One Thing Real Quick
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsA single question sparks a focused interview with a creative leader. Host and Graphic Designer Evan MacDonald invites a variety of creatives including designers, filmmakers, writers, musicians, photographers, and others who use creativity each day in their work. Each conversation sheds light on a small corner of the creative world. The show seeks to bring forward stories and insights relevant to all creative people in a spirit of inclusion and a belief that everyone has something to add to the larger conversation about design and creativity.
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Conclusion/Anticipation
July 29, 2019 14:48 - 7 minutes - 7.26 MBThanks to all who listened to season one of this podcast. Thanks to my family and all those who supported me while creating it. Thanks to John M. Craig for his editorial support. Thank's to Libro.fm for your willingness to support the show. Here is a link to the episode with Leslie Chapman: https://www.onethingrealquick.com/episode/008 See you this Fall!
Lex Noteboom of The Deca Tapes (Part 2)
May 31, 2019 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBWe’re picking up part two of an audio documentary about an audio drama. Lex Noteboom is an independent podcast creator from Amsterdam. He’s the creator of an audio drama called The Deca Tapes. It’s a sci-fi-ish dystopian-future mystery show. In March of 2018, Lex quit his job and spent a year writing, directing and producing the podcast. In this second part of the story, we follow Lex’s process week by week as he works to build an audience for The Deca Tapes. Evan interviewed Lex before, du...
Lex Noteboom of The Deca Tapes (Part 1)
May 24, 2019 10:24 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBLex Noteboom is an independent podcast creator from Amsterdam. He’s the creator of an audio drama called The Deca Tapes. It’s a sci-fi-ish dystopian-future mystery show. In March of 2018, Lex quit his job in advertising and spent a year writing, directing and producing the podcast. And then leading up to its March 2019 release, Lex started to promote the show. The Question How do you build an audience for a creative work? This is part one of a two-part audio documentary about Lex’s proces...
Rachel Alina – Mixing Engineer
May 13, 2019 10:57 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBMeet Rachel Alina, a Brooklyn-based mixing engineer, poet, and instructor at Berklee College of Music. She's been in the studio with Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Katy Perry, King Garbage, Selena Gomez, Greg Wells, Helado Negro, Stephen Marley and others. She's worked in some of today's legendary studios and learned from the best in the music business. The Question What role has mentorship played in your development as a professional creative? In this interview, we talk about Rachel's path from...
Eric Karjaluoto – Designer & Author
April 26, 2019 12:53 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBEric Karjaluoto a Vancouver BC based designer. He’s one of the two guys behind SmashLAB, a small design studio which he co-founded 19 years ago. Clients include Arc’teryx, Saltspring Soapworks, The Nature Conservancy, The Vancouver Aquarium, and a bunch more. He’s written two books, The Design Method and Speak Human. And together with his business partner, Eric Shelkie, he’s built a handful of useful side projects, including Officehours, Campnab, and Emetti, to name a few. The Question: How...
Mary Kate McDevitt – Illustrator & Lettering Artist
April 11, 2019 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBThe Guest Mary Kate McDevitt is a designer, illustrator, and lettering artist from Philadelphia. Her unique and engaging style embraces the hand-made. Her work has been featured in various print and online publications. Clients include Smuckers, Sesame Street, Nike, AT&T, Target, Nintendo, Chronical Books, and way more. She has published multiple books on illustration and lettering and she teaches workshops online and in person. Go check out her work at marykatemcdevitt.com. The Question ...
Brand Naming Expert Misty Johnson
March 29, 2019 11:00 - 18 minutes - 17.6 MBThe Guest Misty Johnson is a brand strategist with a specialty in brand naming. She has nearly 20 years experience helping brands name, rename, merge, name products, name services, and name just about anything that has to do with brands. The Question "How do you respond when people react negatively to brand name changes?" The Notes This week we’re announcing a name change for the podcast. Okay, not really, but almost. We called in an expert to discuss process of naming companies and bra...
Designing a Creative Culture
March 15, 2019 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBThis week on the podcast, we’re playing a presentation made by Evan MacDonald about creativity. Back in August of 2017, Evan was invited to speak at the International Design Conference hosted by the Industrial Designers' Society of America. He spoke about the role and importance of creativity in company culture, citing specific examples from his time as Design Director at Freefly Systems. The Question There wasn’t really a question, but here is some food for thought: “Who gets to own the l...
Dustin Lau – Film Composer & Producer
March 08, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 27.7 MBThe Guest Dustin Lau is a musician, songwriter, film composer and producer living in Redlands California, whose work appears on everything from feature length documentaries to short TV spots. He’s performed live on stages around the world, worked with other artists as a producer, and explored a broad pallet of styles and sounds in his compositions. The Question “How do you calculate the risks needed to live a creative life?” The Notes Like many full-time creatives, Dustin has made what ...
