Amy Parker is the Executive Design Director at Woods Creative. Amy runs Woods’ Portland, Maine studio where she leads creative strategy, ideation, and digital design to make communication solutions, digital products, and visual languages for brands. Amy works in tandem with her research partner, Chris Bransfield, to conduct primary one-on-one interviews for design and Human Experience/User Experience research to gain insight, understand nuanced problems, ask questions, and uncover findings to...

Joanna Mahoney, an in-house graphic designer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. For the majority of 2020, she and her team worked hard to produce meaningful digital content for Museum members and visitors to engage with from the comfort of their homes. Mahoney is also known for her impressive talents in motion graphics, illustration, and hand-lettering art. Before completing her master's degree in Graphic Design at Suffolk University, Mahoney earned her undergraduate degree...

For this week's episode, we are pleased to welcome Aneesh Borah to our show. Born and raised in India, Aneesh Borah has completed his study in the U.S., and now he is a UX/UI and Graphic Designer currently working for Pegasystems. To him, great design is all about its functionality where it can contribute to a greater good. His confidence and design thinking help shape his understanding about creativity in a thoughtful execution plan and research strategy. During our talk, you will learn...

Guest Description:Our guest for this week is Nicole D’Ambrosio. Nicole currently holds a Color Designer title at NOBULL, athletic footwear, apparel, and accessory brand. With the love for colors and being active, she has followed her dream to become a designer in the industrial and product design field, especially in the sports industry. Nicole has also acquired UX/UI design knowledge that gives her an insight into users' or clients’ minds when designing for them. Throughout our conversation,...

Guest Description:Erik Weikert is currently an Associate Creative Director at Pilot Studio, a creative agency focuses on bringing engaging strategies across branding, product, and marketing for a spectrum of client industries. Besides, he co-founded Bay State Design Shop, a New England design community (300+ members) where designers can ask questions, share thoughts, and offer constructive critiques on anything design-related. Throughout our conversation, Erik shares how vital it is to learn...

Guest Description:Every designer knows how challenging it is when first starting out their creative journey whether as a freelancer or a team member of an organization. Cody Johnston, a UX/UI designer, a branding expert, and a creative director, shares his experience and valuable lessons he has learned along the way in this guest episode. Our conversation ignites when Cody describes his design process that taps on many facets including solving problems for clients takes a collaborative effort...

Guest Description:Kristen Mallia is a multimedia artist, a graphic designer, and a college lecturer for Boston University, MassArt, Suffolk University and School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Kristen is also a founder of her own creative studio called Mallia Design where she consults creative advice and provides multiple design services to a wide range of clientele in the Greater Boston area. The Paris Bar + Creperie, The Stone Gallery at Boston University, and the Humanist Hub...

Guest Description:Joel Gendron is today’s guest on Pixel Perfect Talk. Joel is a graphic designer, based in Boston. As a kid, he loved to draw and make stuff. One day he found out a secret which was that people could get paid by designing stuff all day. As it played out, he became an official graphic designer. Joel got his graphic design degree from Suffolk University and has been teaching there for almost 7 years. While being an Illustrator master at Suffolk, he was also working for several...

Guest Description:John Potter is a web developer, salesman, and marketer. He’s done sales for EasyHire, Netto Logic, Kinderlime, and built websites for Everything Websites, and more. John is also a consultant for a bunch of startups with Tech Bramble and he also provides tools to help start-ups market themselves on AgoraAgora.io. During the time of coronavirus, he developed FindCovidJobs.com, which is a job board site that aims to help all the people who were laid off to find jobs during this...

Guest Description:Keith Kitz is a Program Director of the Master of Arts in Graphic Design at Suffolk University where he is also an Assistant Professor teaching Graphic Design. He is a founder of Keith Kitz Design, his own agency, where his high-profile and broad expertise in graphic design as well as creative direction, thrives in depth of conceptual and visual understanding. Keith got his Masters of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Boston University where he used to be a design lecturer....

