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OnProcess

56 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings

A podcast following designers, musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers and more, exploring the details of how they get from a to b and everything in between.

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Adam Busby On Being Present

April 24, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes - 8.24 MB

Everyone has seen fight club right, well it might just hold the key to entering the creative flow state.  In this episode we draw wisdom from the pinnacles of philosophy, Brad Pitt and Kung Fu Panda Two part equation to enter the flow state: 1. Use your body and brain in unison to focus on doing one thing. 2. Do it without criticism or judgement.   -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast adambusbystu...

Kyle Steed On Art (Round 2)

April 22, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour - 119 MB

The wise, intentional, creative and incredibly heartfelt Kyle Steed is back with us for a round 2 interview! We we were able to go a bit deeper in this one having set things up last time to talk about the muse, creative resistance, whether inspiration exists and beyond. Kyle takes us through the twists and turns of his creative career including his time in the airforce. We uncover some very interesting thoughts around self belief, internal narrative and how this shapes how we view ourselves....

Adam Busby On Slowing Down To Speed Up

June 26, 2022 20:00 - 4 minutes - 6.67 MB

Log ten slow miles for every fast one. You can be slow, gentle and methodical but what you cannot be is inconsistent.   -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast adambusbystudio.com   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribing to the show in iTunes and writing us a review. Thanks for listening.

Adam Busby On Doing Nothing

June 16, 2022 20:00 - 2 minutes - 3.69 MB

When doing nothing is better than doing something. Courage, conviction and resilience, these are the tools it takes to make great art.    -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribing to the show in iTunes and writing us a review. Thanks for listening.

Adam Busby On Creative Compound Interest

June 15, 2022 04:44 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MB

Compound interest is considered to be the 8th wonder of the world, but what does it have to do with creativity? -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribing to the show in iTunes and writing us a review. Thanks for listening.

Madeline Holt On Immersive Art

June 08, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 106 MB

Madeline Holt is an incredibly considered and wise creative human that applies her hand at many different artistic outputs, most recently her practice has her working with light installations. Madeline has such a bank of wisdom that we pick through piece by piece, most of which was self taught and we learn was gleaned through trial and error. During our chat we learn about the intentional process that Madeline holds in her practice down to the colour of foods she eats, dive into her winding ...

ENESS On Interactive Public Art Installations

May 04, 2022 07:46 - 1 hour - 127 MB

I had the pleasure of speaking to Nimrod Weis, one of the co-founders of the extremely creative, highly inventive and wonderfully playful studio ENESS. ENESS is an art and technology company who design evocative interactive experiences for public, commercial and cultural entities. The work that ENESS produces is able to hit that sweet spot of art that is able delight both a 6 year old and a 60 year old simultaneously, they are also masters of balancing art, commerce, technology and design. D...

Adam Busby On Action And Momentum

March 18, 2022 04:41 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MB

Can taking action quiet the inner critic, allow you to find your voice and actually create momentum? Momentum and action are powerful forces, if you are ready and have the ability to use it to your advantage when it comes.    -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast adambusbystudio.com   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribing to ...

Adam Busby On Protecting Your Inner Artist Child

March 14, 2022 04:32 - 5 minutes - 7.76 MB

This episode was inspired by my students, who like most creatives struggle with trying to look good and get better at the same time, which is impossible.    -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast adambusbystudio.com   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribing to the show in iTunes and writing us a review. Thanks for listening.

Adam Busby On Product Vs Process

March 09, 2022 05:07 - 7 minutes - 10 MB

A new format in addition to our usual interview style episode. These episodes will be slightly more esoteric, a bit more rough around the edges, usually based around a book or quote and will be short and punchy. Hope you enjoy!    -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast adambusbystudio.com   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribin...

Gavin Strange On Directing And Design

February 16, 2022 05:55 - 1 hour - 132 MB

Gavin is a true creative polymath, stretching his hands from directing, design, music, photography, writing and speaking. Gavin has been working with the Oscar winning animation studio Aardman for 14 years, mecca of stop motion, perhaps best known for bringing to life the wonderful and childhood shaping characters Wallace and Grommit. Gav is hilarious, articulate so curious and creative, and one of the most grateful humans we have had on the show. During our chat, we go through what it's lik...

