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#24 How to Run the Art Department from the Gods
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
English - March 29, 2018 07:13 - 2 hours - 130 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Education artists diy dtla gallery losangeles directors installation producers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Maca rode some wild waves while Quest Nutrition jumped to the billion dollar company range, as he built one of the world's best art departments. Part of that was hiring Dino Nama, who is now Think Tank Gallery's Art Director. The two reminisce on what it took to operate on such a level, the difference of running smaller and more mobile design agencies, and break down wtf an art department even is. They also have a lot of inside jokes (just warning you). By the end of the episode we discuss what it would take to really build perfection in a design agency or art department. 7:00- Jacob obsesses over this. Srsly read it. He hasn't played Halo in seven years and still obsessed over it. https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-history-of-halo-an-oral-history
Also this is the JRE #999 with Quest Nutrition Co-Founder:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272?mt=2&i=1000391132970
10:00- Dino explains who Maca is and why they brought him to the podcast
10:20- Intro to Maca
10:55- Quest
https://www.questnutrition.com
11:20- Dino goes into detail about Maca being his mentor and what he taught him
13:13- “Your success does not end at 5pm.”
16:06- Maca explains what he does
16:22- Orcv creative director
https://www.instagram.com/blvckfish/
16:40- The idea of a creative director
20:11- How many teams have you been on? What is the range of sizes on those teams?
21:22- Dino explains what Quest is
https://www.questnutrition.com
21:59- Maca talks about when he joined Quest
23:45- Looking at Quest through the surface
26:25- Jose Prada
https://www.instagram.com/infakt
28:03- Dino at what point did you come in? How many people were there?
28:39- What Dino did before Quest
30:38- University of Long Beach
34:50- Maca talks about his and Dino’s passion projects
35:25- https://www.instagram.com/filebrand/
36:02- Tony Robins
https://www.instagram.com/tonyrobbins/
Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk
https://www.instagram.com/garyvee/
38:00- https://blog.adioma.com/how-elon-musk-started-infographic/
39:15- What was the goal for the file project? What would audiences consume?
42:28- Jacob talks about taking on a sales role
43:10- Stance socks
44:02- http://anna.vc
https://blog.adioma.com/how-elon-musk-started-infographic/
https://www.instagram.com/annavitals/
45:29- How would you separate the ideas of art and design
47:52- Design is a problem solving tool that utilizes art
48:10- Story time with Dino
51:50- Dino talks about being a FAKE vegan
56:05- What kind of art did you make before you tried going to college
1:00:05- Sweaty Betty directed by Joseph Frank and Zachary Reed
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4084912/
1:03:57- What does it mean to want to become a designer? What are the things that you need to learn?
1:05:07- Understanding how to carefully craft an image
1:05:33- Did you teach yourself photography?
1:06:47- Eric Kim
Tune into A.R.T Artists Real Talk with Eric Kim
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-r-t-artists-real-talk/id1159607075?mt=2&i=1000375908129
1:08:59- Hueman
1:11:12- Photography— working without equipment
1:12:55- Jacob asks Dino, what kind of art were you making before hand and have you kept it up?
1:14:29- Dino talks about painting in high school and doing photography in college
1:17:10- Jacob talks about when he used to market himself on social media
1:17:45- Mastery by Robert Greene
https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/014312417X
1:18:22- Do you feel artwork informs your professional creativity career or do you feel guilty that you have to set your artwork aside to focus on the other jobs you have?
1:20:44- Compromising vs Sacrificing
1:21:07- One of the ways you express your creativity is with allowing yourself to find fulfillment in the tasks you are doing by day
1:25:20- Guilt and trading your time for money
1:25:52- If you had to give advice to someone on how to make their day life fulfilling what would it be?
1:28:08- How did Quest end and how was it fulfilling enough to keep you there?
