HeyJaredCreative Legends
A raw, honest, and inspiring podcast where creative professionals share the real side of being a creative professional—the wins, the fails, and design tales.
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Are design influencers ruining the industry? (opens the original)
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This week, we're getting into the uncomfortable conversation you have to have with yourself when promoting your business on social media. The line between marketing yourself as a designer and becoming a design influencer.
Design client red flags (opens the original)
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This week, we’re talking about the red flags we look for before agreeing to work with a new design client. Finding clients is one thing. Finding the right clients... well that's a whole other story. After years of working freelance, running our own studios and making plenty of mistakes along the way, we’ve both developed a pretty good radar for the little signs that can tell you whether a project is going to be brilliant… or an absolute nightmare.
Being a good brand designer isn't enough anymore (opens the original)
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This week, we’re talking about everything it takes to run a successful creative business that has absolutely nothing to do with being good at design. We share the skills, traits and ugly lessons we’ve picked up while building our own independent studios. We get into: 👉 Why being a great designer doesn’t automatically mean you’ll run a great design business 👉 The sacrifices we’ve made to build our studios 👉 Why sometimes you have to put the pencil down and think like a business owner 👉 How your e
Designing A Retro-Futurist Brand (opens the original)
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This week, we’re continuing the case study series with a look behind the scenes of Jack’s latest brand identity project for Verdex - a premium all-wheel-drive robotic mower.Rather than leaning into the same overly technical, futuristic visual language used by much of the industry, Jack took a completely different approach: retrofuturism.We get into:👉 How retrofuturism became the central creative direction for Verdex👉 How Jack developed a logo around slopes, freshly mown grass and the letter V👉 T
I Deliberately Designed a Boring Logo (opens the original)
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This week, we’re doing something a little different and taking you properly behind the scenes of a real brand identity project.CJ breaks down the identity he created for Anti-Boring Content Club, a Berlin-based influencer marketing agency built around one very simple belief: most branded content is boring, predictable and completely forgettable.We get into:👉 How CJ approached designing for a brand with an extremely long name👉 Why the logo was deliberately designed to feel boring at first👉 How th
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