Interview with legendary skateboarder Steve Caballero.

Visual artist Gary Baseman shares his story of creating his art movement called pervasive art, which Brickey refers to as Prediction of Art.

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Mark and Connie break down the Peter Jackson-directed documentary about The Beatles from the creative perspective of this epic story.

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Dan & Nathan of DKNG Studios returns for episode 43 of The DKNG Show to talk about becoming rappers and worked with AMC Theaters to create a new business model for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

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Xencelabs is a passionate team of enthusiastic digital art industry veterans with more than 30 years of experience. Dedicated to exploring, innovating, designing, and developing the new pen tablet generation.

At some point, we all knew there would be a company to come along and take the wild west of the NFT scene and bring it into the mainstream. Is VEVE the company to pull off this task? With big licensing deals, it seems they have the proper IP to bring in the masses! Let's check in with VEVE communications manager Rhys Skellern to understand better where both NFTs and VEVE are heading.

Dan & Nathan join Brickey today in a true adventure into design where after years of illustrating buildings. Today they try to figure out how in the hell they are made?

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The Hillbilly duo of Mark and Connie get into sexy old school wrestling videos, how to design the perfect strip club and return to more CLUE-less Crime Podcasts.

Today's Adventure breaks down the design of Squid Game and contemplates how this show quickly grabbed everyone's attention and what we can learn from this show to apply to our marketing efforts!

Today In The Circle of Trust, we give a full spoiler review of everything we loved about the show and a few problems detected and contemplate how to make a follow-up season.

Today's Adventure is something we have all contemplated. What happens if I time travel to 1950 and kill my grandfather? Do I still exist? Can time travel street justice even the scores against time?

Brickey and Connie have each rewatched the Soprano's entire six-season run and can't wait to talk about how different it was watching it all twenty years later. And in part two, break down whether or not The Many Saints of Newark was a successful prequel?

Brickey breaks down how commercial/residential buildings were created and how they solve many urban housing problems.

Today Brickey and members of the Circle of Trust breakdown the Facebook Whistleblower interview from 60 Minutes and talk about how Facebook may be even more disgusting than what he had all imagined. 

DKNG Shares the details on creating the vinyl packaging and illustrations for the original Superman movie soundtrack and breakdown a recent gig poster automobile illustration for 311. 

A new generation of men are adjusting to being second best at earning income for their families and doing so with few role models from their youth. 

Today's episode we announce a... DESIGN CONTEST (pause for applause) and breakdown what happened one minute after the dinosaurs disappeared. How's that for variety!

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Alex Murdaugh Murder Mystery has a TON of problems. We break down this insane story from the idiots perspective. 

Connie plays Brickey 15 minutes of another podcast… Brickey starts a war.

Our good friend Thunderking visits us to talk about his new business venture I Heart Costa Mesa. Brickey breaks down how Dean's the right guy for the job and how this might be the right business model for you! 

Carl returns to Adventures In Design to make her first appearance on WYFP, where she shares a BIG problem.

Emir from GARM Company shares the detail on his new creative tool Colorama that will allow designers and illustrators to quickly make better color selections for their projects. 

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Dan Stiles return with a bucket of bad logos and even worse ideas. Enter the pimple of boom if you dare!!! Where you will see fucking logos and so much bad design it will blow your precious mind!!!

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Do you want to get your 2022 off to a good start? Then consider taking the Back To School Freelance Challenge and use your fall to transform your new year into your most successful one!

Today Connie and Mark look back at Woodstock 99 through the lens of the HBO Max documentary that shines the light on just how dangerous the event was and hopefully how far we have come as a society.

Brickey tells the story of 3 Dans and challenges you to audit your goals and more importantly your path to achieving them. Circle of Trust members share their reasons for staying free of freelance. 

Arthur and Riley of Classic Grit share their mutual love of baseball and explain how they transformed their fandom into a thriving apparel line for baseball fans that love the sport just like they do. 

The long-term value of following your talents instead of constantly being slowed down by short-term projects for clients that don't matter. And the best clause you probably don't have in your freelance contracts.

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Let's break down some of Dan Gretta's masterful design and type compositions and get a better understanding of why such a talented illustrator designer would decide to turn his back on freelancing.

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One of the all time BEST Adventures In Design guest returns to share how a pandemic pushed him into publishing his own 64 page comic and in the process realizing the best client for Skinner is himself! More great things to come from this project: http://kck.st/3BZRCbb

Should you hold back on your ideas for fear of someone taking them and applying them to their business? How do you stay curious about new technology but not get too sidetracked?

Illustrator & Graphic Design OKpants rebranded the Cleveland Browns 3 years ago as a self initiated design challenge. Last week the former Cleveland Indians rebranded themselves... Using the same theme as OKpants. How does he feel about this?

