Design Recharge

Episode 242. Aired on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kim Panella and I have been scheming about a way to appreciate, encourage, and build stronger connections within the design community. We are going to do five giveaways at the end of the month but will choose a winner each week. I explain this in the video. So love on some designers this month and take one week out for you to show some love to yourself. Here are the prompts for each week, try and do one of these prompts per week. Snap a photo and use the hashtag #loveondesigners when you post it. Week 1: ENERGIZE Bring coffee or other energizing snack or beverage to a friend or colleague at their office. Meet someone for an energizing lunch or beverage break. Pay for a stranger's coffee. Get a Coffee Pod sticker set and surprise someone with a coffee and a message of love. Post an energizing quote and tag a friend who could use some energizing (remember to use the #loveondesigners tag) Week 2: ENCOURAGE Create a post and share an encouraging word on soci

Episode 241. Aired on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Have you ever wanted to focus on a certain area of design, but don’t know how to get started? Or have you enjoyed an area but not really known how to start incorporating it into your offerings? Well if you have said yes then this episode is for you. This week we will be talking to my friend Corrina Reff. Corrina started blowing me away with her daily hand-lettering project. But after talking to her, I realized this was just part of her wonder. She was killing it in the branding realm and her hand lettering was an area she wanted to create more specialized branding in. She is REALLY smart and so nice and creative. She has a partner and they have an interesting business structure as well which we will dig into. She is also a new mom and still finds time to learn a new skill and improve on her craft. I can’t wait for this conversation. Literally overtime we talk, she blows me away. I am excited to have my friend Corrina (long time listener) on the show this we

Episode 240. Aired on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 These days growing my business and starting my illustration journey are constantly on my mind. As I search for this clarity of purpose I am lucky to talk to someone who is ahead of me on this journey. This week I am talking to someone I really look up to, my friend, Dylan Menges. He is a true inspiration to me, both business-wise and spiritually. We will dig into how he went out on his own in Sept 2015 and how he uncovered what he was meant to be doing with his life, talent, and time. Dylan is an amazingly talented letterer and illustrator. He deals with the same things we all deal with, like fear of the blank page, the punishing self-talk that holds us all back. We will talk about breaking through all this and building Menges Design with his wife, Janet. Follow Dylan at: www.menges.design www.instagram.com/mengesdesign www.twitter.com/mengesdesign For full show notes go to: https://rechargingyou.com/2018/01/07/dylan-menges-understanding-your-calling/ .

Episode 239. Aired on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. Illustration is on my brain, along with new goals and skills I want to master (well get better at). This week I am so excited to have one of my former students on the show this week. This designer has exploded since graduating. This week’s guest is Nick Brito. Nick graduated a few years ago but blossomed after graduation due to a self-imposed project. He has grown and continues to grow and set goals for himself and his career. Nick is going to share some of his secrets to keeping at it and share his illustration journey with us. We will talk about setting goals for 2018, illustrator tips, and building a digital product to sell on Creative Market. I hope you will join us for the FIRST Design Recharge of 2018. Follow Nick at: Dribble: https://dribbble.com/nickbrito Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick.brito/ For full show notes go to: https://rechargingyou.com/2017/12/31/nick-brito-working-towards-a-goal/ Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyo

Episode 238. Aired on December 6, 2017 Want to learn some tips about illustrating details with chalk? Well my guest this week is my good friend, Kim Panella. She will be sharing all kinds of detail tips and tips on chalk illustration and lettering. Kim has an inspiring story of perseverance and she is one of the coolest people I know. Her humility and desire to learn are infectious. I hope you will join us for the LAST Design Recharge of 2017. Kim and I will also talk about our goals for the new year. Have you started thinking about your goals for 2018? Show Notes & Ways to Follow Kim: http://www.kimpanella.com/tools/ Subscribe for a chance to win! http://www.kimpanella.com/designrecharge My site www.KimPanella.com Facebook www.facebook.com/kimpanellaart Instagram @KimPanella Twitter @KimPanella Behance @KimPanella Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com Become a part of the Design Recharge

Episode 237. Aired November 22, 2017 This week's guest is Austin Saylor a motion designer with a love for animating lettering. We will chat about his new course, Animating Lettering which opened on Monday, Nov 20. We will learn what is in the course and how it will help us in our business. Tune in live on Wednesday, November 22 at 2:30pm ET / 11:30amPT. Follow Austin at: www.austinsaylor.com www.letteringanimation.com www.twitter.com/itsaustinsaylor http://www.instagram.com/itsaustinsaylor Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com Become a part of the Design Recharge Family and get access to the interviews each week. Sign up at http://www.rechargingyou.com