Niles Grey – Filmmaker
March 01, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 27.8 MBNiles Grey is a filmmaker and director with experience working independently and on the content teams at both GoPro and Moment. His work at GoPro and Moment has given him a unique experience leveraging the every-improving technology found in small cameras, most recently, mobile phones. The Question “What attracts you to these little cameras?” The Notes This week we discuss the benefits of shooting films with a “small footprint,” as Niles puts it. While mobile phone photography and cinema...
Graphic Designer Seth Lucas
February 22, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBSeth Lucas is an illustrator and designer with a BFA in graphic design. He is the co-creator of Ello There Outdoors, selling prints and accessories supporting the National Parks and outdoors. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his wife and daughter. The Question “What do you do about unfinished projects?” The Notes Seth was the first interview I did for this podcast. Not this episode, but another attempt at an interview, was created a year ago. After this first draft of sorts was cr...
Leslie Chapman – Goldsmith
February 15, 2019 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBLeslie Chapman is a Canadian goldsmith from Yukon Territory. In the 70’s she and her husband left Calgary Alberta as part of the “back to the land” movement, building their own home in an area that they would later discover was a gold mineral deposit. This would lead to another discovery, the art of goldsmithing. The Question: “How important is your connection with the source of your materials to your creative work and process?” Leslie shares some insights about what she calls a “chain of ...
Brad Woodard of Brave the Woods – Illustrator
February 08, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBBrad Woodard is an Illustrator and designer who, along with his wife, Krystal, operates the studio Brave the Woods. Brad has worked with Target, Baskin Robbins, Simon and Schuster, Intel, Harley Davidson, Honda and loads of others. He teaches workshops in person and online. His classes on the Skillshare platform have been taken by over 50,000 people. His work has been featured in HOW, Communication Arts, Grain Edit and more. The Question “What has been the most effective way you’ve found t...
James Best – Comedy Writer
February 01, 2019 12:00 - 25 minutes - 24 MBJames Best is an Emmy nominated television writer living in New York City. His first tv gig was writing twitter and webseries for 30 Rock. From there he wrote for VH1, Billy on the Street, and Nickelodeon's comedy/mystery show Welcome to the Wayne. Currently, he's developing comedy and animation pilots for studios in LA and writing sketches for the reboot of Studio C. But that's just what everyone does with a Master's in Poetry from NYU. The Question “How does failure fit into your creativ...
Experience Designer Lauren Celenza of Google
January 25, 2019 13:00 - 23 minutes - 22 MBNot many will argue that travel is an eye and mind opening experience. Obviously, expanding your vision is valuable to anyone working in a creative capacity. In my conversation with Google designer Lauren Celenza, I ask “What impact has travel had on your work?” This week, Lauren shares some great insights, including how to involve the people you’re designing for more directly in the design process. She shares with us stories from her travels across six contents, insights about design res...
Sinkane – Musician
January 18, 2019 15:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBUnderstanding where a creative comes from can go a long way in understanding their creative work. Sinkane (the music of Ahmed Gallab) writes music rich with references to his homeland, Sundan. In this episode, Sinkane talks about how his parents moved the family from Sudan to the United States after the government was overthrown in the late 1980’s. He answers the question, “What role does your history and your origins as a Sudanese American have on the music that you write?” Sinkane is ...
Industrial Designer David Dombrowski
January 18, 2019 15:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBThis week I ask David Dombrowski, an industrial designer with over 30 years of design experience, “How has the intangible, digital world influenced the physical objects that you design?” Tune in for our conversation about the tools we as designers use and how using them at the right time and place allows for better design. One Thing Real Quick is created by Evan MacDonald. Learn more at http://onethingrealquick.com
Filmmaker Joaquin Azulay Of Gauchos Del Mar
January 18, 2019 14:00 - 13 minutes - 13 MBJust days after returning from a 16 month surfing expedition if Africa, Joaquin Azulay of Gauchos Del Mar sat down with me to answer my question, “What’s the relationship between your passion for surfing and the craft of creating films?” In this episode, we talk about how surfing drives them to create, and how their films have become less about surfing and more about the search for waves and the people they meet along the way. Find @gauchosdelmar on Instagram for some incredible surfscape...
Annie Spratt of Unsplash – Photographer
January 18, 2019 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBAnnie Spratt is a delight. She’s a prolific amatuer photographer with thousands of photos which can be found on the covers of books, album covers, posters, greeting cards and countless other places (not bad for an amatuer!). In this episode she tells us a bit about Unsplash.com and how giving away 10 photos each day has led to some pretty amazing interactions with the folks who’ve used her photos. Get a look at Annie’s work by visiting https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt. You can also find he...