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Students of Design

Students of Design

Di: Joseph Israel Raul Bullard
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 Students of Design is a graphic design podcast for students, young professionals, or anyone navigating the design industry. Hosted by Joseph Israel Raul Bullard, a Logo & Visual Identity Designer based in Colorado. Join me as I interview industry professionals and work with them to decode the design industry, talk about what it takes to be successful, and hopefully answer some of those burning questions that all students have. Email your question to studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.2024 Arte Successo personale Sviluppo personale
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  • Blake Spiegel – Crop Conference, Tattoos, and Visual Rhyming – Ep47

    Blake Spiegel – Crop Conference, Tattoos, and Visual Rhyming – Ep47
    Apr 22 2026
    Blake is a designer and art director in Minneapolis with over 10 years of experience working at the intersection of brand strategy and identity. He's the most heavily tattooed person I've interviewed, and he literally traveled across the world to Australia to get tattooed by one of his tattoo heroes—RESPECT. After growing up with computer games, doing kickflips, and helping his grandfather tap trees for maple syrup, he studied graphic design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. After college, he found himself working in corporate packaging design, and a year later, he took a calculated risk by leaving his full-time job for a design internship at Sussner, a branding firm in Minneapolis. Like us, Blake's been through burnout, low-paying gigs, and he's sacrificed more of himself along the way than he realized. Thankfully, he has a portfolio of strategic design work that helps offset those sacrifices. Blake's stepfather is a tattoo artist, so tattoos have always been a part of his life, and they are quite literally THE reason he pursued graphic design—more on that in the interview. Tune in for a talk about Crop Conference, the benefits of using Framer vs. Squarespace to build your portfolio, takeaways from designing brand identities for private clubs and golf courses, and the story behind a logo he designed for a former mobster. Follow Blake on Instagram @blakespiegel and check out his Framer website spiegeldesign.co. "Deep down, we're all just a bunch of bones. What really makes us different is what we do with them." Questions for this interview. Have you ever been to a design conference?What're you hoping Crop Conference will be like, and what do you want to get out of the experience?Which National Park was the highlight of the 4,000-mile road trip a few years ago?During your junior year of high school, your dad said something that changed your career path. Can you tell us what your dad said that day, why you trusted his advice, and why you haven't regretted it since?Why do you look up to Sam Clark? Then, can you share the story of meeting him, and tell us what you made for him?You made the jump from Squarespace to Framer. Can you talk about the learning curve, why you made the switch, and the advantages of using Framer over Squarespace?What is visual rhyming? Can you explain what you mean by that?Looking back, how did you grow beyond low-paying gigs, and what advice would you give someone experiencing that right now?Can you give us an overview of your role at Sussner and talk about what you enjoyed most about working in the private club industry?\I read that the strategy and design for Thunderbird Country Club took 3 months. What did you do during those three months, and how did you balance honoring the club's past while creating its future?In general, what are some of your biggest takeaways from working at Sussner? Did you learn anything from Derek that you'll remember throughout the rest of your career?What do you wish you had learned in college that was missing, and what would you add to the program if you had that ability?You designed a logo for a former mobster, George "Cowboy" Martorano. What's the origin of that relationship? How did you get involved, and what can you tell us about George's story? ---If you LIKE what you hear, please subscribe and keep listening. Sharing this episode with someone is the best way to support the podcast. If you LOVE what you hear and want to help me keep the interviews coming—consider buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi.Also, I'm always looking for questions from listeners. If there's a burning question you want to hear answered on the podcast, please email it to me at studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.Follow @studentsofdesignpod on Instagram for updates, episode drops, and behind-the-scenes content.The music you hear on the podcast is Accident by Timothy Infinite and PUSH !T by Nbhd Nick.studentsofdesign.simplecast.com
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    1 ora e 7 min
  • Dora Drimalas – Curiosity in All Things, Object Quality, and Working for Nike – Ep46 – Ep46

