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Explore Home with Megan Molten, Founder and Creative Director of Megan Molten Design and Shop

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - January 03, 2024 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Megan Molten, founder and creative director of her eponymous design firm in Charleston, South Carolina. Tune in as Neil sits down with Megan to discuss her design career journey, the importance of building ironclad client relationships, and her forth...

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Explore Home with Yvonne Christensen and Nichole Speirs, owners of Utah-based House West Design

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - August 11, 2023 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast. This week, we invite you to explore home with Yvonne Christensen and Nichole Speirs, owners of Utah-based House West Design. Listen as Yvonne and Nichole discuss how “meeting” on Instagram led to joining forces and opening House West Design. They discuss the ...

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#20 — Justin Dauer

Growing Design - August 10, 2023 15:47 - 53 minutes
Justin Dauer is a lifelong student and practitioner of design. He was the VP of design at CVS Health a top 10, Fortune 500 company. He’s the author of two books and the founder of Anomali, his own design consultancy.  In this episode, Justin and I talk about  The importance of being a life-lon...

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Explore Home with Rydhima Brar, Founder and Principal of RTerior Studio

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - July 20, 2023 20:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Rydhima Brar, founder and principal of R/Terior Studio based in Los Angeles, California. Listen as Rydhima discusses opening her interior design business at the very start of COVID and how her previous corporate r...

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Explore Home with Carmin Black, Founder of Half United

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - April 20, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast. This week, we invite you to explore home with Carmin Black, Founder of Half United. Half United is a for-profit philanthropic company that puts helping others above profit. Selling “socially good goods,” Half United works with artisans in developing countries...

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Explore Home with John McClain, CEO and Creative Director of John McClain Design

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - April 06, 2023 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast. This week, we invite you to explore home with John McClain, CEO and Creative Director of John McClain Design. Home design is in John’s blood, his family built homes and he tagged along as a kid. This led to the discovery that he loved every aspect of home des...

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#19 — Addie Johnson

Growing Design - March 29, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes
Addie is a designer based in Richmond, Virginia. In this episode, we chat about tools to organize our work, her experience as a brand designer before switching to UX, and he fascinating work on the branding for October Audio guitar pedals. Addie’s case study on October Audio’s branding → https:...

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Explore Home with Tammy Nagem, President and CEO of the High Point Market Authority

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - March 23, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast. This week, we invite you to explore home with Tammy Nagem, President and CEO of High Point Market Authority. As the newly appointed HPMA President, Tammy describes her transition into the role and the anticipation of the upcoming Spring High Point Market.  T...

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#18 — MobilePay w/ Peter Gregersen

Growing Design - November 15, 2022 08:23 - 47 minutes
Peter Gregersen is the co-founder and Chief UX Designer of MobilePay. MobilePay is Denmark’s largest mobile payments app with more than 90% of the market.  In this episode, you’ll hear about Peter’s challenges and successes and his approach to design. If you’re into FinTech, this episode is ...

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Explore Home with Erika Ward, CEO and Founder of Erika Ward Interiors

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - September 23, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast. This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Erika Ward, owner of Erika Ward Interiors in Atlanta. Listen as Erika describes her journey from majoring in finance at the University of Georgia to working at her family-owned flooring business. There, she put he...

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Explore Home with Erika Ward, CEO and Founder of Erika Ward Interiors

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - September 23, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast. This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Erika Ward, owner of Erika Ward Interiors in Atlanta. Listen as Erika describes her journey from majoring in finance at the University of Georgia to working at her family-owned flooring business. There, she put he...

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#17 — Webflow Freelancing w/ Jonathan Fors

Growing Design - July 03, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes
Jonathan is a Webflow developer from Sweden. We spoke about the value of hands-on experience for accelerated learning and how YouTube and online content are great, free alternatives to formal education in creative fields. Connect with Jonathan https://twitter.com/JonathanFors https://www.fors...

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Explore Home with Amy Bartlam, Interior Photographer

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - June 16, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Amy Bartlam, owner of Los Angeles based Amy Bartlam Photography. Listen as Amy describes her road to becoming an interior design photographer. As a child in England, both her parents were deeply involved in the ar...

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Lizzie Benton: A Conversation about Company Culture

See Through Design - June 16, 2022 13:13 - 1 hour
In this episode of See Through Design we interview Lizzie Benton from Liberty Mind. As a company culture coach, Lizzie works with founders of start-ups and small businesses to help build purpose-driven company cultures that enable everyone to thrive at work. We discuss what company culture is, ho...

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Explore Home with Will Brinson of CBS Sports

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - April 26, 2022 20:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
 Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Will Brinson, CBS Sports Senior Writer. Listen as Will details how he went from an English major at NC State to a sports writer for CBS. Will began his career writing on sports message boards on his lunch breaks,...

