Creative Figures

Murugiah on reinvention and following the fun

llustrator and artist MURUGIAH on whether artists should reinvent themselves, and why he follows the fun instead. "Don't let what you did last get in the way of what you

Nick Liefhebber on paper cuts, printmaking and working with limitations

Illustrator Nick Liefhebber on paper cuts, woodcut printmaking, going independent one day at a time, and why limitations shape his work. "When you just start making thin

Erik Herrström on brands that move culture, David Bowie and working without mood boards

Designer Erik Herrström on his book The Echo, why his studio never shows clients a mood board, and designing identities for Whitney Houston and Elvis Presley. "We never

Murugiah on persistence, identity and his first museum show

Illustrator and artist MURUGIAH on leaving architecture, finding his own style, and opening the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration with his first solo museum show. "E

E99 - Second Take: Kieron Anthony Lewis, "A Book Inside Concrete"

Kieron Anthony Lewis opens this one by saying he cannot do the project justice by describing it. That you almost have to see it. He is right, which is awkward for a podc

E98 - Second Take: Andy J. Pizza, "Cultivate Yourself, Don't Overcome Yourself"

I asked Andy how long it took him to start liking himself the way he is. He did not give me a number. He said it is something he has to constantly return to and refresh.

E97 — Second Take: Gemma O'Brien, "What Flow Actually Feels Like"

Gemma O'Brien describes flow as a forgetting of yourself. Fully absorbed, at one with the work, no sense of time passing. Then the conversation turns to boredom, and tha

E96 - Second Take: Mat Voyce, "I Hated Motion Design"

Mat Voyce makes motion work for Nike, Pepsi and Disney+. He also tried animation at university, hated it, and decided he would never do it again. This is Second Take, a

Bonus 007 - Simon Flöter: His Grandfather's Love Letters & What He'd Make if Money Didn't Matter

This is the seventh Captn OffScript bonus, and the last one of Season 2. After a main episode spent in the trenches, I asked Simon Flöter one question that flips it all u

S02/E38 - Simon Flöter on Life in the Trenches & Not Making Decisions From Fear

For the final episode of Season 2, I didn't want a victory lap. Simon Flöter is a German illustrator, designer and developer living in Amsterdam, and he told me early on:

Bonus 006 - Halli Thorleifsson: Rebuilding Yourself Brick by Brick

This is the sixth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. In Halli Thorleifsson's main episode we covered everything he's built: the agency he sold to Twitter and rebuilt, the

Bonus 005 — Teresa Ferreira: Whose Voice Is That? Making Peace with Imposter Syndrome

This is the fifth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Teresa Ferreira and I recorded her main episode, we got into imposter syndrome and self-worth, and it was honest

S02/E37 - Halli Thorleifsson on Building Ueno Twice & Designing Things People Actually Use

Haraldur "Halli" Thorleifsson built the design agency Ueno from nothing, sold it to Twitter in 2021, and made a decision almost nobody makes: he structured the sale so he

S02/E36 - Teresa Ferreira on Digging Her Way Into Design & Letting Go of the Perfect Day

Some people walk a straight line into design. Teresa Ferreira dug her way in, through archaeology. She was born in Lisbon, spent part of her childhood in Macau, has lived

Bonus 004 - Gemma O'Brien: Making Peace with Burnout & Studying the Flow State

This is the fourth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Gemma O'Brien and I recorded her main episode, we got into burnout and flow, and I held that part back for this.

Bonus 003 - Radim Malinic: The Sabre-Tooth Tiger in Your Head & Why You Can't Unlearn Fear

This is the third bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Radim Malinic and I recorded his main episode, the conversation about fear came near the end, and it was good eno

S02/E35 - Gemma O'Brien on Getting Bored of Herself & Refusing to Pick One Thing

Gemma O'Brien is a lettering artist, a fine artist, a muralist, and most recently a student of neuroaesthetics. She's painted a billboard in Times Square, had work acquir

Bonus 002 - Martyna Wędzicka: Posters Made of Yarn & Why Graphic Designers Don't Retire

This is the second bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Martyna Wędzicka and I recorded her main episode, we spent most of it on the past and the present. But right at

S02/E34 - Radim Malinic on Creativity as Escape & Becoming More of Who You Already Are

Radim Malinic has been a role model of mine for years. He's a designer, a writer, a speaker, he runs the agency Brand Nu, he hosts his own podcast, and he's built a whole

Bonus 001 - CJ Cawley & Alen: The Scripts We Were Given & the People Who Helped Us Change Them

his is the first-ever bonus episode of Captn OffScript. CJ Cawley and I recorded the main S02/E32 conversation for over an hour and twenty minutes, and somewhere around t