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Learn from the superstars turning content into cash! From social media influencers to small local businesses, people everywhere are harnessing the power of creative tools to design not just brands and content, but also deeply satisfying careers. In the Making explores the practical challenges and surprising rewards of working in this new creator economy. Join Adobe’s Teresa Au for conversations with content creators, solopreneurs, and industry experts who offer inspiration and insight for co ...
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I'm Rob Johnston, a designer and photographer based in New York City. I am also the founder of Meet the Creatives - a podcast that seeks to bridge the gap between entry-level creative professionals and the industry's best. Through the podcast, live events and various social platforms, I am building a community that connects thousands of entry-level creatives from around the world. The show has featured guests from companies like Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Twitter, Disney, Nike, Huge, Sesame ...
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Emma Orhun is a creative multi-tool: a content creator, graphic designer and walking science experiment. She has gone from being a software developer and creative technologist at Shopify to full-time freelance designer working with local and international brands. You can find her work on the bottom of Nike SB shoes and all over the internet. Combin…
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Teresa Au chats with graphic designer Magdiel Lopez about all the spaces for creativity in his life, from his famous “A Poster A Day” project, to his personal artistic practice, to the buildings and offices that his firm transforms into art-filled, meaningful spaces. They also discuss how immigration shapes your thinking, mental health in the face …
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For this bonus episode, host Teresa Au shares a conversation between design superstar and In the Making guest Chris Do and graphic designer Liz Mosley. Liz candidly reveals how Chris’ (very polite!) refusal to appear on her podcast inspired her to take on a personal challenge of gaining 100 professional rejections in six months. The surprising resu…
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Teresa Au talks to the legendary founder of Creative Mornings and design blogging pioneer Tina Roth Eisenberg, also known as swissmiss. They explore how Tina’s love of gathering and community both feeds her soul and has led to three thriving design businesses. Tina shares the next big idea from CreativeMornings, the importance of experiments, and w…
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Teresa Au checks in with Instagram’s favorite photo director, Emily Keegin, about how photographers are doing these days. They look at how AI is just the latest technical breakthrough in the medium, what people can do that AI can’t, and the best way to think about trends. Plus, Emily shares tips for creators and solopreneurs to find and create grea…
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Teresa Au talks with PiXimperfect’s Unmesh Dinda, who teaches Photoshop to over 6 millions followers via fun and accessible videos. They discuss Unmesh’s passion for teaching, his philosophy of progress over perfection, and the challenges of running a creative business. Plus, Teresa asks the hard questions to find out if Unmesh himself was created …
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Best of MTC: Live AMA with Ben Crick, Apple Design Team , Former Partner & Creative Director at COLLINS 🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives! 🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet the Creatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stay connected: 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.Meetthe…
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'Meeting Olivia Rodrigo at The White House' Hannah Cecille, Creative Producer at Instagram Live from The Walker Hotel in Tribeca, New York 🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives! 🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet the Creatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stay connected: 🖥️ Meet …
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'The Importance of Maintaining Relationships' Ivy Ross, VP, Head of Design for All Hardware Products at Google🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.Meet…
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'Fame is a Spotlight, Mastery is the Sun' Brian Collins x Chris Do Q&A Session – Recorded at COLLINS: in Brooklyn, New York 🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives! 🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet the Creatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stay connected: 🖥️ Meet the Creatives W…
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Best of MTC: Pye Jirsa, Photographer, Educator, and Author🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: Follow…
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Unmesh Dinda, Founder, PiXimperfect🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: Follow @_robjohnston- 🌐 Meet …
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For this bonus episode, host Teresa Au shares chats hosted by her Adobe colleagues Kladi Vergine and Elise Swopes. First we hear from Jack Watson, a brand designer, solopreneur, and social media star–all at just 21 years old. Jack shares how he discovered design tools, his foray into concert promotion, and how an international retailer found his wo…