We again take a deep dive into our process for the designs this week (8/17 - 8/20).  Even though the Instagram project will continue, we are putting this podcast on hold due to our series of creatives we have lined up. Design #102 - Cycle: https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_0kcCHluU/Design #103 - Autonomy: https://www.instagram.com/p/CECm7POH3zS/Design #104 - Democracy: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEFOhbnnawb/Design #105 - Loyalty + Talented: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHxxPOHdSx/ 

We celebrate our 100th design this week by making it Revision Week, where we make changes to designs we've already done. (8/10 - 8/13)Design #98 - Fatigue: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDt1RNJnrl2/ Design #99 - Space: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDwnaX1n3fA/Design #100 - Passion: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDy_oXenC_z/Design #101 - Process: https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1yIqjHMFU/ 

As we head into August, we discuss the design process of all 4 designs this week (8/3 - 8/6) Design #94 - Style: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbyBywn3LI/Design #95 - Daylight: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDedVJ5HAZg/Design #96 - Safety: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDg-OXHHK0a/Design #97 - Compassion: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjwV-HHkE2/

This past week was Mental Health Week and we discuss the design process of all 4 designs this week and we raise awareness to mental health (7/20 - 7/23) Design #90 - Stigma: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJvbA-HW-p/ Design #91 - Support: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMg5WrHOpf/  Design #92 - Break: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDO8BOenuqf/ Design #93 - Peace: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRsJnWHLEs/  

This week, we discuss the design process of all 4 designs this week (7/20 - 7/23) Design #86 - Youth: https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3u7-MH2cO/ Design #87 - Parasite: https://www.instagram.com/p/CC6bv2Wn_kK/ Design #88 - Pause: https://www.instagram.com/p/CC84Aj5nqz5/ Design #89 - Process: https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_n5BUHNUJ/

We try something slightly different this week. We cover the design process of all 4 designs this week (7/13 - 7/16) Design #82 - Glaser: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCltKConpSG/ Design #83 - Challenge: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCoeJ9ZHq8F/ Design #84 - Noise: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCq7p9bHkNV/ Design #85 - Space: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCtdq1tnUxx/

Andy and Brett discuss their process of making two of their pieces in the week of 7/6 - 7/9.  Design #80 - Life (Brett)https://www.instagram.com/p/CCYznClnlrw/ Design #81 - Distance (Andy)https://www.instagram.com/p/CCWVNxTnmjz/

This week we discuss posts from the weeks 6/29 - 7/3Design #74 by Brett with the word "Permanent": https://www.instagram.com/p/CCEbbywH-07/Design #75 by Andy with the word "Immigrants": https://www.instagram.com/p/CCHPhYgHhvJ/

This is our 11th week of doing it. Andy and Brett discuss their process of making two of their pieces in the week of 6/22 - 6/26. Freedom (Design #68) - Bretthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CBvygOknRf1/https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3pYGZgBSr/Future (Design #69) - Andyhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CByZJc7nwb0/

Andy talks about his design #63 while Brett talks about the design process behind Design #64  Design #63 - https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdt3OzHX6k/ (HAHAHA!)Design #64 - https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgW-hPnIP8/ (Unity) 

This week we discuss posts from the weeks 6/8-6/12Design #60 by Brett with the word "Community": https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQzKytnpg0/Design #59 by Andy with the word "Shift": https://www.instagram.com/p/CBOX-TJnkvJ/

We switch it up this week on our instagram page by designing words instead of quotes. This is from the week 6/1 - 6/5  Brett discusses this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8JgOJHp1e/Andy discusses this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-t9RmnaJ2/

Brett and Andy talk about two posts from their Instagram account, PixelPerfectTalk from the week 5/25 - 5/29. Design #50 which is based on a quote by Hafez and Design #51 which is based on a poem by Portia Nelson were the designs in discussion. 

This week we discuss quotes from Barack Obama and an anonymous soup label. Just shows you never know what will inspire you. From the instagram account @PixelPerfectTalk 5/18 - 5/22https://www.instagram.com/pixelperfecttalk/