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The Honest Designer Diaries

by Designer in your Pocket | Juls Christie-Clark

The Honest Designer Diaries is a podcast about what it actually feels like to work in design. Hosted by Juls Christie-Clark (Designer in your Pocket) a brand designer and design educator based in Glasgow with over 30 years in the industry, each episode is a chat with a designer about a real experience or situation from their career. Sometimes it might be difficult, sometimes career-changing, sometimes funny, and sometimes it’s the kind of thing you only talk about properly once you’ve found another designer who gets it. Guests will include designers at all different stages of their careers, from new designers just coming into the industry, to designers who are 10+ years in, to the lifers who have been doing this for decades. We’ll talk about agency life, in-house roles, freelance work, clients, confidence, pricing, rejection, comparison, personal branding, building a design career online, building one completely offline, and all the bits of the industry that don’t always get shared very openly. Each guest brings one experience or story from their own career, then we chat about what happened, how they handled it, what they might do differently now, and what they’d say to another designer going through something similar. The Honest Designer Diaries is for graphic designers, brand designers, freelancers, students, creative business owners, and anyone trying to find their place in the design industry without pretending they’ve got it all figured out.

Chart trend

Position in the Design chart (US), last 90 days.

#133
all-time peak
5
days in the top 200 since Jul 2026

Latest episodes

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Bonus: Chatty Diaries | The accountability pact we might regret making public

Chloe from The Chatty Freelancer and I have a habit of sitting in the car talking for ages whenever we meet up, usually after one of us has offered the other a lift home.

Sep 4
46 min

When designers become their clients therapists with Wayne Fick | EP013

When you’re good at listening, asking the right questions and understanding what really matters to a client, it usually makes you a better designer. It can also mean that

Sep 2
1 h 03 min

From fashion designer in New York to content creator with Hannah Walker | EP012

Hannah Walker didn’t set out to become a content creator. She studied fashion design, worked in London and New York, then found herself back in the UK wondering what the

Aug 26
1 h 02 min

Why do creatives wait for permission to make decisions they've already made? with Robin Son | EP011

In this episode I’m chatting with Robin, brand and graphic designer and host of Creative Confessions, about the fear of growth and why we can make a decision in our own h

Aug 19
45 min

How Morgan Hastie built a design career before graduating

What happens when you graduate from design school and realise you’ve technically already been working as a designer for a few years? This week I’m chatting with graphic

Aug 12
50 min

Sexism in Graphic Design: Why are women still fighting to be heard? with Liz Mosley | EP009

This week I’m joined by brand designer, speaker and Building Your Brand podcast host Liz Mosley for a chat about sexism in the graphic design industry, and why women are

Aug 5
53 min

Bonus episode: The Saturday night SOS client

In this bonus episode, I’m sharing the story of the Saturday Night SOS client, who also happened to be a friend, which made saying no even harder. What was meant to be a

Aug 3
11 min

Slow sales and quiet months: The reality of running a small business with Nikki McWilliams | EP008

What do you do when business goes quiet, orders slow down and everyone else online still looks suspiciously busy? In this episode, I’m joined by Scottish designer and ma

Jul 29
39 min

What happens when your dream career isn’t right for you? with Aseil Amgheib | EP007

Aseil Amgheib started out in interior architecture, moved into production design, then found her way into branding almost by accident during lockdown. A few cold emails,

Jul 22
47 min

Made redundant three times, then freelance finally stuck with Ross Grubb | EP006

Ross Grubb didn’t plan on becoming a freelance graphic designer. After four design jobs and being put at risk of redundancy four times, three of which ended with him losi

Jul 15
44 min

Bad clients and blurry boundaries with Bhavini Lakhani | EP005

I’m chatting with graphic designer Bhavini Lakhani about the client red flags we really should trust sooner, especially when we’re freelancing and trying to keep everyone

Jul 8
57 min

Canva vs Adobe our honest experience as creators with Darren Meredith | EP 004

I’m chatting with my lovely pal Darren Meredith about something we’ve both been asked about quite a lot, our experience working with Canva and Adobe as creators. And jus

Jul 1
45 min

The Friday freelance experiment with Teresa Ferreira | EP 003

In this episode of The Honest Designer Diaries, I’m chatting with Teresa Ferreira, founder of Ferrrgood Studio, about leaving her role as Head of Design at the Financial

Jun 24
43 min

Going freelance before you feel ready with Rachel Cartledge | EP 002

In this episode of The Honest Designer Diaries, I’m chatting to Rachel Cartlidge, a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Edinburgh. Rachel left university

Jun 24
30 min

Welcome to The Honest Designer Diaries | EP 001

Episode 1: Why I’m Starting The Honest Designer Diaries The Honest Designer Diaries is a podcast about what it’s actually like to build a life and career as a designer,

Jun 14
3 min

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#198 ▼ 60 Design US

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