Creative South Podcast

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. Today on the show I talk with illustrator. Jerrod Maruyama. If you aren’t familiar with Jerrod, he's done a ton of work for companies like Facebook, Nickelodeon, Mattel, and Hasbro. He’s probably best known to the design world for his kawaii style illustrations and creating Hipster Mickey for Disney’s Wonderground Gallery. We sit down at talk about his career path, the process of working with Disney, doing side projects just for himself, and much more, all right after this. Are you ready to Explore your creativity and meet a ton of new friends while you’re doing it? Then head over to creativesouthga.com right now and get your Creative South tickets. Join us April 6th - 9th in Columbus, GA for Creative South, where you come as friends and leave as family. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you b

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. We’re wrapping up the bonus episodes recorded Live at Weapons of Mass Creation. In this episode, I’m joined by my beautiful and talented co-host, Lenny Terenzi of Hey Monkey! Design. We sit down with Brittany Barnhart and talk with her about getting started in the industry as a freelancer, the importance of experimenting with your work, her passion for illustration, her favorite type of beer, and more all right after this. Are you ready to Explore your creativity and meet a ton of new friends while you’re doing it? Then head over to creativesouthga.com right now and get your Creative South tickets. Join us April 6th - 9th in Columbus, GA for Creative South, where you come as friends and leave as family. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you become a Creative South Patron you’ll get access to

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Ryan Arruda, an eCommerce marketing manager for Monotype and fonts.com. Ryan is a native Rhode Islander now spending his time in Worcester, Mass with his wife and beautiful daughter. We sit down and talk about his time at RISD, work, his favorites snacks cakes, wearing a blazer to see the WWE and much more, right after this. Are you ready to Explore your creativity and meet a ton of new friends while you’re doing it? Join us April 6th - 9th in Columbus, GA for Creative South, where you come as friends and leave as family. Head over to CreativeSouth.com and get your ticket now for the greatest creative conference this side if the Mississippi. Plus keep listening to the podcast for more exclusive news on #CS17 speakers, events, and workshops coming soon. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podca

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. We’re continuing with the bonus episodes recorded Live at Weapons of Mass Creation. In this episode, I fired my former co-host Blake Stevenson of Jetpacks and Rollerskates in favor of Mr. Hey Monkey himself, Lenny Terenzi. We sit down with Doc Reed and talk with him about lucid dreaming, the importance of listening, and the best and worst advice he’s ever gotten, all right after this. Are you ready to Explore your creativity and meet a ton of new friends while you’re doing it? Then head over to creativesouthga.com right now and get your Creative South tickets. Join us April 6th - 9th in Columbus, GA for Creative South, where you come as friends and leave as family. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you become a Creative South Patron you’ll get access to exciting Creative South News before any

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Enon Avital, a UX/UI designer for Adorama in New York City. Enon and I sit down and chat about growing up in a extremely religious family in Israel, moving stateside during high school and being saved in life by his uncle, Hebrew Type where he creates dimensional typography in Hebrew, and much more, right after this. Are you ready to Explore your creativity and meet a ton of new friends while you’re doing it? Join us April 6th - 9th in Columbus, GA for Creative South, where you come as friends and leave as family. Head over to CreativeSouthGA.com and get your ticket now for the greatest creative conference this side if the Mississippi. Plus keep listening to the podcast for more exclusive news on #CS17 speakers, events, and workshops coming soon. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast goi

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. We’re continuing with the bonus episodes recorded Live at Weapons of Mass Creation. In this episode, I’m joined once again by a special guest co-host, Blake Stevenson of Jetpacks and Rollerskates. We sit down and talk with Dustin Lee of Retro Supply, about awkward off mic moments, why he started Retrosupply and his new project, Passive Income for Designers, where he teaches designers how to market and sell products to earn an income. And, I give him a hard time about his podcast, Passive Income for Designers, which just released a new episode after an extended hiatus, all right after this. Are you ready to Explore your creativity and meet a ton of new friends while you're doing it? Then head over to creativesouthga.com right now and get your Creative South tickets. Join us April 6th - 9th in Columbus, GA for Creative South, where you come as friends and leave as family. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patre

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guests this week are the guys from Forefathers, Emir, Jonden, and Matt. We talk about everything under the sun, from them all meeting for the first time in person last April at Creative South, to working with their business coach, Jason Blumer, who specializes in helping people in the creative and tech world, how they tackle working between 3 time zones and two continents, Their “Revision Manifesto” and how it has changed their business and the relationships they have with their clients, all that and Jonden coins the term “Piss Wizard,” right after this. In case you missed it, the Creative South 2017 Love is blind tickets went on sale last Monday and y’all sold them out in 30 minutes. If you weren’t able to get yours, fear not! Because the minute the Love is Blind tickets sold out we unlocked the rest of the Creative South tickets. So head over to CreativeSouthGA.com and get your ticket now for the greatest creative conference this side

