Sticky Notes with CJ Cawley and Jack Chitty

Are design influencers ruining the industry?

This week, we're getting into the uncomfortable conversation you have to have with yourself when promoting your business on social media. The line between marketing yours

Design client red flags

This week, we’re talking about the red flags we look for before agreeing to work with a new design client. Finding clients is one thing. Finding the right clients... wel

Being a good brand designer isn't enough anymore

This week, we’re talking about everything it takes to run a successful creative business that has absolutely nothing to do with being good at design. We share the skills

Designing A Retro-Futurist Brand

This week, we’re continuing the case study series with a look behind the scenes of Jack’s latest brand identity project for Verdex - a premium all-wheel-drive robotic mow

I Deliberately Designed a Boring Logo

This week, we’re doing something a little different and taking you properly behind the scenes of a real brand identity project.CJ breaks down the identity he created for

A$AP Rocky vs Allan Peters

Using the recent Allan Peters and A$AP Rocky situation as a case study, we're taking a look at social media, self-promotion, and what it actually takes to market yourself

The BEST Logo I Ever Designed

This week, we’re talking about the projects that never saw the light of day. We're talking rejected ideas and identities that were maybe signed off but never launched. We

This One Mistake Cost Me £4,000…

This week, we’re talking about how to protect yourself as a freelance designer.We're talking contracts, payment terms, scope creep, unlimited revisions and difficult clie

A "Design" Company Stole My Work To Train Their AI

This week, we’re finally talking about AI... but not as a hypothetical debate about what might happen to the creative industry one day.We’re talking about something that

What Is It REALLY Like To Run A Global Design Studio?

This week, we're back after a short break, catching up on everything that's happened.Jack opens up about losing confidence in his studio, comparing himself to other desig

How Much Should I Charge for Creative Work?

This week, we tackle one of the most uncomfortable conversations in the creative industry: money.How much should you charge for your first logo design project? We talk ho

Every Creative's Worst Nightmare

This week, we get into the thing that separates work with soul from work without it. From copying the designers we admire to chasing critique over praise, we unpack what

Why Clients Keep Rejecting Your Work

This week, CJ and Jack get into the one thing that makes or breaks a creative career — getting your work signed off. From presenting ideas in front of a class for the fir

How to Find Graphic Design Clients

This week, CJ and Jack unpack the reality of finding clients as a freelance designer. From saying yes to everything in the early days, to learning how to attract the righ

I Quit My 9-5… Now I Can’t Stop Working

We quit our 9-5's to work 5-9. This week, CJ and Jack unpack the guilt that comes with being a freelance creative and finally putting your 'out of office' on. We get int

How do Freelance Graphic Designers find Motivation?

What happens when the wins stop coming? When projects drag on, self-doubt creeps in, confidence drops, and you start questioning whether you even know what you’re doing a

The Skill Gap Is Destroying My Confidence | EP002

You know that feeling where your taste is up here… but your actual ability feels way down there? Well, we unpack the constant battle of knowing what “great” looks like,

The Dark Side of Social Media | EP001

Well... this week’s episode took a completely unexpected turn.What started as a conversation about social media, sharing your work online, and building a personal brand q

Why Should You Watch This Podcast? | EP000

Welcome to the very first episode of Sticky Notes - the unfiltered podcast for creative professionals, where we ungatekeep the arts of our careers nobody talks about but

Should Brand Designers Niche Down? | Sticky Notes EP01

Welcome to the first-ever episode of Sticky Notes. The podcast for graphic designers, logo designers, and brand designers who are figuring out how to build a freelance de