http://designchat.info Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:07:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://designchat.info/dc_56-terry-marks/ http://designchat.info/dc_56-terry-marks/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:40:57 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://m.podshow.com/media/23477/episodes/247395/designchat-247395-09-05-2010.m4v Terry Marks, founder of TMARKS joins us from Seattle and shares his valuable insight on the business of design. Terry discusses what it's like starting a business, what keeps him going and why good design is so important. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/dc_56-terry-marks/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/dc_55-debbie-millman/ http://designchat.info/dc_55-debbie-millman/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:35:51 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://m.podshow.com/media/23477/episodes/247204/designchat-247204-09-03-2010.m4v Debbie Millman, AIGA national president, partner at Sterling Brands and creator of Design Matters, takes some time to visit with the DesignChat community. She discusses how she got started in the business, what it's like being the president of AIGA and her plans for the future of Design Matters. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/dc_55-debbie-millman/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/dc-guest-quite-strong/ http://designchat.info/dc-guest-quite-strong/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:13:15 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=2192 This week DesignChat welcomes the design collective Quite Strong to the conversation. They're made up of 5 strong-minded women in Chicago who have combined forces to rule the design world. I'm not sure how this conversation is going to go between myself and five freaking guests, but its sure to be a little nuts. There was some talk about doing this game-show style, but who knows. The ladies assured me they have 'visuals' to present on Wednesday night, so if you're alive and have an internet connection, you pretty much don't have any excuse to miss this. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/dc-guest-quite-strong/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/5-hours-of-power/ http://designchat.info/5-hours-of-power/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:34:04 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1918 Wednesday is shaping up to be a very special day for creatives. 3 of my previous guests, Fabio Sasso of Abduzeedo, Nick Campbell, AKA The Greyscale Gorilla, and James White of Signal Noise are doing live shows of their own now, in addition to myself and Justin Maller. I am super proud of all of these guys for everything that they're doing in the creative space, and I hope this is a trend that continues. We won't see this combination every week, but I'm sure we'll have repeat performances from time to time. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/5-hours-of-power/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/dc-guest-erin-loechner/ http://designchat.info/dc-guest-erin-loechner/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:49:17 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1873 This week, Erin Loechner welcomes US to the conversation. Erin is a freelance design writer/blogger whose work has been featured in Glamour, Dwell, Lucky and Nylon magazines. She muses daily on her award-winning website Design For Mankind, founded in 2007 in an attempt to bring light to today’s creative design culture. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/dc-guest-erin-loechner/feed/ 2 http://designchat.info/new-type-design-degree/ http://designchat.info/new-type-design-degree/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:28:09 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1760 Something that is both wonderful and surprising will happen in October. Students at the Cooper Union in New York will attend classes as part of a new masters degree program in typeface design called Type@Cooper. The wonderful part is that its happening at all; the surprising part is that its the first of its kind in the United States. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/new-type-design-degree/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/dc-guest-samatamason/ http://designchat.info/dc-guest-samatamason/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:01:57 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1787 This week on DesignChat we're speaking to 2 of the partners from SamataMason, a heavily decorated design firm in West Dundee Illinois. If that name sounds familiar, its because I say it every week on the show. SamataMason is where I broadcast from, and they have been great supporters of DesignChat and what we are trying to accomplish. Dave Mason and Kevin Krueger are going to take us through the history of their shop, and also what motivated them to start one of the most intriguing design conferences today, Cusp. More…]]> http://designchat.info/dc-guest-samatamason/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/illustrate-for-flas/ http://designchat.info/illustrate-for-flas/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:17:37 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1532 Last week I was told I had to take a print ad that I designed and develop it into a flash web banner. No biggie, right? The only catch was that the final file size limit was 25kb. Ouch! The ad was heavy on photography, so I knew I had to illustrate every visual so that the artwork was completely vector-based. It doesn't matter how many times I've done this, I'm always daunted by the idea of illustrating for the web with the goal of photo-realism. 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MORE… ]]> http://designchat.info/dc-guest-steve-hartman/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/dc53-grip-design/ http://designchat.info/dc53-grip-design/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:04:55 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1219 Kevin McConkey, principal of Grip Design in Chicago fakes getting a call from Debbie Millman, tries to get me to belive he designed comic sans, admits one of his clients is a brewery and he drinks his profits, and then claims he did the whole chat with his pants off. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/dc53-grip-design/feed/ 0