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. We’re continuing with the bonus episodes recorded Live at Weapons of Mass Creation. In this episode, I’m joined by a special guest co-host, Blake Stevenson of Jetpacks and Roller-skates. We sit down and talk with Anderson Munro of Bluu Dreams, an Aquatic themed clothing brand about his company, how he got his start, and the best and worst advice he’s ever gotten, all right after this. Y’all are incredible, you sold out the Love is Blind tickets for Creative South in 30 minutes! If you missed out on the Love is Blind tickets, I’m sorry. The good news is you can head over to creativesouthga.com right now and get your regular priced tickets right now. Join us in April in Columbus, GA for Creative South, where you come as friends and leave as family. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you become a

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Derek Friday, an environmental graphic designer based out of Boulder, Colorado and Hamburg, Germany. We talk about how he shifted from essentially getting a degree in architecture into doing environmental graphic design, moving around and splitting his time between the US and Germany, and the importance of relationships and collaboration, all right after this. Big news on the Creative South front, if you are listening to this on release day — today, Monday, September 15th at Noon Eastern Time — Love is Blind tickets go on sale. There are only 125 if them and last year they sold out in a little over an hour. These early bird tickets are $175, that’s $125 less than what the full price tickets will cost when the go on sale. So, set the alarm on your phone, wake up early if you are on the West Coast, get your debit card ready and pick up your Creative South 2017 Love is Blind tickets before they’re gone. If you like the p

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. We’re continuing with the bonus episodes recorded Live at Weapons of Mass Creation. In this episode, I’m joined by a special guest co-host, Mr. Blake Stevenson of Jetpacks and Roller-skates. We sit down and talk with New Jersey-based Designer and Illustrator, Kevin Greene about growing up in a blue-collar family, designing the Shorty Awards, and pushing himself to pursue more illustration work, all right after this. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you become a Creative South Patron you’ll get access to exciting Creative South News before anyone else, Creative South Podcast stickers and T-shirts, and you could even get your own podcast episode. So, please, help support the podcast by becoming a patron over at patreon.com/CreativeSouth. You can follow Kevin on Dribbble and Twitter @KevinGreen

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Peter Deltondo, Creative Director for Mossio and an integral part of the Creative South Team. We talk about how he got his start with Creative South, Design vs Cancer, his path to Mossio, the benefits and challenges of being part of a remote team, and more, all right after this. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to patreon.com/CreativeSouth. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you become a Creative South Patron you’ll get access to exciting Creative South News before anyone else, Creative South Podcast stickers and T-shirts, and you could even get your own podcast episode. So, please, help support the podcast by becoming a patron over at patreon.com/CreativeSouth. You can follow Peter on Dribbble and Twitter @PeterDeltondo and check out the show notes for more ways to interact with him. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter @Creat

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. We’re continuing with the bonus episodes recorded Live at Weapons of Mass Creation. In this episode, I talk with designer Joe Baron of Branded Baron about Ink Wars, the importance of having a good lawyer, and we do bad impressions of Muppets and Thundercats, all right after this. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to Patreon.com/Creative South. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you become a Creative South Patron you’ll get access to exciting Creative South News before anyone else, Creative South Podcast stickers and T-shirts, and you could even get your own podcast episode. So, please, help support the podcast by becoming a patron over at patreon.com/CreativeSouth. At Creative South we love ASTUTE GRAPHICS PLUG-INS! First-time Sponsors of Creative South 2016, Astute Graphics makes innovative plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator. These popular plug-ins lead the wa

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Jason Craig, a designer and illustrator, based out of Augusta, Georgia. We talk about growing up in central Illinois, hustling to find work, balancing his day job with freelancing, and more, all right after this. Podcasting can get expensive, with hosting costs, upgrading equipment, and traveling to events, not to mention the lavish lifestyle of Champagne and Caviar, 6000 thread count sheets and entourages. That’s why we’ve started a Patreon page where you can help support the Creative South Podcast and our extravagance. When you become a Creative South Patron, you’ll get access to exciting Creative South News before anyone else, Creative South Podcast stickers and T-shirts, and you could even get your own podcast episode. So, please, help support the podcast by becoming a patron over at patreon.com/CreativeSouth. At Creative South we love ASTUTE GRAPHICS PLUG-INS! First-time Sponsors of Creative South 2016, Astute Gr

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. This special bonus episode was recorded live at Weapons of Mass Creation. Dylan Menges joined me in the balcony of the State theater lobby for a short conversation about being a competitor in ink wars and the importance of drawing with your hands instead of just the computer, all right after this. Podcasting can get expensive, with hosting costs, upgrading equipment, and traveling to events, not to mention the lavish lifestyle of Champagne and Caviar, 6000 thread count sheets and entourages. That’s why we’ve started a Patreon page where you can help support the Creative South Podcast and our extravagance. When you become a Creative South Patron, you’ll get access to exciting Creative South News before anyone else, Creative South Podcast stickers and T-shirts, and you could even get your own podcast episode. So, please, help support the podcast by becoming a patron over at patreon.com/CreativeSouth. At Creative South we love ASTUTE GRAPHICS