Kris Andrew Small On Art And Design

August 29, 2021 08:10 - 1 hour - 108 MB

Kris is an extremely vibrant, creative and passionate human being and his work reflects this. Kris, starting his creative journey in advertising, now works with all the big boys like Nike, Adidas and Apple just to name a few. During this conversation we hear about Kris growing up as a kid getting his start in creativity and being not the typical child creative prodigy that you might expect. Kris and I dive into how his reason to create stems from the injustices and his frustration around ine...

Kate Isobel Scott On Plasticine Illustration And Animation

August 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MB

Kate Isobel Scott is an incredibly talented artist who's chosen visual language, through mediums such as plasticine, embroidery and animation, is visceral, playful, slightly nostalgic, and completely gorgeous. Kate has a really unique ability to unapologetically move seamlessly between mediums and disciplines, bringing strengths and experiences from one creative category into another. During our chat we talk about giving ample space to explore, experiment and find your creative voice. What I...

Studio Yorktown On Mockups

July 22, 2021 05:53 - 1 hour - 90.4 MB

We are welcoming back Bruce as he is our first two time guest, coming in for an encore to take us through the gorgeous work he does with design mockups under the name Studio Yorktown. Studio Yorktown takes mockups to another level, another planet even, it's not even really fair to call anything else a mockup after looking at these. During our conversation Bruce walks us through the genesis of the company, his process and even his day to day ethos and journey in staying creatively healthy. We...

Kyle Steed On Art

May 23, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 123 MB

Kyle Steed is a fascinating, poetic and creative force based in Dallas Texas. We go from end to end in this one from the bipolar implications of social media all the way through to balancing creative work with kids and intentionally slowing down your work and process. You might hear Kyle doing some doodling during our conversation and you can even hear his markers moving across the page and the caps coming on and off in the gaps of our talk, all of which I deliberately left in the final cut ...

Kwame Bruce Busia On NFTs

April 11, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 116 MB

Kwame Bruce Busia possibly better known – especially in design circles – as StudioYorktown does many, many things with a high level of skill including being a singer/songwriter, producer, designer, photographer and entrepreneur. One of those things is having a love and knowledge for blockchain tech, crypto currencies and yes the topic of the day NFTs. I was getting pretty tired of everyone talking about NFT's but using a string of acronyms to describe another acronym, always skirting the top...

Brendan Cato On Winemaking

March 28, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 99 MB

Brendan Cato is first and foremost a chef of a very high caliber, but perhaps more pertinent to the topic of this conversation Brendan is a winemaker and roaming food forager. I loved so many parts of this conversation and we cover many aspects of winemaking, but as usual I dig deep into Brendan's process including his unique, minimal intervention and locally sourced approach to winemaking and cooking. Brendan has a unique relationship with ambiguity and experimentation that seems to drive a...

Charl Laubscher On Digital Design

March 10, 2021 06:40 - 1 hour - 119 MB

Charl is the founder and creative director of the renowned digital focussed agency Love & Money. During our conversation Charl breaks down some fascinating methodology around digital design like atomic design and memetics that, let's be honest, most of which goes way over my head, but is super fascinating nonetheless. We talk about how swiftly kicking your ego out the door might be the most beneficial thing you do in your creative process. Our conversation takes us into the intriguing ethos ...

Zhu Ohmu On Sculptural Ceramics

September 28, 2020 01:07 - 1 hour - 91.5 MB

Working under the pseudonym Zhu Ohmu, Melbourne ceramicist Rose Wei makes striking organic decorative vessels. Zhu makes the most incredible and almost visceral pieces of ceramic and all done with no formal training. During our chat we dive into how the lack of formal training has actually been a key asset to what she has accomplished. We hear Zhu's thoughts on having a mindset of play and experimentation and how having an openness to failure creates new opportunities and chances for innovat...

Daisy Watt On Weaving

September 13, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 143 MB

Daisy is an extremely intelligent, generous human that is also highly skilled at the art of weaving. This conversation take us to some incredibly interesting parts of Daisy's process, including some of the nearly unbelievable parallels and impacts that weaving has had on the development of technology as we've come to know and love it today. Basically without weaving, there wouldn't be a computer. We also dig into some deep topics like the relevance of art and music in our modern society, whi...

Damien Bredberg On Multifaceted Photography

August 30, 2020 05:18 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Damien is a multi-disciplinary photographer that has a very unique and highly conceptual way of looking through a lens. His work is theatrical, dynamic and almost surreal. Damien is renowned for his unique approach to the extraction of stories, character and emotion. We uncover some super fascinating aspects of Damien's process like how much storytelling and drawing from his own personal emotional experiences play a role in the success and impact of his photographs. During the episode we div...

