Print Design Podcast - How to Win with Print in a Digital World

Episode 85 - Why freelance designers are stuck at $50k/year and how to grow past it

If your design business hit some early growth and then flatlined, this one's for you. In this solo episode I get into the three problems that quietly stall out most free

Episode 84 - How to Build a Cult Brand in Print - with Kierian Cameron, Editor of Brand Cult Newspaper

Kierian Cameron is the editor of Brand Cult, the UK's first print-only business newspaper, and it's unlike anything else landing in a mailbox: wax sealed, wrapped in tiss

Episode 83 - How a Newspaper can land your next Client - With Kaye Symington from Newspaper Club

Kaye Symington is the CMO of Newspaper Club and co-founder of Glasgow Print Fair. A self-proclaimed "print enabler" rather than a printmaker. In this one we get into how

Episode 82 - How to Make Real Money Designing for Print with Laura Jane Boast

Laura-Jane Boast has run her Manchester studio Conscious Made for 12 years, and it's basically all print. In this episode she gets into how she niched hard into color, m

Episode 81 - Designing a 640-Page Book, with Dora Drimalas from Hybrid Design

Dora Drimalas, co-founder of San Francisco studio Hybrid Design, spent years (on and off, over a decade) building a 640-page case-bound monster of a book, and in this epi

Episode 80 - A Bowl of Nostalgia: Neenah x Print Design Academy Cereal Box Collab

In this episode I sit down with Michelle McDermott-Pautz, who runs channel marketing for Neenah Paper in North America, to walk through the two-year journey of building a

Episode 79 - Alberta Distillers Rare Batch Whisky - Olberding Brand Family

In this episode, Dave talks with Chris Gajus, Creative Director at Olberding Brand Family, about the packaging for Alberta Distillers Rare Batch that his team helped brin

Episode 78 - Diego Marini - Yummy Colours - Statue of Liberty + Sophy Holland Books

This week's guest is Diego Marini. He is a Co-Founder, Creative Director, and Designer from Yummy Colours out of New York. Although he is located in Copenhagen.  Diego l

Episode 77 - Tony - Industry Print Shop

My guest on this episode is Tony Diaz from Industry Print Shop out of Austin Texas. If you haven't heard of Industry, where have you been!? I call this episode, story tim

Episode 76 - Connie Lui - Yummy Colours - Concept of the Year

This week's guest is Connie Lui. She is a Partner, Creative Director, and Designer from Yummy Colours out of New York.  I saw an Instagram post that Yummy Colours shared

Episode 75 - 3 Things Designers should do to prepare for a recession

A rare solo episode with Dave Hopkins, Founder of Print Design Academy and host of the Print Design Podcast. They say we are in a recession and it is going to get worse.

Episode 74 - The Print Design Summit - BTS, wins, fails, lessons, and will there be a Summit 2024?

This episode features us, Dave and Gabby, breaking down the Print Design Summit.  We share our expectations, actual results, our wins, our fails, lessons learned, how we

Episode 73 - Jonny Black - The Office of Ordinary Things - D+K Printing Promotion

This week's guest is Jonny Black from TOOOT. Also known as The Office of Ordinary Things out of San Francisco California.  This episode is literally years in the making.

Episode 72 - Mackenzie Brookshire - Landscape - Cookma Print + Packaging

This week's guest is Mackenzie Brookshire. She is the Creative Director from Landscape out of Oakland, CA. @thisislandscape During this episode, we talk about drawing su

Episode 71 - Dan Gretta - Cigar Bands + Packaging - Dapper Cigars

This week's guest is Dan Gretta. He is a designer and illustrator who has been putting out incredibly detailed work for Cigar Bands, Cigar Packaging, high-end spirits, an

Episode 70 - Gene Portnoy - Work and Company - Cannabis Packaging

This week's guest is Gene Portnoy. He is the talented creative behind Work and Company. @genepdesign @workandcompany We did things a little bit differently on this episo

Episode 69 - Julie Brannen - Monadnock Paper

This week's guest is Julie Brannen, she is the Director of Sustainability at Monadnock Paper out of New Hampshire. Monadnock is all about Sustainability in the manufactur

Episode 68 - Macaroni Creative - CPG Packaging

This week's guests are Ron and Mackenzie from Macaroni Creative. This is their second time on the show chatting about awesome packaging they had created and put out in th

Episode 67 - Sam O'Brien - Sample Co - Criquet Brand Book - Offset/Digital Print

This weeks guest is Sam O'Brien. He is a Graphic Designer and owner of Sample Co. out of Austin Texas. @sample_co During this interview, we talk about how he got into th

Episode 66 - Paul Haggerty - Smokers Section Journal - Riso Printing

This weeks guest is Paul Haggerty. He is a Graphic Designer, Illustrator, and Art Director out of Pittsburg PA. @paul_haggerty During this episode, we talk about some of