Designer or Artist in a Digital World

Real talk, few days pass without me hearing of someone being upset about a "friend" or finding out that someone grew a huge insecurity  because of "friends". As someone who is fairly selective for originally very different reasons, it often confuses me what people consider as friendship and what not. And while quite frankly I don't care how you live your life in that aspect, I want to lay out a couple of thoughts in hopes that it fosters more quality friendships and frees people from unnecessary shackles. Man, I just want more people to enjoy great friendships!!

To my surprise a lot of people actually hesitate to compliment artists or had a bad experience doing so – and vice versa lots of artists receive comments that may be well intentioned, but do more harm than good. With this episode I'll try to give you some guidance – what to avoid and what always works, so you can give out great compliments that are encouraging and kind :) afterall, as much as artists make art for themselves, a little confidence boost is always good and helps bring more art into the world.

I turned 25 just a couple months ago. For some that seems young, for others impossibly long – regardless, 25 is not nothing! And I thought I might share what I've learned in a quarter of a hundred years of existing. I tried to choose such, that aren't too common (at least not to me) and I will touch on how to deal with feeling bad about others and mostly inner peace, in the most realistic sense. A lot of these things rid me of a lot of unnecessary energy spent on being a little, bitter jerk. It's good. Try it :)

Did you know there are logos being made for anywhere from 0 to $1,280,000,000 ? Usually they hover around a couple thousands, but how come there is such a huge discrepancy? Is it fair? Are brand designers being awfully oevrpaid oder underpaid? As mystifying as this topic seems, it's actually pretty straight forward, once you know what a logo does and what it takes to make it and more importantly: how it affects your sales. This episode is a brief detour into logo/brand design to hopefully make things a little clearer for you.

To kick off this new season let's start with something light and sweet – 3 things that make me happy and maybe they will make you, too! I'll touch on petting animals, coming up with new funky words and the way music is just...amazing.

Do you feel like your zodiac sign matches you? I found that there is quite a discrepancy between how signs are depicted versus the people that I meet. But still I thoroughly enjoy zodiac memes and I have learned incredibly important things from astrology. I think what you can learn from it is akin to what science can learn from science-fiction. So let me explain to you why I would never make decisions based off of astrology, yet still learn my lessons from it.

I get these questions a lot: how do I know if I should study design or art? Will you be able to make a living with design? Do you need to know maths for design? So today I'm making a podcast episode to explain all of that. So even if it's not you, who's interested, you'll be able to answer that question next time someone asks you.

We seem to have accepted that we are constantly being listened to and that we pay for free services by offering our data. Privacy concerns used to make big waves, what happened? I've been thinking about what privacy actually means to us and finally realised what it actually is, that we need to protect.

When was the last time you enjoyed an ad? Thought it was really cool? Probably been a while, if you can remember at all. Advertising has been striking me as more and more of a lost cause these years, but I feel like there's one way to bring it back in a way, that even grumpy and sceptical consumers like me would enjoy.

Making art is not just about improving technical skills like color theory, anatomy, value studies, etc. but a lot happens in your mind, too. We rarely ever talk about the mental well-being and skills of artists, which I think is detrimental to our progress. I've gathered ten skills, that have nothing to do with your hand eye coordination and everything to do with how you carry yourself as an artist without losing your mind over anxiety and insecurity. Also some other tips, but you'll hear about them soon enough.