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Ian Paget: A Conversation with the Logo Geek

See Through Design - April 05, 2022 13:25 - 1 hour
In this episode of See Through Design we interview Ian Paget aka Logo Geek. We discuss all things Logo Geek, including his podcast, community and forthcoming book. We also delve into his logo design process, thoughts on inspiration vs copying, logos gone wrong, what to include in your portfolio, ...

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Explore Home with Erinn Valencich or Erinn V, interior designer, real estate developer, entrepreneur and our partner on Erinn V. X Universal

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - March 29, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Erinn Valencich, interior designer, real estate developer, and entrepreneur. Listen as Erinn details how she first made her way into the design industry, starting with some special childhood roots. Neil and Erinn ...

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Explore Home with Shannon Lookabill, Director of Product Development at Universal Furniture

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - March 22, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week, we invite you to Explore Home with our very own Director of Product Development at Universal Furniture, Shannon Lookabill! Listen as Neil and Shannon first start by discussing Shannon’s journey into furniture design, beginning with influence from h...

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Colin Jackson: A Conversation with a Retired Graphic Designer

See Through Design - March 07, 2022 12:54 - 1 hour
In this episode of See Through Design we interview retired graphic designer Colin Jackson aka Liam's Dad! Being born in 1944 we discuss how Colin got into design, his education, design before the digital world, the transition from handmade to designing with computers, his process, design and care...

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Explore Home with Jonathan Vehar, Partner at Pilgrimage Professional Development Group, LLC

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - February 03, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Jonathan Vehar, Partner at Pilgrimage Professional Development Group. At Pilgrimage, Jonathan partners with organizations to help them more effectively and efficiently achieve their goals through a focus on teamwo...

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January Mashup - One Year in the Game

See Through Design - January 31, 2022 11:51 - 56 minutes
See Through Design is one year old!!!! In this episode of See Through Design we discuss January/New Year blues, the expectations we put on ourselves for the new year ahead and how we can use self awareness and mindfulness techniques to help with this in both personal and design work life. It's no...

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Adam Greasley: Having a Successful Career As a Self Taught Graphic Designer

See Through Design - January 14, 2022 13:05 - 1 hour
In this episode of See Through Design we interview logo and type designer Adam Greasley. Being a self taught designer with no formal education we discuss how Adam got into design, how he taught himself, got into the industry, how he's progressed into becoming a self employed designer specialising...

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Explore Home with Kelli Lamb, Editorial Director and Co-Principal at RUE

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - December 08, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week, we invite you to Explore Home with Kelli Lamb, Editorial Director and Co-Principal of RUE Magazine. Neil and Kelli kick their chat off by discussing more about Kelli’s professional start in blogging and how she eventually made her way to Rue Magazi...

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Being 'Out of Action' as a Freelancer

See Through Design - December 06, 2021 16:49 - 55 minutes
In this episode of See Through Design we have a discussion about being 'Out of Action' as a Freelancer. We discuss how Caz became out of action after having a cycling accident, what he has learnt from the experience and how you can put some things in place so that if you're are unable to work for...

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#16 – Ross Champan Head of Design at Obodo

Growing Design - December 04, 2021 12:26 - 50 minutes
Ross Chapman is the Head of Design at Obodo. In this episode, we talk about using workshops as a way to collaborate with clients and gather feedback, the importance of moving fast in the startup world, and using Airtable to manage your day-to-day operations. Ross' newsletter → https://www.li...

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Explore Home with Mister + Mrs. Sharp

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - November 23, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home podcast! This week we invite you to Explore Home with Patrick and Meghan Sharp of design studio Mister + Mrs Sharp. They first detail how they met — within the visual merchandising department of Banana Republic — and how their time spent in retail naturally propelled ...

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Nico Inosanto: Typography Design

See Through Design - November 22, 2021 13:31 - 1 hour
In this episode of See Through Design we interview type designer and founder of Nootype Foundry, Nico Inosanto. We discuss how he got started as a type designer, how to go about creating a font, hints and tips for people looking to start type design, type design software, font licenses, starting ...

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Explore Home with Tiffany Cassidy, principal designer of Lagnappe Custom Interiors

Explore Home - A Podcast from Universal Furniture - November 19, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to the Explore Home Podcast! This week we invite you to Explore Home with Tiffany Cassidy, principal designer of Lagnappe Custom Interiors located in St. Thomas, VI. Listen as Tiffany discusses her journey to living and working in the Caribbean, starting with earning a degree in chemistr...

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Made By James: Being Yourself And Having Patience With Your Design Career

See Through Design - October 25, 2021 09:31 - 1 hour
In this episode of See Through Design we interview logo designer James Martin aka @made.by.james. We discuss the importance of being yourself, having patience with your design career, social media, design influencers, mentors, design education, his forthcoming book, logo course, design community ...

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Seven Deadly Sins of Design: Wrath

See Through Design - October 11, 2021 11:28 - 1 hour
In this episode of See Through Design we come to the end of our 'The Seven Deadly Sins of design' series with Wrath. We discuss what makes us angry as designers and business owners, whether it be working with clients, colleagues or our own egos getting in the way. We explore how we can overcome t...