Brian Slagel followed passion his entire life, and that passion was his love of Heavy Metal Music. Brian found Iron Maiden and then saw the path he would pursue the rest of his life. Enjoy an episode that celebrates following what you love and letting the rest of life fall into place. Website: https://www.metalblade.com Instagram: https://www.i ...…

Are you lost or directionless? And what’s the difference between the two? Do you have a goal, do you have a plan to get there? How are you going to know what you want, how can you make decisions if you don’t have one of life’s major hacks figured out?

The Attractions of Pixar Pier explores the history, design, theming and future of Disney’s California Adventures pier. All five attractions are broken down into a deep dive of their design, technology and place in this land. For Circle of Trust members only, a conversation about the evolution of this land into the future and how can design poss ...…

Jim Gray is a lot of things, professional skateboarder, skateboard company owner, and producer, marketing and advertising genius, a real-estate agent, a dad, a print shop owner, but the one thing he's most proud of being is outspoken. This is his story, and it's fantastic! Website: http://www.inkgenda.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gr ...…

Billy returns from Expo West Natural Food Convention and shares his strategy of pounding the pavement to find new clients at this large convention. After working in the packaging sector for a decade, Delicious Design League decided to get proactive about acquiring the work that they know they are overqualified for. Did they find their next long ...…

The rules are simple, show up and talk about whatever comes up and then pass this conversation over to a friend to come on and do the same. A longtime friend of the show Emir Ayouni of the Forefathers Group shares his Sweedish origins and how he discovered that restraint makes for the best brand illustrations. Website: http://www.growcase.com/ ...…

Lincoln Design Co. returns from a jam-packed fall and holiday season to take us on their corporate retreat that Mark Brickey will help explain how this is social media done right. Dan and Dustin also give insight into recent branding marks created for Nike at Superbowl 53, which opens the conversation of the three major design principles that L ...…

A special version of Shop Talk featuring 9 of the Training Camp team members. Each sharing what they learned on the journey and how the tools shared by Mark Brickey will help them each better navigate their creative futures.

4 Topics - 20 Minutes Each with Jeral Tidwell How to get your creativity back/flowing. The problem with setting strict goals as a creative. What not to do when you are a weekend warrior freelance artist. The aging of style.

DKNG is back from Flatstock 69 during SXSW at Austin, Texas. They share with us the state of gig poster industry, teach us how to make custom slot machines in Adobe Illustrator and talk about the politics of political design.

Are you ready to take a lap around Disneyland with Mark & Jerrod and explore The Quiet Spaces of Disneyland? Listen the guys share what it meant to be hired to do illustration work for the park and does Galaxy’s Edge seem to be a tribute to the design principles of Walt’s 1955 American classic Disneyland.…

Biggie takes us all to the Grammys, and Hammer takes us to Salt & Straw. Gus breaks into Disney's California Adventure for Anaheim Ducks Day, and pop-culture painter Jason Edmiston brings chocolate from Canada. To hear the full version of today's episode become a member of the Circle of Trust: http://aid.network/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.co ...…

Pick your poison video, or audio versions are available of today's podcast recorded as a Live Stream on YouTube. Which meant a handful of listeners hung out and asked Brickey all kinds of questions for today's show. I think you'll be surprised at home much of a hangout conversation it turned out to be! Do you enjoy this? Is this something you w ...…

What we've been watching on YouTube. How to find a channel that fits in your life? Identifying creators that you identify with. The ROI of content creation. What do creators owe their audience? To hear the full version of today's episode become a member of the Circle of Trust: http://aid.network/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/adventures ...…

Heather Grimaldi & Denise Voight are the founders of Super Spectrum Kids a daily multivitamin to help nourish children on the Autism spectrum. This project will not be an easy one to pull off with the government regulations and crowded market space. However, I think you'll find these ladies have the passion to pull it off. A great episode for c ...…

A Weekly Look At Entertainment From The Creative Professional’s Perspective Braid • The Grammy's • The Lego Movie • Lords of Chaos • One Day At A Time • PEN15 • ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke • Russian Doll • Tropical Cop Tales • The Unicorn • The Walking Dead • White Dragon • Velvet Buzzsaw • AND TONS & TONS OF INDUSTRY NEWS…

Anderson Bluu is back to share the goods news of his very own set of sneakers dropping for Foot Locker and Asics. The Sneakers will be available on Feb. 21st at www.footlocker.com Get all the details by going to www.bluudreams.com or by following @Anderson_Bluu on Instagram. Proud of You Bluu!