Episode 236. Aired on November 15, 2017 Do you work InHouse? There are positives and negatives to it. This week’s guest, Andrew Berkemeyer works InHouse at Woods Coffee in Bellingham Washington. He started his career as a designer on a small InHouse team and has been able to find his rhythm working for companies on their InHouse teams. Come with some questions about working InHouse and find out what Andrew has been doing in his free time. Follow Andrew at: Dribbble.com: dribbble.com/vibrantimpact Instagram: www.instragram.com/andrewberk Facebook: www.facebook.com/vanandrewmusic Music: www.vanandrewmusic.com

Episode 235. Aired on November 8, 2017 Have you ever wanted to change up your style? Or get better at something in a fairly quick amount of time? Well it all takes time. Meena Khalili has been a regular guest on the show and I am stoked to have her back. Meena is an illustrator, and design professor who is has one hand in the digital world and one hand in the physical world. She will be talking about her 365 project that transformed her style and has turned into a traveling show. Find out why she got started, what tools she takes with her, how long each sketch takes, and how her style has morphed since beginning this 365 challenge. Follow and connect with Meena: her site: meenakhalili.com (direct link to purchase prints from material print shop: materialprintshop.com/store/meena-khalili) dribbble: dribbble.com/meenakhalili instagram for New in LOU: instagram.com/newinlou365 instagram for Meena: instagram.com/meenakhalili twitter: twitter.com/meenakhalili Find more great episodes at

Episode 233. Airs on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT / 5:30pm in the UK. You may know Tom Ross from his start-up, Design Cuts, a source for great deals on digital design products and bundles. Tom is a new friend I was introduced to through Dustin Lee but I feel like I have known him for about six months because I have been listening to the Honest Designers Show every week since it started. I am a huge fan of the show and Tom. Tom is the founder of Design Cuts and is a whiz at building, authentic, long-term relationships with people in the industry. Thursday we will be talking about how he has done that and why it has been critical to his success and the success of Design Cuts. Follow Tom at: www.designcuts.com www.honestdesigners.com www.instagram.com/tomrossmedia Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com

Episode 232. Aired on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Matt and I will continue our conversation about branding and how he decides when to create hand drawn typographic marks vs computer-generated symbols and how he does that. Join us for the LIVE show and see what I mean about his versatility and how he has continued to grow over the years. We will also get to see some more of his amazing wave illustrations. Follow Matt at: Web: VERG.COM.AU Instagram: @MATTVERGOTIS FB: @MATTVERG Twitter: @MATTVERGOTIS Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com

Episode 231. Aired on October 10, 2017 This week I am excited to have my friend, Matt Vergotis on the show. Matt is an incredible designer and a passionate lettering artist. He has clients from all over the globe. His branding clients show his versatility. He loves working by hand first and has a great eye for business, keeping grounded, and we will dig into what he does to keep his name and work on the forefront. There will most definitely be some surfing analogies. Follow Matt at: Web: VERG.COM.AU Instagram: @MATTVERGOTIS FB: @MATTVERG Twitter: @MATTVERGOTIS Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com To find full show notes with links please go to: https://rechargingyou.com/2017/10/07/matt-vergotis-versatile-flexible/

Episode 230. Aired on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 This week I am excited to have my friend David O’Hara on the show. David has changed from a visual designer to a user experience designer. He has moved without a job, he has struggled but then excelled. David doesn’t give up, even when life has thrown him lemons. David’s attitude especially when he was looking for work is inspiring. He has a great philosophy for networking and we will hear about that. Follow David at: 50 States - 50StatesSupply.com Portfolio - davidpohara.com Dribbble - dribbble.com/davidpohara facebook - facebook.com/davidpohara instagram - @davidpohara twitter - @davidpohara linkedin - linkedin.com/in/davidpohara/ email - david@davidpohara.com Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com Become a part of the Design Recharge Family and get access to the interviews each week. Sign up at http://www.rechargingyou.com

Episode 229. Aired on September 27, 2017 at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT This week I am excited to have Erik Reagan on the show. Erik was on a panel at Creative South the first year I attended it and I was blown away by the panel and have followed him and FocusLab ever since. Maybe you are like me and want to scale your business or get in a place where scaling is an option, but really don’t know where to begin. I have known I wanted to scale my business but have not had the guts or knowledge to know how to do it successfully. And those are some of the secrets that Erik will be sharing with us. Erik is also going to share how his faith has influenced his decisions and helped as the business has grown. Check out Erik at: https://www.instagram.com/focuslabllc/ http://focuslabllc.com/ erik@focuslabllc.com https://madebysidecar.com/journal/pricing-hourly-rates-vs-fixed-prices Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargin