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Teresa Au chats with artist Shantell Martin about how not fitting in–growing up in London, going to art school, and living in Japan–forced her to really know herself and launched her creative career. Shantell’s trademark continuous line art represents her quest to understand what makes us each unique, and to find ways for us to connect to one anoth…
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Sarah Rebar is an illustrator/writer based in sunny LA. She earned her BFA in illustration and design from Syracuse University.For nine years, she worked as an in-house artist for the kid’s TV show, Sesame Street, drawing muppets and working on projects for TV, publishing, and digital. She collaborated to create new muppets for Ahlan Sim Sim, an in…
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For this bonus episode, host Teresa Au shares talks from Adobe MAX London, Adobe’s flagship event in Europe for learning and inspiration. First we hear from Rachel Sale, a UK-based illustrator who is currently an Adobe Creative Resident at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Rachel shares what it’s like to actually work in a museum, have access to…
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Tell us a little bit about yourself so we know who we're serving and what you're looking for from In the Making: adobe.ly/itmsurvey Teresa Au chats with artist and designer Kelli Anderson on all the things transformation, from Kelli’s paper engineering work that turns paper into a record or a camera to the shifting revenue streams she’s embraced ov…
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We want to hear from YOU, our listeners, so we put together a brief survey. We'd appreciate your thoughts: https://adobe.ly/itmsurvey To thank you for your feedback, we’re giving away two 12-month memberships to Creative Cloud (valued at $659.88 each). Enter for your chance to win one of the two Creative Cloud licenses by completing the survey form…
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Teresa Au chats with author, speaker, and entrepreneur Michael Ventura about what empathy really is and how it can help your design work and your business. Michael describes applied empathy–the idea that empathy isn’t just putting yourself in someone else’s shoes–it’s about better understanding what it’s like to be someone else in their own shoes. …
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'How Mathieu Bitton Became Dave Chappelle's Photographer' with Mathieu Bitton, Grammy-Nominated Leica Ambassador, Photographer & Designer🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the …
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TBT: The Walker Hotel Presents MTC Live with Rich Tu, Partner, Executive Creative Director, Educator🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreativ…
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'Looking Back on the Early Days of The Handmaid's Tale' with Burton LeBlanc – Makeup Artist | Dept Head | Designer for The Handmaid's Tale🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the…
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How to Create Your Own Work with Art Streiber, Photographer🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: Follo…
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In the Making kicks off season two with Teresa Au interviewing Vanessa Rivera of The Life of AIVAX about her whimsical Photoshop art and how she balances a time-consuming creative career with a family as a working mom. Vanessa talks about creative tools that save her time in her work, how she and her family left their home to travel in Europe for a…
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'Dealing with Difficult Clients' Brian Collins x Chris Do Q&A Session – Recorded at COLLINS: in Brooklyn, New York🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.…
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🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: Follow @_robjohnston- 🌐 Meet the Creatives Linktree: Explore Lin…
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Best of MTC: Aaron I Butler, 2x Emmy Winning Editor for EUPHORIA🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: …
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Best of MTC: Colin Watkinson, Director of Photography on The Handmaid's Tale🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's…
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'Working with Martin Scorsese on Goodfellas and Having Dinner with His Parents' with Barry Wetcher, Motion-Picture Stills Photographer for Iconic Movies like I Am Legend, Sherlock Holmes, and More! 🎞 📸🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founde…
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Season 2 is almost here! In the Making explores the challenges and rewards of working in the creator economy. Subscribe now to join host Teresa Au as she talks to creatives, soloprenuers, and experts to find out how they thrive at work–and how you can, too! Teresa Au (@tautastic) is an executive for community engagement at Adobe, where she focuses …
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BEST OF MTC – 'Fear is a Friend Who's Misunderstood' 10 Ways in Which Fear is Stopping You from Unlocking your Creative Potential 🧡🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creati…
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'Color Theory & Shadows' with Malika Favre 🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: Follow @_robjohnston-…
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'The Crooked Path' with Lisa Smith, Executive Creative Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Ro…