1:31:03- Define what you mean by the number one art department in the world
1:33:51- Describe to me what the greatest art department in the world would consist of
1:34:11- Maca talks about what will make a great art department
1:36:00- The creative director needs to understand the vision
1:37:31- How can you have more than one creative director?
1:38:45- Waypoint Vice Magazine - Halo
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-history-of-halo-an-oral-history
1:41:25- How are different departments that are all design departments, all split up?
1:42:03- Co creative directing
1:43:00- Copy writers
1:43:22- Jacob talks about his first marketing job
1:44:14- What is the shift in mindset as you start to grow as a company, taking on more clients
1:44:35- What is the change in mindset to go from a agency that has one creative director to having two?
1:47:21- What does a creative director do?
1:51:05- What is CMO?
1:44:08- Creative Hierarchy
1:51:32- Jacob asks Macs, “what is a design director?”
1:52:05- Jonathan Iva
https://www.apple.com/leadership/jonathan-ive/
1:53:06- What are the different things it would take if we are building the ideal agency?
1:58:13- When you envision orcv in thirty years, do you have any products that you guys are selling?
https://www.instagram.com/blvckfish/
1:59:43- When you started this agency, did you have a philosophy for the brand?
2:00:55- Built to Last by Jim Collins
https://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Essentials/dp/0060516402
2:01:35- Maca goes into detail about his story and mission for orcv
2:02:44- http://blvckfish.com/about/
2:05:09- How do you structure that mission?
2:06:33- Jacob talks about how studying Art History helped him
2:08:35- Dino talks about looking at Think Tank in the future
2:09:40- Think Tank being more involved with the community
2:12:45- Jacob asks Maca, “do you feel like it is your job to educate clients when they come to you?”
2:20:40- Debbie Millman design matters
https://soundcloud.com/designmatters
https://www.designmattersmedia.com/designmatters
Where to find Maca:
https://www.instagram.com/macamasse
https://www.instagram.com/blvckfish/
https://www.instagram.com/filebrand/
Where to find Dino: http://instagram.com/nunquandormio http://instagram.com/thinktankdtla http://thinktank.gallery
Maca rode some wild waves while Quest Nutrition jumped to the billion dollar company range, as he built one of the world's best art departments. Part of that was hiring Dino Nama, who is now Think Tank Gallery's Art Director. The two reminisce on what it took to operate on such a level, the difference of running smaller and more mobile design agencies, and break down wtf an art department even is. They also have a lot of inside jokes (just warning you). By the end of the episode we discuss what it would take to really build perfection in a design agency or art department. 7:00- Jacob obsesses over this. Srsly read it. He hasn't played Halo in seven years and still obsessed over it. https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-history-of-halo-an-oral-history Also this is the JRE #999 with Quest Nutrition Co-Founder:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272?mt=2&i=1000391132970
10:00- Dino explains who Maca is and why they brought him to the podcast
10:20- Intro to Maca
10:55- Quest
https://www.questnutrition.com
11:20- Dino goes into detail about Maca being his mentor and what he taught him
13:13- “Your success does not end at 5pm.”
16:06- Maca explains what he does
16:22- Orcv creative director
https://www.instagram.com/blvckfish/
16:40- The idea of a creative director
20:11- How many teams have you been on? What is the range of sizes on those teams?
21:22- Dino explains what Quest is
https://www.questnutrition.com
21:59- Maca talks about when he joined Quest
23:45- Looking at Quest through the surface
26:25- Jose Prada
https://www.instagram.com/infakt
28:03- Dino at what point did you come in? How many people were there?
28:39- What Dino did before Quest
30:38- University of Long Beach
34:50- Maca talks about his and Dino’s passion projects
35:25- https://www.instagram.com/filebrand/
36:02- Tony Robins
https://www.instagram.com/tonyrobbins/
Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk
https://www.instagram.com/garyvee/
38:00- https://blog.adioma.com/how-elon-musk-started-infographic/
39:15- What was the goal for the file project? What would audiences consume?