    Dora Drimalas – Curiosity in All Things, Object Quality, and Working for Nike – Ep46 – Ep46
    Apr 10 2026
    Dora is the Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director of Hybrid Design in San Francisco, and the Co-Founder of Super7. Over the past 25 years, her studio has worked with some of the most recognizable brands on the planet, including Nike, Apple, Google, YouTube, LEGO, Amazon, TED Conference, The North Face, and many more. Interesting, it all almost didn't happen because she originally chose to study film instead of design at The University of North Texas. Luckily, she met her husband Brian, was exposed to the world of graphic design, and switched her major. I'm glad she did, or else I wouldn't be holding a copy of her studio's monograph, Hybrid: Curiosity in All Things. It's an absolutely beautiful book, filled with amazing work, insights, behind-the-scenes content, and the purpose and inspiration behind everything they do. It's so packed with thoughtful material that it made the interview prep MORE difficult, not easier, because there's SO much amazing work to discuss. Dora has many influences, like Charles and Ray Eames, punk rock, Swiss design, Star Wars, and so much more. Hell, she even listens to Slayer while driving her kids to school, lol. However, one of my favorite things about Dora is that her approach to creativity and her work sits at the intersection of design, content, and culture, guided by the belief that curiosity and play are essential tools for solving real business problems. Tune in for a talk about collecting junk mail, why curiosity is an organizing principle for Hybrid, grid "mathemagic", and why working for Nike in the mid-90s was such a special time in her career. Follow Hybrid Design on IG @hybriddesignsf, and check out more of their work on their website hybrid-design.com, and buy a copy of Hybrid: Curiosity in All Things from viction:ary or your local bookstore. "All projects change. All projects are fluid. All problems are different. Asking questions is the only way forward." Questions for this interview. Can you tell us the story about saving all your junk mail before meeting with the CEO of The North Face for the first time?Can you shed some light on the planning process for The North Face printed catalogs and discuss some of the considerations your team had to make before stepping onto a photoshoot set?Why is curiosity an organizing principle for Hybrid Design, and how does curiosity show up in your studio and the work you do?What were Hybrid's internal conversations like about the destructive nature of the perforated pull-tab on the front cover of the Mohawk Maker Quarterly #13?Do you struggle with feeling like every new thing you make has to be better than the last thing you made? If so, how do you manage those feelings and keep them from becoming a distraction?Can you explain "Grid Mathemagic" and give us your best PSA for grid systems?Can you tell us what Object Quality means, and explain why we would do better to think of our print work as object design?Why was your time at Nike so special, and how did working there during that specific time shape the creative person you've become?What's the difference between a campaign that simply solves a problem and one that stops us in our tracks?How can we connect inspiration to our work, and how do we leverage it to strengthen it?What happens if we loosen our grip and share creativity instead of trying to own it?Which aspect of the business of design were you awful at 24 years ago, but great at today? ---If you LIKE what you hear, please subscribe and keep listening. Sharing this episode with someone is the best way to support the podcast. If you LOVE what you hear and want to help me keep the interviews coming—consider buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi.Also, I'm always looking for questions from listeners. If there's a burning question you want to hear answered on the podcast, please email it to me at studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.Follow @studentsofdesignpod on Instagram for updates, episode drops, and behind-the-scenes content.The music you hear on the podcast is Accident by Timothy Infinite and PUSH !T by Nbhd Nick.studentsofdesign.simplecast.com
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    59 min
  • Martina Flor – The Lettering Design Roadmap, Building Your Email List, and Typostammtisch – Ep45

    Martina Flor – The Lettering Design Roadmap, Building Your Email List, and Typostammtisch – Ep45
    Mar 16 2026
    Martina Flor is an award-winning lettering artist, author, and educator living in Berlin. She also hosts the Open Studio podcast with over 200 episodes, and she's spoken at over 70 conferences across the globe, including TEDx, Adobe MAX, TypeCon, and many others. She's a lettering POWERHOUSE and has helped thousands of creative entrepreneurs become lettering artists and take their creative businesses to the next level. However, she wasn't always the super-confident person she is today, and it's taken her over a decade to fine-tune her creative business. Way before specializing in lettering, she was a creative director, but eventually hit a breaking point and needed a change in her life. So, she moved to the Netherlands to study type design at the Royal Academy of Art, and moved to Berlin after graduating. There, she started calling herself a lettering artist, joined a group of typographic aficionados, opened her lettering studio, and hasn't looked back since. Martina's an avid reader; in fact, she's written many of her own books, like The Golden Secrets of Lettering, The Big Leap, and Make It! Her favorite letter to draw is "M," and she can tell you all about the 3 main groups of letters: rectangular, rounded, and triangular. Like so many of us, she thrives within constraints and believes that no brief is the worst brief. Tune in for a talk about why an email list is the most powerful asset for a creative business, how trying to become Ken Barber helped her discover herself, and why printing a set of new business cards changed her life. Follow Martina on Instagram @martinaflor, download free lettering resources on her website: martinaflor.com, and sign up for her FREE annual workshop series, The Lettering Design Roadmap, at martinaflor.com/masterclass. "If not now, then when?" Questions for this interview. Can you tell us about your Free Live Workshop Series, The Lettering Design Roadmap, and talk about how that series is different from your signature course, The Lettering Seminar?How can someone who considers themselves a graphic design generalist benefit from learning how to draw letterforms?Can you give us a better understanding of your revenue streams and, if possible, a rough percentage breakdown of the overall income they each contribute?Will you explain the importance of an email list and talk about how you use your list to support your business?So, considering lettering didn’t have the following and support it has today, how much pressure did you feel to create lettering that met the typographic community's standards in Berlin?Why did Ken Barber's workshop make such an impact on you, and what can you remember about his visit?Where does your confidence and positivity come from?You saw your mom become a successful teacher and school principal. How does it feel knowing your kids have a similar opportunity because they can see you’ve built a successful lettering business?How can someone use the four cardinal directions to improve the balance of their lettering compositions?Where does readability fall on your priority list when you’re lettering or drawing letterforms?How did something as simple as printing a new set of business cards change the way you felt about yourself? ---If you LIKE what you hear, please subscribe and keep listening. Sharing this episode with someone is the best way to support the podcast. If you LOVE what you hear and want to help me keep the interviews coming—consider buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi.Also, I'm always looking for questions from listeners. If there's a burning question you want to hear answered on the podcast, please email it to me at studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.Follow @studentsofdesignpod on Instagram for updates, episode drops, and behind-the-scenes content.The music you hear on the podcast is Accident by Timothy Infinite and PUSH !T by Nbhd Nick.studentsofdesign.simplecast.com
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    1 ora e 11 min
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