paired article on Xue Mei Rhodin's SubStack here What I would do as a young business owner or executive in 2026, who wanted to gain subtle but effective respect before even entering a meeting. What lipstick, sound and note-taking have incommon to impact the impression you leave. Visit My Virtual Townhouse here: xuemeirhodin.substack.com. This …
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Don’t panic, plan: Three considerations for teaching in the era of gen AI
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Confidence is key! Confidence can make very attractive protagonists and villains and it can make almost any character sexy because confidence is compelling. Main characters and villains never have to be confident, but if you want your audience to be drawn to them it's a great technique. To make a sexy, compelling character confidence works was bett…
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Habits that Hold Graphic Designers Back in An AI World with Unmesh Dinda
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1:07:39Most Graphic Designers think success comes from creating the perfect logo, expensive gear, or waiting to be discovered. Wrong. The real killers of Graphic Design careers are perfectionism, overthinking, and flexing for likes instead of creating real value. With over 5 million subscribers and 1,000+ Photoshop tutorials, Unmesh Dinda, the face of Pix…
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Lettering Artist Dan Lee on Why Graphic Designers Must Chase Obsession, Not Trends
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56:26Lettering Artist Dan Lee proves that graphic design careers aren’t built on safe degrees or raw talent...they’re built on obsession and the courage to ditch the rules. This week on a special episode of The Angry Designer Podcast LIVE at Crop Con, we sit down with Lettering Artist Dan Lee, who walked away from chemical engineering to chase design, a…
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Mortality is a heavy, heavy subject. It was brought up in the forums a while ago so we're chatting about it now. We talk about death in popculture, how we treat death in our comics and our growing awareness of mortality as adults. You become increasingly aware of mortality as you age, mainly because you witness more and more of it in action; pets, …
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Why Niching is Failing Graphic Designers and What to Do Instead
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13:06Every designer has heard it: “Pick a niche. Specialize. Focus.” Even on THIS podcast! But here’s the uncomfortable truth... niching alone is a trap. The wrong kind of niche doesn’t just slow your career, it cages you, makes you replaceable, and puts your future in the hands of clients, tech, or the economy. This should sting: most of you are doing …
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Today we're chatting about things that are ostensibly superficially straightforward, but are actually quite clever and layered in many ways. The two prime examples are Paul Verhoven's Robocop and Starship Troopers. They can both be taken as simply dumb, hyper-violent action films, but both are also good, solid, basic satirical critiques of society.…
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Is Originality in Graphic Design Real or is Everything Just Stolen?
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38:48Every designer chases originality like it’s the holy grail. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: originality doesn’t exist. Nothing you’ve designed is original, and believing otherwise is killing creativity faster than bad clients ever could. Graphic designers hate to hear this, but most of you are guilty. You worship originality, terrified that inf…
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Scott Fuller on Why Substance Beats Style in Graphic Design
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1:06:34Graphic Design isn’t about chasing trends or giving your work away for “exposure.” Scott Fuller, founder of Studio Temporary reveals the lessons he learned the hard way from turning down unpaid internships to creating logos that stand the test of time. Scott’s story is as raw as it gets. From graduating as a valedictorian with an engineering schola…
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Quackcast 755 - My ending is not your ending
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59:26What happens if an author makes a massively popular story but takes ages and ages to finish that last part of it, and people are waiting breathlessly for years and years for them to end it? Would you support the idea of others taking it off their hands and finishing it FOR them? After all if the IP is popular enough and they've already sold it for …
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Cracker Barrel’s $700M Rebrand: Logo Design Fail or Brand Fail?
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39:29Cracker Barrel spent $700 million on a rebrand… and within a week, they had to run back to their old logo. Designers, this isn’t just a logo fail, it’s a brand disaster! It proves how dangerous it is when companies confuse modernization with progress. Here’s the part that should sting: most graphic designers would have made the exact same mistake. …
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Quackcast 754 - The role of dialogue!
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1:00:15Dialogue is used for more than just simple speech, it moves the story forward, it indicates what characters want, what they feel, what they want others to feel and more. But it's used a bit differently across different media. Comics have their own particular ways of doing things and it's quite interesting! We thank Banes for coming up with this top…
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Awful Logo Design. A MasterClass In Bad Logo Design for Good Designers
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31:40Bad logo design is everywhere. From stretched fonts to unreadable colors, from stolen stock icons to AI disasters, the world is flooded with logos that should never have seen the light of day. But here’s the kicker: these aren’t accidents. They follow patterns. And if you’re not careful, you could be making the exact same mistakes without realizing…
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Quackcast 753 - driven by internal struggles
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1:02:29Banes was the brains behind the Quackcast this week! His idea is that a character's internal struggle and how that conflicts with the realities they face can be a great driver for a story. -cribbed from listening to Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad fame. Banes is a much better story writer than me so I can't explain it as well, but a good example is …
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Cringy Things Graphic Designers Say That Sabotage Their Credibility. Do You Use Them?
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44:05Most graphic designers think their biggest challenge is competition, AI, or not getting enough exposure. The truth? Many designers are sabotaging themselves every time they open their mouths. From vague feedback requests to filler phrases that kill confidence, these everyday habits destroy trust, weaken authority, and make even talented designers l…
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Quackcast 752 - Censor 3, how it works on DD
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1:00:31This is the 3rd and final part of our censorship trilogy, you'll be glad to know! We tackled censorship past in the first one, then censorship present in the second, and now it's time for censorship future… as it applies to us, sticking our money where our mouth is. How do we tackle "censorship" on our comic hosting site? Spammers get their account…
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This Reddit Thread Thinks Being "Just" A Graphic Designer Is Risky...Do You?