42:28- Jacob talks about taking on a sales role
43:10- Stance socks
44:02- http://anna.vc
https://blog.adioma.com/how-elon-musk-started-infographic/
https://www.instagram.com/annavitals/
45:29- How would you separate the ideas of art and design
47:52- Design is a problem solving tool that utilizes art
48:10- Story time with Dino
51:50- Dino talks about being a FAKE vegan
56:05- What kind of art did you make before you tried going to college
1:00:05- Sweaty Betty directed by Joseph Frank and Zachary Reed
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4084912/
1:03:57- What does it mean to want to become a designer? What are the things that you need to learn?
1:05:07- Understanding how to carefully craft an image
1:05:33- Did you teach yourself photography?
1:06:47- Eric Kim
Tune into A.R.T Artists Real Talk with Eric Kim
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-r-t-artists-real-talk/id1159607075?mt=2&i=1000375908129
1:08:59- Hueman
1:11:12- Photography— working without equipment
1:12:55- Jacob asks Dino, what kind of art were you making before hand and have you kept it up?
1:14:29- Dino talks about painting in high school and doing photography in college
1:17:10- Jacob talks about when he used to market himself on social media
1:17:45- Mastery by Robert Greene
https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/014312417X
1:18:22- Do you feel artwork informs your professional creativity career or do you feel guilty that you have to set your artwork aside to focus on the other jobs you have?
1:20:44- Compromising vs Sacrificing
1:21:07- One of the ways you express your creativity is with allowing yourself to find fulfillment in the tasks you are doing by day
1:25:20- Guilt and trading your time for money
1:25:52- If you had to give advice to someone on how to make their day life fulfilling what would it be?
1:28:08- How did Quest end and how was it fulfilling enough to keep you there?
1:31:03- Define what you mean by the number one art department in the world
1:33:51- Describe to me what the greatest art department in the world would consist of
1:34:11- Maca talks about what will make a great art department
1:36:00- The creative director needs to understand the vision
1:37:31- How can you have more than one creative director?
1:38:45- Waypoint Vice Magazine - Halo
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-history-of-halo-an-oral-history
1:41:25- How are different departments that are all design departments, all split up?
1:42:03- Co creative directing
1:43:00- Copy writers
1:43:22- Jacob talks about his first marketing job
1:44:14- What is the shift in mindset as you start to grow as a company, taking on more clients
1:44:35- What is the change in mindset to go from a agency that has one creative director to having two?
1:47:21- What does a creative director do?
1:51:05- What is CMO?
1:44:08- Creative Hierarchy
1:51:32- Jacob asks Macs, “what is a design director?”
1:52:05- Jonathan Iva
https://www.apple.com/leadership/jonathan-ive/
1:53:06- What are the different things it would take if we are building the ideal agency?
1:58:13- When you envision orcv in thirty years, do you have any products that you guys are selling?
https://www.instagram.com/blvckfish/
1:59:43- When you started this agency, did you have a philosophy for the brand?
2:00:55- Built to Last by Jim Collins
https://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Essentials/dp/0060516402
2:01:35- Maca goes into detail about his story and mission for orcv
2:02:44- http://blvckfish.com/about/
2:05:09- How do you structure that mission?
2:06:33- Jacob talks about how studying Art History helped him
2:08:35- Dino talks about looking at Think Tank in the future
2:09:40- Think Tank being more involved with the community
2:12:45- Jacob asks Maca, “do you feel like it is your job to educate clients when they come to you?”
2:20:40- Debbie Millman design matters
https://soundcloud.com/designmatters
https://www.designmattersmedia.com/designmatters
Where to find Maca:
https://www.instagram.com/macamasse
https://www.instagram.com/blvckfish/
https://www.instagram.com/filebrand/
Where to find Dino: http://instagram.com/nunquandormio http://instagram.com/thinktankdtla http://thinktank.gallery