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.
Here’s the line-up:
• 2pm EST: Justin Maller – Transmission – Tune in
• 3pm EST: Nick Campbell – GSG Live Cast – Tune in
• 4pm EST: James White – Signalnoise Broadcast – Tune in
• 5pm EST: Fabio Sasso – Abduzeedo Broadcast – Tune in
• 9pm EST: Design Chat with Ryan McGovern – Tune in
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. Check out their site and follow Grip Design on Twitter .
Out of Miami, founder of Elastic People Jose Perez survives two power outages to hang out with DesignChatters. While doing so, he reveals that his group is releasing a new music video in 3D and shares his insights about the influence of digital on the latin music industry.
Jonnie Hallman, creator of DestroyFlicker, DestroyTwitter and countless other apps shares with us his insights on the intersection of development and design, and his new venture with Adobe.
Nicholas Felton chats as he goes pro for the second time. Once as a graphic designer, and now designing statistics. Ryan probes into Nicholas’ involvement with Daytum, a simple application that intersects usability and statistics, and the role it has in tracking nuances of daily life.
Project H stops in to chat. They are at week five of their Design Revolution Road Show pulling a vintage Airstream filled with products designed around humanitarian needs. Emily and Matt talk about the trip thus far from within the Airstream, highlighting a few products and looking towards the future. This is one to watch.
Ryan takes on Chicago-based studio Plural Design. Founders Renata Graw and Jerimiah Chiu chat it up about the challenges and successes of being small, new, and honest. Plural stresses to stay experiential continually finding the energy to draw type, produce imagery, and bring personal projects into the studio. By way of collaborative nature they produce a diverse range of work with close ties to the studio’s vision.
Recent president of AIGA National and partner of AdamsMorioka Sean Adams visits with the design community to talk about his studio’s work and how happy he is with Debbie Millman’s transition to the presidency. Also, we take our first video questions from the audience!
Emerging typographic superstar Luke Williams tells about his recent entry in the Chicago-based TYPEFORCE show, and what life is like working at a big agency. Our conversation is cut a bit short by some technical difficulty, so I show some of our pre-show chatter.
User interface blogger and designer Whitney Hess and I have a great time drinking beers and chatting about her adventures. She tells us that the best UX job in the world right now is designing for the iPad, and why she thinks it should be waterproof.
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