NewsOct 14, 2023

DesignThinkers Podcast

Written by Nicola Hamilton RGD, Issues Magazine Shop, and Ashley Tomlinson, Self Employed

Hosted by Nicola Hamilton RGD with branding, editing and coordination by Ashley Tomlinson Provisional RGD, the DesignThinkers podcast features conversations with speakers over the last 25 years of the conference as they discuss the experiences and ideas that have shaped their careers, and our event.

Episodes launch every Monday, with bonus episodes featuring past brand partners for the conference releasing on Wednesdays. Below, you'll find all the episodes featured on Apple, Spotify and Buzzsprout:

EPISODE 9: ERIN SAROFSKY

In this episode, Erin shares about the challenges of bouncing between our creative and business brain and about what it takes to build a sustainable creative business, (i.e. cash flow). With a wrap up by talking about The Skrimps, Erin’s adorable and hilarious AI-generated characters.

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BONUS EPISODE: MIKEY RICHARDSON & MIKE KELAR

Each year, RGD asks a different Canadian design agency or studio to tackle the conference identity. In these shorter episodes, We will be discussing with some of those folks—our past DesignThinkers Design Partners. In this episode, we chat with Mike Kelar and Mikey Richardson. Their titles are both Co-Founder and Co-ECD at Jacknife. In 2008, the year they were our Design Partner, Mike and Mikey were working as AmoebaCorp.

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EPISODE 6: FOREST YOUNG

In this episode, Forest shares about the past, present and future of design. We cover his comfort level as a speaker, the responsibility of designers working in innovative tech spaces, and what transitioning between agency and in-house environments has taught him about making work.

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BONUS EPISODE: JOHN FURNEAUX RGD

In this Bonus Episode of the DesignThinkers podcast, we hear from John Furneaux RGD on how he led his own firm, B3 Strategy and held executive positions at a handful of leading brand consultancies. His time at Karacters, who were our DesignThinkers Brand Partner in 2006.

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Bonus Episode : Featuring Vanessa Eckstein RGD

In this episode, Vanessa Eckstein RGD talks about early memories of what the design industry was before without widespread internet access and how ideas were shared when the blok design was a design partner for DesignThinkers 2002 and how she was involved with the conference since its very beginning.

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Nicola Hamilton RGD

Issues Magazine Shop

Nicola is an independent art director and graphic designer, who specializes in editorial design. She’s obsessed with magazines, so much so that she opened Issues Magazine Shop, a retailer of independent magazines in July 2022. Her work has been internationally recognized by the D&AD, the Society of Publication Designers and the National Magazine Awards, among others. Nicola is also the co-founder of The Scaries Project, an artistic exploration of the emotional realities of being creative, and a part-time design educator.

Ashley Tomlinson

Self Employed

Ashley is a multidisciplinary graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. So far her career has focused on editorial design at Studio Wyse and Clean Eating Magazine. A big lover of magazines and books (she loves storytelling), you can sometimes find her hanging out at Issues Magazine Shop or checking out books at the library. In her spare time she also co-writes a newsletter on pop culture called Shaping the Narrative which is just an excuse to write about all the books she’s reading. Always up for a conversation; her favourite topics include books, dogs and The Real Housewives.

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