This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Oce Eagan, Founder and Creative Director at Blind Tiger Design, a creative, strategy and marketing agency specializing in the unique needs of the craft food and beverage industry. We chat about how she started Blind Tiger, changes in the beverage market that are leading to exciting new opportunities past designing for beer, how they manage client expectations, changes they were forced to make do to COVID, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Bill Kenney, CEO of FocusLab. We chat about how FocusLab has evolved into a branding firm and what that means, the importance of communication at every stage of a project, we do a deep dive on branding, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Will Brown, Founder of InterApp an Augmented reality marketing platform. We talk about how InterApp utilizes traditional print design to create and augmented reality experience for your clients customers, building AR campaigns around demographics and geotargeting, working with designers to build product awareness and utilization, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Antionette Carroll from Creative Reaction Lab. We talk about accessibility issues—especially as they pertain to language barriers, addressing our biases and learning to overcome them, understanding that life is a journey and it’s our responsibility to learn and grow as humans, growing and sustaining Creative Reaction Lab, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Jeremy and Jordan Coon from Brethren Design Company. We talk about how they collaborate on work using Adobe Libraries as a way to share work back and forth, how they are able to be more selective with clients because the both work full time jobs, designing beer packaging, cannabis branding, designing for Guy Fieri, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Iquan Worthington from The Artoholiks about working with Black Live Matter to help unify the look of their designs, transitioning from running his agency full-time to working full-time for his client MochaFi and how he’s still able to maintain having a creative agency, what his design process looks like when working with clients, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design, I'm chatting with Hannah and Kayla from Good Snake. We dive into how they met, the long, winding path Hannah took to get into design, how they started working together, deciding on which clients they want to work with, what their process looks like when working with clients, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design I'm chatting with Savannah Glitschka. We chat about her love for manga and how that led her selling art at conventions, plus how it’s influenced everything from her illustration stye to the fashion she loves. We also get into how she uses references and influences from other cultures to help inform her character design, working with her dad, struggling with ADHD, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design I'm chatting with Michael Janda and Tom Ross from the Biz Buds Podcast. We talk about pivoting your client base during this challenging economy, overcoming introversion through positive self-talk and being authentic and true to yourself, researching places to network online and how to contribute to online networks to build your business, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design I'm chatting with Billy Baumann from Delicious Design League. During this episode we dive into how Delicious Design League got started and how it has evolved over the years, teaching packaging design at the Chicago Portfolio Center, how he approaches packaging design for the food and beverage industry by combining classic and modern styles, and so much more.

This week on Feasting on Design I'm chatting with Maurice Cherry, host of Revision Path. Revision Path is an award-winning weekly showcase of Black designers, developers, and digital creatives from all over the world. During the episode we dive into how Revision Path was added to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum of African American History and Culture, the current events surrounding race, how the podcast highlights race in the design world, and so much more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Dave Clayton, from Astute Graphics and Author of “How Do I Do That In InDesign?” We chat about his book, designing for the market not the owner, picking your design battles, imposter syndrome, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Nick van der Walle, founder of Astute Graphics. We chat about how he went from a background in design engineering to building a business around graphic design tools, why businesses like Astute Graphics moving to a subscription is a way that allows them to provide better service and innovate faster for their customers, the importance of continuing to learn and why companies should offer training opportunities to their employees, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Sean Ferguson. We chat about designing for the restaurant industry, how working with the test kitchen has led to him being able to take his creativity in another direction, revising the branding for a restaurant while maintaining the customers trust, there’s a ton of food talk, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Beth Stafford & Jeremy Slagle about their new children’s book Hip Hooray Hippo. We talk about what they learned from their first kickstarter campaign for Chin Up Chinchilla and how they’ve applied those lessons this time around, how their writing and illustrations evolved from the first book to this book, how they manage running their businesses in the midst of writing and illustrating a book and then manning the kickstarter campaign, plus a...

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Hrag Nassanian, a product designer and founder of Wayfinder, a product line of wallets, notebook holders and other soft goods. We chat about what makes designing for physical products different, his design process and how he works with clients, taking risks in life and how to move past the fear, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Prentice Howe, author of The Empowered Challenger Playbook and Principal at Door No. 3 in Austin, Texas. We chat about what makes a challenger brand, the importance of niching down by clarifying who you work with and how you work with them, developing a mind set that’s geared for change, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Matt Dawson, founder of Crop, a conference for designers and creatives. We chat about how’s he’s adjusting to the creative community in Austin after moving from Atlanta earlier this year, building Crop and how they are quite literally weathering the storm after a hurricane destroyed their plans for Crop cruise to celebrate the conference’s 5th anniversary, how they were able to rework the event to be held in Austin, during April 2022, making up...

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with The team from DesignXL, a new design conference in Pensacola, Florida this November. We talk about how the conference got started, the importance of building community, and why you should come to DesignXL, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Conor Brady, Chief Creative Officer for Critical Mass. We chat about working in the record industry and developing a reputation for being able to deal with difficult clients, how that skillset serves him now as a CCO, the growth of digital and the future of interaction design, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Kyle Courtright, Founder of Logowave. We chat about picking up and moving to Albuquerque shortly after college with no jo lined up, going to work in a non-design company while building his freelance business, finding business by cousin on the SEO on his website as a way to drive traffic to it, the how and why behind him starting Logowave, plus a whole lot more.

Today I’m talking with Roy Clarke, Bartender and General Manager at the Haberdasher, a craft cocktail bar in Mobile Alabama. Roy and I sit down over a beer and talk about designing a bar with everything from the décor and lighting to how the back bar is organized, how to create a balanced craft cocktail menu, and Mobile’s Tiki week – which is currently going on at Bars like the Haberdasher, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design, I’m talking with Magge Gagliardi, an educator and illustrator based out of Connecticut. We chat about balancing work & life while teaching at multiple universities and maintaining a professional practice, developing both a technical and conceptual style, and creating beer packaging for multiple brands, plus a whole lot more.

Today on Feasting on Design I’m talking with Taylor Cashdan, a Raleigh, North Carolina based design lead for Fidelity. We chat about transitioning into doing more digital design after working in traditional media while he was coming up, building design systems, how he discovered his addiction to stress after it lead to a heart condition and how he’s learned to manage stress since then, plus a whole lot more.