The gang is all together and reviewing some of the worst ads ever to air on TV as sent in by Circle of Trust members.

It's time for Delicious Design League to get more proactive about finding new work, hear how they hope to pull it off! Can Billy help Mark figure out a career pickle that has haunted him for the last few years? Which application of design is Billy’s true love? And what’s cool these days? 5 people will listen and find out.…

A weekly look at new happenings on the horizon of TV, FILM and YouTube. This week: Jeff Bridges Appears as His ‘Big Lebowski', The Handmaid's Tale Adds Chris Meloni and Elizabeth Reaser, HOMECOMING without Julia Roberts, The First - The Terror and Suits all return but who cares? Mad Men alums return on Netflix with Spinning Out and Let It Snow. ...…

It’s a new year and time for a new you the boys evaluate their personal health journeys who could do a little bit better who needs to get into the game and who’s beating who at the game at fitness. Brickey learns he has a new outlook on life and the audience hands out the Cheesecake Factory awards from last weeks competition. All of this and so ...…

Was Evel Knievel really a bank robber? We know he was a legend and hero to many but was he also an idiot? Could it be possible that those we idolize are just as flawed as us? Listen and find out how Robert Craig Knievel Jr. inspired Mark Brickey to be just fearless and more than a little stupid.

What does it mean to get as close as possible to the root source of your product? Find out how getting to step one of the coffee game in 2018 is going to make for a wild 2019 for the Thunder King gang! In the Circle of Trust hear a recorded business meeting between Brickey and the king.

Bang The Turkey Drumstick because its time for some Thanksgiving Shop Talk. Fill up your plate and meet Mark, Billy, and OK Pants over at the Kid's Table for a double helping the advice you can only get from AID. Business is on everyone's mind as the holidays approach from that one big job that always stretches you to your limits to planning ou ...…

A special Thanksgiving Shop Talk with Dave Kloc and Justin Kamerer where we celebrate our professional and personal victories in 2015, talk about what we hope to accomplish in 2016 and each give our thanks for the happiness that we have been able find through pursuing our talents.

The Logo Show with Dan Stiles and Billy Baumann looks at “The Top 50 T-Shirt Logos Of All Time”. What do we learn about this HUGE batch of cultural icons and our design in the process? Join the Circle of Trust at https://aid.network/ to hear the complete two-hour episode that is full of design talk with over 50 years of experience from our pane ...…

Joe Ledbetter explains to Adventures In Design how he got on the path of working full time creating prints, paintings and toys all under his very distinct illustration style. Check out all of Joe's new work this weekend at Designer Con in Pasadena, California where he will be exhibiting at booth 934 and appearing on the Consumer/Collector food ...…

Ghoulish Gary Pullin has pulled out his favorite 13 creepiest prints from 2018 and while doing so he found Jason Edmiston as well. Listen along as we study why these prints are successful as illustrations, graphic design pieces and items of creep! Join the Circle of Trust to follow along with all of today's images and to get 46 more minutes of ...…

It's been a pleasure and an honor to spend the last 960 episodes with each of you. Enjoy the final episode. Good Bye & Good Design!

Mark shares his plans for creating Wake Up Call Season 02 "The Hardcore Years." What's different, what's the same and why did he adjust the "Wake Up Call" game plan? Take a look back at the top 5 episodes from season one and hear Mark's response as listens to these episodes for the first time since he recorded them. Today's episode has over 30 ...…

Scott Ritcher is a man out of time, or shall we say from a different time; he always could see ahead of the curve and would do many things that society wouldn't discover for years to come. However, there's a pain to knowing too much and boredom that comes with accomplishment, when your real pride isn't the project in front of you but instead wh ...…

To celebrate Wake Up Call returning Monday, October 1 we look back on the top 10 most downloaded episodes. Join Mark Brickey as he shares his excitement on the return of his popular podcast of daily PMA as he listens back to the most popular episodes and responds to how these emotional time capsules make him feel. Mark also shares some of the e ...…

Apple gets horny with its new triple X line of iPhones. Who should buy the new Apple Watch and which of the new iPhones is the best buy? For Circle of Trust Members, we go in deeper on exploring how Jake Paul may be breaking the law by influencing your kids to spend money by scaring them. Mark reads listeners suggestions for the Adventures In D ...…

17 years ago today the world changed forever and so did my world. I look back to where I was at on the day the world stop spinning, who I spent it with and how this moment in time accidentally forever changed my life in a very beautiful way. If you want to pass on today’s episode no hard feelings. You can also find me today interviewing Masters ...…