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'All About Adobe' with Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer at Adobe, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.Meet…
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'The Songwriting Process' with Jeremiah Fraites, Co-Founder of The Lumineers🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's…
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The Season 8 Premiere of Meet the Creatives with Michael Bierut, Partner at Pentagram. Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. He worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates before joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990.His clients…
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Josh Telles, Photographer🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: Follow @_robjohnston- 🌐 Meet the Creati…
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Best of MTC: Paula Scher, Partner at Pentagram www.MeettheCreatives.org 🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives! 🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet the Creatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stay connected: 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org 📸 Rob Johnston's In…
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Best of MTC: 'Concept to Concert' with Sooner Routhier, Lighting Designer for Coldplay. Production Designer for Panic at the Disco, The Weeknd, KISS, Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, Rhianna, Pentatonix, Jay-Z, Halsey and More.🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet th…
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'The Unlikely Success of The Goosebumps Series' with Illustrator Tim Jacobus🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's…
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Vanessa Joy, Photographer🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸 Rob Johnston's Instagram: Follow @_robjohnston- 🌐 Meet the Creati…
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In a podcast episode, Rob Johnston emphasizes the importance of learning from existing creative portfolios to develop one's design skills. He suggests creating an inspiration board, using tools like Pinterest, to broaden one's visual vocabulary by exploring and remixing established designs. Rob underscores that drawing inspiration from a wide range…
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In this episode of Meet the Creatives, Rob shares his personal journey of battling self-doubt, overcoming failure, and the constant need to prove himself. He highlights the importance of self-compassion and reflection, emphasizing that life can be both a letdown and surprisingly beautiful. Rob's key message revolves around humility, patience, and f…
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In this insightful episode with Photographer Valheria Rocha, the conversation not only explores the challenges of starting in photography but also delves into Valheria's remarkable journey that led her to photograph the album cover for Taylor Swift's 'Lover.' Valheria shares personal experiences, emphasizing the importance of embracing limitations,…
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In this Meet the Creatives Live episode from 2020, Rob and artist Gemma O'Brien share insights on overcoming setbacks and experimentation. They also introduce their cats, who may or may not be related. 🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its found…
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Rob Johnston and Julie Zhuo, former VP of Design at Facebook discuss the challenges of building connections in large corporate environments like Facebook. They address the fear and assumptions that hinder individuals from seeking mentorship, emphasizing the importance of overcoming these barriers. Julie encourages proactive initiatives, stressing t…
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In this clip from Meet the Creatives, Jean Batthany and Rob Johnston engage in a conversation about their personal journeys during the pandemic. They touch on themes of prioritizing family and making positive life changes. Both discuss their paths to sobriety and the impact it had on their lives. The conversation also delves into the importance of …
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In this clip with Jean Batthany, former VP of Global Creative at Walt Disney Parks, Experiences, and Consumer Products, the discussion centers around the intrinsic value of nostalgia in storytelling and creativity. Jean shares insights from her Disney experience, highlighting the need for a balance between left-brain and right-brain thinking, where…
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LIVE Q&A in Los Angeles Featuring Neri Rivas, VP of Creative Advertising at 20th Century FoxNeri Rivas is an award-winning Creative Director whose background includes work on global and domestic marketing campaigns for theatrical film and Hispanic advertising for brands such as NIKE, HONDA, Jack In The Box and the NBA. His passion for graphic desig…
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'Networking and Not Being Afraid of No' Julie Zhuo, Former VP of Product Design at Facebook🎙️ Connect with Rob Johnston and Explore Meet the Creatives!🌐 Dive into the world of creativity and inspiration with Meet theCreatives and its founder, Rob Johnston! Here's how you can stayconnected:- 🖥️ Meet the Creatives Website: www.MeettheCreatives.org- 📸…
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