Bek Hawke On Bespoke Furniture Design

August 16, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

Bek Hawke makes breathtaking modern wooden furniture by hand. Bek is the founder and creator behind Tov & Co. a hand made furniture studio. During our conversation we dive deep into Bek's creative practice and process, starting with her transition from a masters of architecture to starting, from scratch, her own furniture line. Bek shares some of her reasons for doing what she does and her deep love for being thorough and hands on in the process down to every last step and detail. We talk ab...

Patrick Thomas, 313RGB & Wayne Smith On Open_collab

August 02, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 137 MB

In this slightly more collaborative edition of OnProcess, we begin by diving in with the founder and creator of a very unique and now worldwide movement and workshop series called Open_collab. In a nutshell Open_collab is a series that focuses on serendipitous events utilising random image-making processes that provoke unexpected juxtapositions and chance encounters. During the episode we speak with the acclaimed artist, designer, educator and founder of the project Patrick Thomas, who bring...

Terry John Zila On Cheffing

July 19, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 136 MB

Terry John Zila is an incredibly passionate chef based in the midwest of America who uniquely brings a level of expertise and creativity to both sides of the kitchen. Terry is a renowned pastry and savoury chef who is absolutely poetic in the way he speaks about food. I find it remarkable how many times during the episode we find parallels in the creative journey and process between cheffing and other creative pursuits. During our conversation Terry puts to rest some longtime myths and stigm...

WEI On Music Production

July 05, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 120 MB

In this episode we speak with William Lambert a music producer, better known under the pseudonym, WEI. WEI pulls Neo-Soul and electronic music together with pop-culture infected reality to create a uniquely polished sonic landscape. His music is textural, smooth, atmospheric and all kinds of wonderful. We dive into his influences, processes and experiences living and growing up in China and Singapore and how all of this plays a pivotal role in the music he creates. Our conversation takes us ...

Mike Perry On Multi-Dimensional Art

June 21, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 161 MB

I've been a huge fan of Mike Perry for a really long time so in an effort to try not to gush I'm going to start with his bio: Mike Perry Studio is an Emmy award winning, multi-dimensional creative studio. Built on a foundation of exploration and wonder, we create without limits. The man is an absolute legend and somehow we managed to pop Mikes podcast cherry as this is his premiere, very first podcast interview! This episode is pure gold and trust me you're going to want to listen to it end ...

Brett Piva On Raising Control

June 07, 2020 06:00 - 58 minutes - 81.3 MB

Brett is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, signwriter, conference host and the list goes on, and in this episode we cover quite a bit but we largely focus in on his artist residency in Japan and his most recent work that plays on the theme of control. Brett takes us through his thoughts on using the lack of control as a positive rather than a negative. We get a peek inside a day in the life of Brett during his residency in remote Itoshima which included collecting local leaves and branch...

Bobby Alu On Making Music

May 24, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 135 MB

Bobby is an extremely talented multi instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and was such a blast to have on the show. We go into Bobby's process of making music and all that comes with it from touring, to recording, playing gigs live vs in the studio, instruments, gear and beyond. We get a special bonus round of process too as Bobby breaks down his process and principles of how to nap well. Bobby takes us through his love for the process and how he went from being in 12 bands, busking on the ...

Joyce N. Ho On Motion Design

May 10, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 92.8 MB

Joyce is a Hong Kong born, Australian designer, based in New York City who absolutely destroys in the motion design space. What's always drawn me to her work is the unique blend of digital and analogue textures and emotion that come with it. During the episode we get into some fun corners of the creative process including talking with Joyce about the challenges and wins of her moving to New York. We pick apart piece by piece some title projects and work she did with Hasan Minaj for his wonde...

Andy Hoyne On Place Visioning

April 26, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 91.5 MB

Andy brings to the table 30 years of experience running one of the most prevalent and successful place making agencies around. Hoyne specializes in branding, strategy and marketing for new developments and this all goes in a basket that Hoyne has trademarked called Place Visioning. During our chat Andy brings us through the process of working on multi billion dollar deals, collaborating with everyone from architects to city planners and how he continues to stay excited along the way. We also...

Chloe Smith On Making Soft Food

April 12, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 112 MB

Chloe is a unique artist, and one that I couldn't wait to chat to. Simply put but definitely not simply made, she makes soft food. Created using only wool and thread, she creates one of a kind, intricate sculptures replicating everything from Japanese cleaning supplies to cans of tuna in a really subversive and somehow hilarious way. During the episode we touch on imposter syndrome and how Chloe battles with some of the stereotypes and typecasting that comes with the territory. We cover some...