Today we explore the onion that is society and how a new movement of black produced entertainment seems ready to take it all on. How does the movie Blockers and many other Hollywood projects accidentally reinforce the Make America Great movement? All of this and a look at September TV, cinema and in the Circle of Trust a breakdown of the AID Yo ...…

Adventures In Design is excited to be back to kick off the fall season our first of 70 brand new episodes brings us to comment below where Mark and Sean talk about their excitement for fall television, September movies and bring you up-to-date on all of the latest YouTube drama. Circle of trust members make sure to listen to the episode find ou ...…

A ten-part podcast series featuring interviews with creative professionals embedded in the entertainment industry. Brickey interviews these guests not only about their industry talents but also about their unique ways of breaking into Hollywood. To better guide you on how to make the entertainment-based career journey yourself. To Hear The Comp ...…

A ten-part podcast series featuring interviews with creative professionals embedded in the entertainment industry. Brickey interviews these guests not only about their industry talents but also about their unique ways of breaking into Hollywood. To better guide you on how to make the entertainment-based career journey yourself. To Hear The Comp ...…

A ten-part podcast series featuring interviews with creative professionals embedded in the entertainment industry. Brickey interviews these guests not only about their industry talents but also about their unique ways of breaking into Hollywood. To better guide you on how to make the entertainment-based career journey yourself. To Hear The Comp ...…

A ten-part podcast series featuring interviews with creative professionals embedded in the entertainment industry. Brickey interviews these guests not only about their industry talents but also about their unique ways of breaking into Hollywood. To better guide you on how to make the entertainment-based career journey yourself. To Hear The Comp ...…

A ten-part podcast series featuring interviews with creative professionals embedded in the entertainment industry. Brickey interviews these guests not only about their industry talents but also about their unique ways of breaking into Hollywood. To better guide you on how to make the entertainment-based career journey yourself. To Hear The Comp ...…

A ten-part podcast series featuring interviews with creative professionals embedded in the entertainment industry. Brickey interviews these guests not only about their industry talents but also about their unique ways of breaking into Hollywood. To better guide you on how to make the entertainment-based career journey yourself. To Hear The Comp ...…

A ten-part podcast series featuring interviews with creative professionals embedded in the entertainment industry. Brickey interviews these guests not only about their industry talents but also about their unique ways of breaking into Hollywood. To better guide you on how to make the entertainment-based career journey yourself. AIDpodcast.com…

Progress isn’t linear, nor is it always measurable in traditional ways. In your health, in business, in life! Speaking specifically about our health, we can’t use weight as our only measure of success. There are many other ways to see results and to measure our progress, taking pressure off of the arbitrary metric-based goals, like the number o ...…

Kendrick and Mark were meant to be friends, born around the same time and pursuing a life of the same interest. Hear how Kendrick is living proof of showing the world the person you want to become and then becoming that person. When Kidd started his freelance career he had no idea that he was actually making his day job more fulfilling and rewa ...…

Lincoln Design Co. share their recent work for WWE Superstars, Polaris and their newest logo for the AID Network. Get the inside scoop on the branding minds at Lincoln Design Co. To See Today's Mentioned Artwork: http://www.lincolndesignco.com/brandpractice/ep2

It's the 800th episode of Adventures In Design and to celebrate we hit record on a conversation with Skinner, Alex Pardee, and Mark Brickey. The notes got thrown out, and the guys just sorted out how they arrived on this Monday and where they hope they're headed while sharing their experiences of being born in the 70s.…

Wondering if you should make time to see Solo this weekend? Enjoy the first 15 minutes where we review the spirit of the movie without giving up a single detail. After you've seen Solo enjoy our discussion of not only the story and characters but the design and creative process of the newest Star Wars Stoy. Enjoy this special Memorial Day Weeke ...…

Production Designer Anastasia Masaro joins us today to talk about her latest project Tully, in theaters everywhere today. Anastasia shares how her gut instincts and a lifelong love of Indiana Jones have guided her through a successful career where she's fortunate enough to say no more than yes. Mark shares a quick story about the brutal nature ...…

Paul Anthony Troiano is an artist & entrepreneur who got his start in the music licensing business. Troiano founded Rumblefish, a music licensing company that became the largest licensor of independent music in the world. The company, under Troiano’s guidance as CEO, was the first to offer instant licenses for the use of songs on social video p ...…