003 - Josh Boston

Josh Boston is a designer living in Portland, Oregon USA. He likes turtles.

www.joshboston.com

@heyjoshboston

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 0:00 - Intro

  9:00 - Interview Start: What should the intro music be?

 11:30 - Portland & The Simpsons

 13:00 - How Josh & I met

 15:00 - Growing up in the middle of Missouri

 16:15 - Josh & Kevin’s Bromance

19:30 - First memorable piece of design

23:15 - First experiences with the internet

24:30 - Rudimental Drumming

25:15 - Ol’ Town Road Story & Hip Hop’s Influence

29:15 - Learning basic web design

31:45 - Old online design portals

33:30 - Seth Ericson

35:00 - Being young & dumb

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36:40 - Meeting Michael Cina

41:00 - Moving to California

42:45 - Gary Benzel/Green Lady

44:30 - Getting better at design

48:00 - Wanting to switch careers

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51:15 - “It’s not easy to be creative for a living. There’s peaks and valleys and there’s times when you’re kinda numb or you maybe had a good year then a bad year. I’m not trying to say this in a negative way, but it’s not discussed as much publicly. I think it’s discussed a lot in one-on-one coffee meetings, but you’re not seeing it from the stage in design conferences.” 51:48

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52:00 - Working at Lambesis

54:00 - The luster of working on big brands

57:00 - Alex Bogusky

1:00:00 - Working then and now

1:01:00 - Seasons of being a creative professional

1:03:15 - Big agency work-life / Missouri / Back to California

1:09:00 - Basic Agency

1:11:00 - Ego & work

1:16:00 - Original content

1:21:00 - Working at CPB

1:23:00 - Working at W+K

1:25:00 - Working on a 6 month project that never got made

1:29:00 - Creating separation from your hired work

1:34:00 - Working within restraints

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1:36:30 - Going independent

1:40:30 - Loving being laid off

1:44:00 - Throwing a recess party in a loft

1:47:00 - Freelancing means you need to be good with your money

1:49:00 - Starting up an agency

1:54:00 - Doing work that solely pays the bills 

1:56:00 - Rules for social media

2:00:00 - Know where your money is going

2:02:00 - Jocko Wilink

2:03:30 - Throwing your back out

2:07:00 - Taking youth for granted

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2:08:45 - Freelancing

2:11:30 - Success without social media

2:15:00 - Brain Pickings / Maria Popova

2:16:30 - Mike Cina Great Discontent Interview 

2:21:00 - Designers who merge their personal life with their work

2:24:00 - Cultivating taste

2:28:00 - Studios with only one style

2:29:30 - Be careful when criticizing younger creators

2:37:30 - Designer Radar: Braulio Amada, Brian Collins, Tobias Van Schneider, Mike Cina 

2:44:00 - Compare/Contrast with Michael Eastman podcast

2:45:30 - The benefits of knowing design

2:46:00 - Outro