Episode 84 with James de Vries on Sea Change and See Change

In this episode we spoke with James de Vries, Principal Director of Strategy at Second Road. James has recently returned to Australia after six years working as Creative Director at Harvard Business Review, where his role centred around raising the voice of design and building the value and effectiveness of design in the company.

We spoke about the contrast between high school and design school, learning that design could be a lightning rod for strategy, how an understanding and sensitivity to good typography makes a good designer, starting a deluxe with his wife, working in the newspaper industry and learning to ‘speak editorial’ and also design, strategy and management. We also dove into his time at HBR, working with Fairfax and his new role at second road.

Special thanks to our mates at Streamtime for helping make this episode possible, checkout their approach to project management at streamtime.net

Special thanks to guest host Andy Wright for stepping in and Adobe for having us back stage at Adobe Symposium.

Listen to this episode straight from the website ausdesignradio.com or subscribe using iTunes or any podcast app. Search for ausdesignradio.

James de Vries
linkedin.com/in/james-de-vries-4ba9b03
secondroad.com.au

HBR
hbr.org

Streamtime
streamtime.net

Mental Health Study
bit.ly/mentallyhealthy18

Never Not Creative
twitter.com/nvrnotcreative

Andy Wright
twitter.com/adwrighty

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