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Catherine Moore. Catherine is an Atlanta-based Illustrator and an Assistant Professor of Art at Georgia Gwinnett College, she has done work for Men’s Health and Atlanta Magazines, as well as, Emory University and the University of Tennessee. We talk about how she went from getting a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin to an MFA in Illustration from Savanah College of Art and Design, why she wanted to teach, and where her love of art and illustration came from, all right after this. Thanks to Dylan Menges, Matt Burt, and Enon Avital for supporting the Creative South Podcast through our Patreon page. If you like the podcast and want to help support us head over to Patreon.com/Creative South. Every $1 helps us cover hosting costs, upgrade equipment, and keep the podcast going. When you become a Creative South Patron you’ll get access to exciting Creative South News before anyone else, Creative South Podcast

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. This special bonus episode was recorded live at the Dribble Meetup during Weapons of Mass Creation. I had the opportunity to talk with Mitch Shepherd of Humbly Made, Mike Sulick from Fan Brandz, and Mr. Wongface himself – Jordan Wong about life, work, and automatic drawing, all right after this. At Creative South we love ASTUTE GRAPHICS PLUG-INS! First-time Sponsors of Creative South 2016, Astute Graphics makes innovative plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator. These popular plug-ins lead the way in imaginative tools for vector designers that significantly save time, boost creativity and achieve refined results. Astute Graphics have developed 14 popular plug-ins over the last 10 years, including VectorScribe, Phantasm, Texturino, and MirrorMe, all of which are offered on a free 14-day full trial. Give them a try! Astute Graphics are currently holding their Summer Sale where they are offering up to 60% OFF their plug-ins. Usually all 14 of their p

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Jason Ratner, a designer with Disney Design Group. We walk about growing up in New York, getting started with an internship at Disney, what it’s like to work at Disney, becoming a parent, and much more, all right after this. At Creative South we love ASTUTE GRAPHICS PLUG-INS! First-time Sponsors of Creative South 2016, Astute Graphics makes innovative plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator. These popular plug-ins lead the way in imaginative tools for vector designers that significantly save time, boost creativity and achieve refined results. Astute Graphics have developed 14 popular plug-ins over the last 10 years, including VectorScribe, Phantasm, Texturino, and MirrorMe, all of which are offered on a free 14-day full trial. Give them a try! Astute Graphics are currently holding their Summer Sale where they are offering up to 60% OFF their plug-ins. Usually all 14 of their plug-ins sell for £545 approximately $700, however,

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. This is a special bonus episode of the podcast recorded live at Weapons of Mass Creation during the Dribbble Meetup. I sit down with two Stephanies — Steph Squared if you will — for short conversations about life, work, and a ton of random stuff, all right after this. At Creative South we love ASTUTE GRAPHICS PLUG-INS! First-time Sponsors of Creative South 2016, Astute Graphics makes innovative plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator. These popular plug-ins lead the way in imaginative tools for vector designers that significantly save time, boost creativity and achieve refined results. Astute Graphics have developed 14 popular plug-ins over the last 10 years, including VectorScribe, Phantasm, Texturino and MirrorMe, all of which are offered on a free 14-day full trial. Give them a try! Astute Graphics are currently holding their Summer Sale where they are offering up to 60% OFF their plug-ins. Usually all 14 of their plug-ins sell for £545 approxim

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. This past weekend I was in Cleveland for Weapons of Mass Creation, and I had the opportunity to record the podcast live from Vendor Village. I recorded a series of short 15 minute interviews while I was there and at the Dribbble meetup afterward, with some incredibly talented people. So, for the next several weeks we’ll be posting those interviews on Thursdays as bonus episodes. And speaking of WMC fest, my guest this week – Carlos Basabe, was the Emcee of Ink Wars at Weapons of Mass Creation. Carlos is a talented illustrator and designer, who runs his own company, Four Six Six studios, based in Washington DC. We talk about his early life in Havana, Cuba, growing up in Florida, his path to becoming an illustrator and designer and much more, on to the show! At Creative South we love ASTUTE GRAPHICS PLUG-INS! First-time Sponsors of Creative South 2016, Astute Graphics makes innovative plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator. These popular plug-ins le

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. My guest this week is Dustin Lee, owner of Retro Supply, a company specializing in resources for designers with a retro twist. Dustin and I sat down and talked about both Retro Supply and his company passive Income for Designers. As well as his path in life from initially wanting to pursue music to studying business and working at a bank, to going back to school to study design, and how that led him to being the go-to-guy for designers wanting to learn about passive income, all right after this. Weapons of Mass Creation is this week, and I’ll be doing the podcast live from the State Theater, Saturday from 10:30-12:30 Eastern. The only way you’l get to see or hear the Creative South Podcast Live is if you are at WMC Fest. You’re in luck there are still tickets available, and through the magic of the interwebs you can get your’s directly through the link in the show notes to this episode, But that’s not all! When you buy your tickets from th