Dan Stiles joins us to not only review some Bad Design, but also a couple of good designs too. Plus we look at what is the responsibility of being a billionaire and do hobbies really suck?

Brickey takes a long look back at a constant trend in his life that has always lead to personal and professional success.

Colonel Tower and Brickey share their mutual love of Evel Knievel and the insanity of his rich life.

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Long time friend of the show Connie Collingsworth returns for her second summer episode, updating us all about how it's been going having her wife as her coworker. The interview is as entertaining as it is informative about working together with the person you love the most on the projects you love the most.

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Mark and Connie talk about their mutual love of pregnant teenagers and broke reality stars.

Last July was absolutely insane! Brickey asks how are you making out one year later?

Dave Kloc returns one year after his monumental interview last summer, where he openly admitted he didn't feel like being creative anymore. And who could blame Dave because July 2020 was a crazy-ass time?

We catch up with Ben and Miranda as they have packed up their bags and moved Snake Oil Provisions to it’s new home in Los Angeles.

Last week with Tim Baron we talked about how comics, skateboarding and punk rock were our early guides to the creative universe but later in Tim’s life other factors guided him to steer the ship to full time freelance. Join episode 6 of WYFP to talk about what has been guiding you! Or always feel free to show up with your own question!

All summer long, on Wednesdays, you can hear Brickey and the Circle of Trust break down an episode-wide topic of a problem and listen to members of the Circle of Trust share what their situation may be, whether it's professional, personal, or just for fun.

Today's Fourth of July themed episode goes wrong when all of the guys find themselves contemplating their futures and fill in the heat of a sweltering summer.

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Tim Baron documents how the last year was a massive growing year for him personally and professionally... and it all started by watching Fight Club.

Dan has been a dad for a year, what has he learned and has Nathan figured out a similar plan for paid time off.

We ask members of the Circle of Trust what's their biggest social media problem and we discuss how having a strong design/illustration style can sometimes hurt your career. 

On his way to one million followers on TikTok sneaker designer Anderson Bluu shares how he used social media growth to kick his designer career into full gear. 

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In today's episode, Brickey asks everyone about career traps. Inspired by Jason Edmiston's episode AID1384, Jason spoke about being trapped in a project where he dreams of it going away every day. Today's guests talk about their career traps and knowing when it was their time to give up on full-time freelance. Plus updates on previous guests and how the WYFP advice has helped their creative journeys.

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All summer long, on Wednesdays, you can hear Brickey and the Circle of Trust break down an episode-wide topic of a problem and listen to members of the Circle of Trust share what their situation may be, whether it's professional, personal, or just for fun.

In today's episode, Brickey asks everyone about career traps. Inspired by Jason Edmiston's episode AID1384, Jason spoke about being trapped in a project where he dreams of it going away every day. Today's guests talk about their career traps like not navigating interoffice politics successfully and learning how to say no. Being more selective of the projects you take on and realizing that freelance itself was the trap, so it was time to take that full-time job.

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Mike Brevik from Cyberdogz has found a new way to give back to his favorite artists. An inspirational tale and a new perspective on donating your creative time.

Today's call in question is what's your weakness? How has it held you back? And how have you learned to overcome it? 

Jason Edmiston shares how he has once again gotten stuck inside a project he can't get out of, and Brickey offers advice on how Jason should take more control of his project schedule.

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The guys share what they see to be the actual value of social media.

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Old friend of the show Connie Collingsworth stops by the show to talk about the current state of the music industry and country music. 

WYFP (What's Your Fucking Problem)

All summer long, on Wednesdays, you can hear Brickey and the Circle of Trust break down an episode-wide topic of a problem and listen to members of the Circle of Trust share what their situation may be, whether it's professional, personal, or just for fun. 

In today's episode, Brickey asks everyone, "What's The Best Thing You Lost, And The Best Thing You Gained From Surviving The 2020 Global Pandemic" and helps a Circle of Trust member understand how to work with their partner to make the full-time freelance leap of faith, stay busy wile mending a broken heart, and a social experiment that went wrong. 

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We kick off the summer season but first, look back at the global branding and marketing disaster that was the global pause demic and the projects that both Emir and Brickey launched over the forced downtime of last year. Emir shares how Procreate has helped him get back into being more of a traditional illustrator and how each of us has a unique set of tools that help us solve our creative problems.

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The importance of routine and getting out of the office.
Emir hopes to grow the inspiration books from Garm Company.
Brickey shares how his design projects always started with research and a collage of ideas.
Do tattoo artists have the most challenging illustration job that exists?
The balance of creating side hustles and which way do the guys want their careers to grow.

