HeyJaredKilled In Concept
A true crime podcast for creatives... where the victims are brilliant ideas, the weapons are “just one more revision,” and the crime scenes are littered with mood boards, wireframes, and unpaid emotional labor.
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Killed in Concept Ep. 8: The Best Logo We Ever Designed Got Rejected (opens the original)
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Every creative has 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺. In this episode of 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁, the team revisits one of the most painful murders in agency history: a vibrant, fully realized education brand identity that everyone internally believed was the 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱… only for the client to reject it completely. From preschool-inspired building blocks and animated logos to fully developed brand systems and emotional presentation pitches, this episode explores the brutal reality tha
Killed in Concept Ep. 7: The Client Replaced the Brand Strategy with AI (opens the original)
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A 30-year-old company hires an agency to modernize its brand. The discovery process goes well. The strategy is thoughtful. The rebrand is respectful. Then AI enters the chat. In this episode of 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁, we investigate the slow collapse of a carefully crafted brand system after internal teams started feeding logos, assets, and prompts into AI tools — producing content that technically worked… but quietly dismantled years of strategic thinking. This isn’t just a story about bad design. I
Killed in Concept Ep. 6: The Lawyer Never Showed Up… But Still Killed the Project (opens the original)
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What happens when you spend months building content, websites, and strategy… for someone you’ve never actually met? In this episode of 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁, we investigate the bizarre case of a law firm project where the real decision-maker stayed hidden the entire time — communicating only through a spouse, admin staff, and vague secondhand feedback. From website copy and social media management to mysterious no-show meetings and a bridge replacing the homepage hero image, this episode unpacks the
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