The Stone Willow Studio On Floral Design

March 29, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 113 MB

This episode takes us to some insightful, intentional and almost spiritual places and Ani of The Stone Willow Studio brings us there while we dive into her art and practice of floral design. Using a technique called Ikebana which dates back to the 6th century, Ani's process is rooted in many layers of symbolism and mindfulness. During the episode we talk about the power of learning to let go of control during the creative process, being unattached from the final outcome and how being present...

Five Mile Radius On Locally Sourced Architecture

March 15, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MB

Five Mile Radius is an extremely fascinating and uniquely intentional architecture studio that focuses on using locally sourced materials. Five Mile Radius is not only pushing the boundaries of materials used in their visually stunning projects, but also challenging the ethics and practices typically used in architecture firms. During this episode Claire takes us through the core ethos of what they do and how it revolves around the focus of being interested in creating buildings that are bor...

Barry Spencer On Experimental Typeface Design

March 01, 2020 07:12 - 1 hour - 119 MB

Barry Spencer is literally a doctor of typography, with an honours dissertation on the essence of latin letterforms and a doctoral thesis to back it up! Perhaps more importantly though, Barry is an avid experimenter and creator using typography as his canvas, challenging the very boundaries and questioning the very form of what makes a letterform. Barry is quoted as often making letters that may or may not look like letters. During our chat, we break open his experimental process behind maki...

Daniel Wearne On Digital Product Design

February 16, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 129 MB

The digital product design space has to be one of the fastest moving sectors of design, and Daniel Wearne sits smack bang in the middle of it. With a decade of design experience in the tech startup space and degrees in Computing, Multimedia, Game Design and Computer science Daniel shares some hugely valuable insights, principles and processes that he is using with his team to build some of the most forward thinking, hi-tech and also hi-empathy apps on the market. During our chat we cover a l...

Dodgy Paper On Handmade Recycled Paper

February 02, 2020 05:00 - 55 minutes - 77.3 MB

With a wonderfully unorthodox start to the skill set, Dodgy Roger of Dodgy Paper takes us through his genesis and process of what is such a unique, fascinating and also steeped in literally thousands of years of tradition, the art of making paper. What Dodgy Paper brings to the foreground is not just the use of recycled paper, but using this feature as a focal point, embracing the irregularities rather than hiding them. Dodgy takes things as far ranging as candy wrappers and parking fines tr...

Rick Hayward On Creative Progression

January 19, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Known as one half of South East Queensland based creative duo Frank & Mimi, Rick Hayward is now translating 15 years of traditional sign writing and 8 years of collaborative public art into a contemporary studio and public art practice. During our chat, we start with Rick taking us through the beautiful process, history and technique of hand painting signs. Sign writing is extremely fascinating in how it strikes a balance of part utilitarian product and part high level of craftsmanship, deta...

Alex Naghavi On Creative Direction

January 05, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 97.7 MB

Alex Nahavi is the Executive Creative Director at the forward thinking design studio Josephmark. Josephmark is a venture studio, which is an incubator model, where they utilize resources and facilities to make ideas that they want to see in the world whether self funded or raising capitol with investors. We talk pitching and investing, viability and creative direction from this unique point of view. We talk about how important big ideas and blue sky thinking is in the process, while also bei...

Richie Meldrum On Brand Strategy

December 08, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 144 MB

Richie Meldrum started off as a writer, struggled as a journalist, turned into a copywriter and came out as a strategist. Currently a writer, strategist and creative strategy director at behaviour and culture change consultancy Interchange. Richie has worked in brand and digital agencies in the UK and Australia, collaborating with designers, technologists, project managers, clients and loads of other incredibly smart people that do things he can’t. Over the years, He's learnt how to use his ...

Hungry Workshop On Letterpress Printing

November 17, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Hungry Workshop is not your average print studio, they are a powerhouse creative studio that is part letterpress specialty printing, part design studio that pride themselves on partnering with creative people, agencies and brands, creating intimate, physical moments. Run by the dynamic duo Simon and Jenna Hipgrave, this studio pumps out an exceptionally high standard of work in everything they touch. Summing up the ethos behind their work is the phrase "For work that holds weight" and if you...