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In today's episode, the guys' hang out and talk about how better marketing, branding, and, yes, design could have changed how America navigated the pandemic. We break down new artwork for Cliff Bar and discuss the music industry back for designers. Circle of Trust, make sure to listen to the end where the guys announce something fun coming only for members at AID.network.

Jeremy Slagle is skillful at graphic design, typography, branding, and illustration but what he may have over every other person in his career is communication with prospective clients. Today's conversation is about the conversation of getting new clients to understand your creative process. Even though Jeremy can hang with anyone on design skills, this is where he's clearly in the first place.

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Balancing their art career, making fine art, prints, murals, working in the film industry, and now with the Family- Atlas and their wife adopted three kids in 2013 from LA - has its rewards and challenges. Atlas made life-altering moves over the last year, and even though your actions may not be as big as theirs, so much inspiration to be gained from someone who made the worst of times, the best possible way to make the rest of their life, the life they want to live.

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Wayne Li is not only an first class designer and draftsman, but he’s an exceptional design thinker and today he shares with us the idea of problem framing. Wayne helps explain the fundamentals for successful commercial design and shares with us all how empathy is the new trend in design and how he hopes it’s here to stay.

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Great design leadership, can it be taught? And exploring how the automotive industry has many examples of successful problem framing.

Our good friend Biggie of Good Fight Entertainment has decided to call it quits at 41 years young. Today's story is about setting your goals, crushing your expectations but then learning to listen to the voice inside your heart that tells you what matters the most.

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Today's Unlucky Topics:

• Tesla Yoke Steering Wheel
• De Branding
• Empathy In Design
• Face Masks
• NFTs
• Amazon Ap
• Pandemic Pre Tipping
• American Library 

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Scott Henderson is an industrial designer located in DUMBO, Brooklyn, expressing innovative function, deeper meaning, and soul. Scott is considered one of the top industrial designers working in the U.S. today. 

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Mark asks Mark Lewman after thirty-three years in the design and advertising industry how does he feel about the future of his profession and what can we all learn from his veteran insight. 

The DKNG duo is deep into NDA Land. Because of that journey, we enjoy a conversation between friends on how to appropriately Act As If and not in a way where you lie to everyone about how you feel, but in a way where you project your happiness to where you want to be. The gang also listens to a NEW Nirvana song that artificial intelligence wrote.

Today in the Circle of Trust, we discuss NDA Land and how DKNG sees the freelance market growing again after the 2020 off-year. To finish today's show, we discover a proven mathematical theory that predicted Covid 19 and where society is heading next.

Brian Slagel followed passion his entire life, and that passion was his love of Heavy Metal Music. Brian found Iron Maiden and then saw the path he would pursue the rest of his life. Enjoy an episode that celebrates following what you love and letting the rest of life fall into place.

Website: https://www.metalblade.com
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Sean Mort and Mark Brickey are not normal people, and this is not a normal review of a Disney+ Marvel series. So we brought on Charlie to help give Steve in Canada some real Marvel nerd shit.

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Attack Peter shares his path from punk rock to printmaking and makes a pit stop between them to pursue teaching. A fun conversation showcasing we may not always know where life's destination is taking us, but hard work and persistence often lead to success. Attack Peter nows finds himself creating relief prints for Mondo, Sideshow Collectables, and dropping his first toy for Mighty Jaxx. Peter has also landed the visual artist equivalent to a record deal through Skybound Entertainment.

Tommy Maddox-Upshaw ASC shares his journey that started assisting his older sister working on mid-nineties hip hip videos on the east coast to being a cinematographer on the west coast for FX's hit anti-hero drama Snowfall.

Jermaine Rogers is an artist and designer who first achieved wide notoriety in modern ‘rock art’, also known as ‘gigposter’ art, as well as serigraph and fine art production. His work is viewed as influential in the modern resurgence of the ‘gigposter’ art form, continuously crafting images that push boundaries, whether social, cultural, or aesthetic.

Today Jermaine shares his outlook on the social strife of 2020, how to manage the ups and downs of an art career and what it means to make your father proud. 

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Kendrick Kidd is such a nice and talented guy, we will do this again when we're not riding in cars and waiting for planes. Go Balls Deeep Today for a COT Surprise. I'm Loving It!

Ben and Miranda of Snake Oil Provisions join us to share how they made it out in 2020. They give us all the details of the NEW NASHVILLE LOCATION. Some PeePaw social media tips and for members of the Circle of Trust the benefits of using long-format videos to talk to your customers and the hiring and firing principles of SOP.

Snake Oil Provisions is a specialized menswear shop in Long Beach, California, and Nashville, Tennessee.