Episode 228. Aired September 23, 2017 This week I am excited to have Winston Scully on the show. I have been following Winston since he graduated and maybe before. He is super passionate about learning and type, and about growth and challenging himself. He has pushed himself to go move to a new place, dive head first into intense learning, and start a type foundry with a friend (Scott Biersack). Winston works a full-time gig where his strengths in lettering and typography are used daily, he is active in the San Francisco community (on Saturday, he is competing in TYPE JAM), and he has a life. Let’s find out how he balances all this and advice he has for us about keeping up. Find Winston online at: wscully.com instagram: @wscully Twitter: @winstonscully https://continentaltype.co/ For Full Show Notes visit: https://rechargingyou.com/2017/09/18/winston-scully-a-passion-for-type/ Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [a

Episode 227. Aired September, 13, 2017. This week I am going to talk to you about Customer Service and how you treat your clients. I am going to share an epiphany I had last week in regards how I treat my clients and what I can do better. It wasn't a positive. I have been leaving a ton of money and relationships in a place I am not proud of, but didn't realize it until... My analogy this week is about NAPKINS... that is right, Napkins. You are probably thinking I have completely lost it. But hopefully once I explain to you the analogy you will get it and every time you get (or don't get) napkins at the drive through you will think of what you can do to serve your customers better. Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com Become a part of the Design Recharge Family and get access to the interviews each week. Sign up at http://www.rechargingyou.com

Episode 226. Aired on September 6, 2017 This week I am excited to have Alex Lazaris on the show. I started out being impressed by Alex’s designs and his creative eye, but the more I learned about him the more inspired I became. He is not only a talented designer, but he is also leading a creative team, and finds time to encourage and mentor other creatives. Alex and I will talk about how what other people told him he couldn’t do, actually fueled him to do the best work possible along with never wanting anyone to feel the same way. Because of some early discouragement, Alex is passionate about being a champion for other designers. Alex likes to push his limits out of the office too, and is a long board skateboard racer. Not only does Alex dives head first into new challenges at work but he has learned to not let fear hold him back. He has learned to embrace change and expect failure. His story will inspire you to push yourself. Which is exactly what I need this week. #facingfear #designthinking #designme

Episode 225. Aired August 30, 2017. This week I am proud to have my friend and long-time Design Recharge family member back on the show to talk about fear and empathy. We will talk about not feeling like you belong, and understanding how as designers we are communicators. That means we are sales people, we are motivators, we are educators, and information transmitters. We have a purpose and it is inner-woven into all business, that purpose is to get in the shoes of our client’s customers. Joe and I will talk about how fear sets us back and if we look at fear as a friend with something new to teach us it becomes less scary and more exciting. I will find out where Joe has found courage in different times of his life and how he has learned to harness his strengths for the benefit of his clients and colleagues. Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com Become a part of the Design Recharge Family and get acce

Aired on August 23, 2017 Episode 224 This week is a Rapid Recharge and we are recapping WMC Fest 8. You will get to hear the talk I gave and understand why I think designers are beavers. I was blessed to have friends in the first two rows who whooped it up for me and laughed at all my jokes. The people at Weapons of Mass Creation (WMC Fest) were incredible. Cleveland was a terrific city and I got to hang out with new and old friends. Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com Become a part of the Design Recharge Family and get access to the interviews each week. Sign up at http://www.rechargingyou.com

Episode 223 This week's guest is T.J. Harley. T.J. got his start working in a t-shirt shop while going to college at Clemson University. He worked whenever he didn’t have class and got a chance to learn and use Illustrator. After graduation T.J. got his start in the sports industry and began working for The Collegiate Licensing Company in Atlanta, now IMG College. He worked at IMG for almost 11 years and now runs Harley Creative focusing on the sports and entertainment industries. T.J. has met people within the industry and works on retainer for many of his clients. He has a love for branding but does it all from web design to publication design. Follow T.J.: Harley-Creative.com IG: @tj_harley @harleycreative Twitter: @tj_harley @harley_creative Dribbble: harleycreative Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com Become a part of the Design Recharge Family and get access to the interviews each week. Si

Episode 222 This week's guest is Mackenzie Hill. She is a project leader and keeps multiple projects running smoothly. Mackenzie has some tips on client interaction and designer to developer communication. We will learn the tools she uses to make working so much easier. If you are trying to wear multiple hats this is the episode for you, because we will look into the industry from another (very organized) perspective. Want to get more organized? Want to know some tools you can use to help your work flow be efficient then don't miss this episode. Connect with Mackenzie at mackenzie@whiteboard.is or on twitter at @oh_mackenziee or on instagram at @ohmackenziee. Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Or email me at diane [at] rechargingyou.com