Hungry Workshop on Letterpress Printing

November 17, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Hungry Workshop is not your average print studio, they are a powerhouse creative studio that is part letterpress specialty printing, part design studio that pride themselves on partnering with creative people, agencies and brands, creating intimate, physical moments. Run by the dynamic duo Simon and Jenna Hipgrave, this studio pumps out an exceptionally high standard of work in everything they touch. Summing up the ethos behind their work is the phrase "For work that holds weight" and if you...

Magda Ksiezak On Paper Craft

November 10, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

I love Magda's ability to push her craft to the absolute maximum. Experimenting on a daily basis, using different techniques and technologies to create innovative and unique work using only paper. Magda is extremely skilled in the very unique and tactile art of paper craft. Her versatile skill-set has brought her to working alongside some very well known clients such as KFC and Dulux where she beautifully manipulates paper to create a piece of art that is often animated as well! We talk abou...

Alex Grigg On Animation

October 27, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 121 MB

Pretty excited to be introducing animation juggernaut Alex Grigg, someone whom I've been a fan of for quite some time. His work is incredibly emotive, full of texture and uniquely physical and tactile motion. We talk through a few of Alex's award winning short films going behind the scenes into his workflow and how it has changed and refined over the years. Alex blends a beautiful experimental and almost improvisational feeling into his films and we get to talk though how this particular sty...

Spencer Harrison On Visual Art

October 13, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 98.2 MB

Spencer is a fascinating visual artist and perhaps summarizing his work best is his biogrpahy which states "Inspired by his background in science, Spencer draws from the scientific method, building his practice around a methodology of questioning, experimentation and perpetual curiosity." During our chat we uncover Spencer’s broad and deep reading habits along with his extremely intricate pre-exhbitiion workflow and preparation. He dishes out some really helpful links and resources he uses t...

Gangplank On Design Sprints

September 29, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB

Gangplank is the award winning mastermind of creative powerhouses Brenton Craig & Tia Queen. The studio is unique in how they were founded with a vision to invigorate brands with equal passion and pace through a collaborative, nimble and proudly unconventional approach. It is incredibly insightful to hear the interworking of how a design sprint is run, and it's not all that you think, less about speed an d more about efficiency, these guys are pros at building rapport, trust and connection r...

Claire Foxton On Painting A Mural

September 15, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

You have to see Claire Foxton's work in person to believe it, the term large scale mural artist doesn't even begin to do her justice. Her work and style is immediately recognizable, powerful on many levels and uniquely intimate with the portraits she paints. We dive into some incredibly fascinating parts of her process and walk through in incredible detail, step by step how she manages to paint photorealistic portraits on buildings as high as 8 stories tall! Claire get's very honest during o...

Ashley Ronning On Risograph Printing

September 01, 2019 06:00 - 42 minutes - 59 MB

We jump behind the scenes of a slightly nostalgic, wonderfully tactile and uniquely analogue process of something called Risograph printing. From very humble and mundane beginnings to a countercultural tool, if you haven’t heard of Risograph printing, you are in for a real treat. We delve into some juicy details in this one, and we completely print nerd out with the Risograph champion Ashley Ronning. Ashley opens her mind into all things riso, from the origin story, zine culture, serendipito...

Kiel Tillman On Digital Illustration

August 18, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 114 MB

Kiel Tillman is the absolute sweet spot of when artistic freedom meets professional practice. He takes a fun and lighthearted approach to his work while being balanced on the business side and oozes his personality into everything he does. His work is absolutely packed with detail and shows a real love for the craft. His incredible style is most impressive in the way Kiel seems to seamlessly transfer across from branding, illustration and large scale murals. During the episode we dig into Ki...

Alex Kirchner On Fashion Filmmaking

August 04, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MB

Alex Kirchner is a very talented video producer, and in this episode we get to hear the wonderful mechanical details of what its like to shoot on film. We talk through a specific project from end to end, and Alex expands on some of the reasons behind his creative direction and decision making. From challenges of using a volatile medium like film in a commercial setting, to on set egos, finding a french voice over artist, deciphering clients ambiguous briefs and even some money management too...

Jacinta Conza On Starting An Event

July 21, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 83.9 MB

Jacinta Conza is one driven and disciplined human being. Originally from Auckland New Zealand, Jacinta has taken the event scene by storm by starting the very first Brisbane, Australia chapter of Creative Mornings. Against all odds including having zero event experience, feedback from all sides saying it was a bad idea or couldn’t be done, went on to sell out over 30 events in a 3 year period. During the episode we go into what makes a good event, good, why people might be more willing than ...

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