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1:00:19Most graphic designers think being “just” a designer is safe. But when a Reddit thread exploded over whether it’s actually risky, we didn’t just scroll past. We tore it apart! Some takes were spot on. Others completely missed the mark and sounded like entitled designers crying because they didn't get their way (and we’re not shy about saying which …
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Quackcast 751 - An internet FULL of censorship!
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1:03:27Last time we talked about old fashioned censorship, NOW we're talking about how it's used these days! Back in the day there were limited pathways for you to disseminate information: newspapers, radio, TV, public speaking, posters, books, film, pamphlets, ads… They were all easy for governments to shut down in various ways. But then along came the i…
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Why Designers Chase the Wrong Logo Trends & What to Do Instead with LogoLounge's Bill Gardner
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1:26:38Most graphic designers think they understand logo design trends. But after reviewing nearly a million logos, Bill Gardner knows otherwise. As the creator of LogoLounge, the most iconic logo archive in the design world, Bill has seen the good, the bad, and the painfully average. He’s judged tens of thousands of marks, built trend reports that define…
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A Critique of Microsoft Word’s Feedback Survey
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12:44In this episode, I talk about a survey I didn’t plan to analyze—one that popped up the moment I opened Microsoft Word. Microsoft asked for feedback, and well… I had some. I break down the flaws in their opening question, including directional bias, vague wording, and unlabeled scale points. I also reflect on how these design choices impact data qua…
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Hey ho! We thought we'd address the topic of censorship again on the Quackcast! Today we're covering the topic in a rather general sense: The need for censorship; how it can be wrongly used; free speech and its limits; how free speech isn't equal around the world; slander and defamation; how censorship used to be applied to media and how that has c…
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The Future Won’t Need Just Graphic Designers
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46:25Graphic designers have mastered the art of making things look good, but the future of design demands more than pretty pixels. The world is shifting faster than most creatives can keep up, and the biggest threat to your career isn’t AI. It’s you: - clinging to outdated tools - static portfolios - a visual-only mindset The truth? Design is evolving b…
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This week our cast is about the folly of following fashion! It could be with clothes, hair, interior design, architecture, music, OR creation! Things like plot styles, story structure, art, lettering, fonts, jokes, twists etc, all are subject to fashions of the day. And we are driven to participate in it, not because we're fashionable creatures who…
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The Designer Mindset Shift That Changes Everything and How You're Falling Behind Without It
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43:16Most graphic designers think their biggest threat is AI, bad clients, or lack of exposure. But the real problem? They don’t think like designers at all. Instead, they’re still stuck in the artist mindset—chasing aesthetics, taking feedback personally, and wondering why they’re underpaid, overworked, and overlooked. But what if one mindset shift cou…
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Toolbox: Raymond Loewy & the MAYA Principle
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50:28Ernest & Joachim go deep on Raymond Loewy’s MAYA Principle: what it is & why it matters, with real world examples of MAYA in action, and what can happen when product teams fail to take the principle to heart. FOLLOW-UPS – 01:00 Toolbox: How “Jobs To Be Done” Can Help You Make, Better Fortis Marinemaster A BRIEF INTRO TO RAYMOND LOEWY – 06:04 MoMA o…
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Tantz Aerine showcased LGBTQ+ comics and creators for Pride month in June with the help of Skyangel, Mainly on Bluesky. It went to so well that she came up with the amazing idea of doing more monthly features for other themes. She doesn't want to dictate to us what those theme should be though, she wants input into the idea so we can all come up wi…
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Forget AI. Your Missing the Real Danger to YOUR Design Career
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49:05Graphic designers have been fighting the wrong battle. While the design world panics about AI taking jobs, a more dangerous threat has already arrived — Graphic Designers who know how to use AI better than you. They’re faster, sharper, and landing the work while you’re still debating whether it’s “ethical” to use the tools. This isn’t a future prob…
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Novels are basically long stories. They tend to have a lot of different plots and things all happening at once, unlike short stories. When writing a novel you have a lot of freedom to tell really BIG stories, stories that spanning worlds and centuries if you feel like it. In this Quackcast Banes chats to Tantz about the art of novel writing and wha…
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Designers Who Ignore Brand Strategy Are Getting Replaced with Dan Janssen
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40:00Designers are freaking out about AI, and for good reason. Clients are skipping strategy, bringing AI-generated logos to the table, and treating designers like disposable decorators. But while most designers are still obsessing over execution, the smart ones are building brands, owning strategy, evolving and becoming irreplaceable. This week on The …
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There's always time to start learning something new! If you think you're bad at art and people told you you lacked talent back in the day and that if you didn't start as a child then you have no chance to be good, please know that all of that is false- you can become an amazing artist whenever you start. In-born magical "Talent" is absolutely not r…
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AI Isn’t Replacing Graphic Designers. Your Client Is
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12:04Graphic Designers aren’t being replaced by AI. They’re being replaced by their own clients using AI. The real threat to a Graphic Designer isn’t AI. It’s lazy marketers, overconfident interns, and clueless execs showing up with AI-generated briefs, Frankensteined logos, and bloated brand docs pulled straight from a bot. And they expect you to clean…
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History is something big that happens in the past that you look back on and wonder about… ofttimes we only know about it from the pages of a book, old video footage, relics in a museum, or something like that, but there are also living resources for history in the memories of older people and indeed in your OWN head. This Quackcast was inspired by …
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This Mindset Is Limiting Your Graphic Design Career
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35:24Many graphic designers are stuck and they don’t even know it. They price based on feelings, take feedback like a punch to the gut, and chase originality over clarity…all because they’re thinking like artists, not designers. This mindset starts early with crayons, sketchbooks, praise for creativity and it feels right. But in the real world? That sam…
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