Open Studio

Open Studio is a series of honest, guest-led conversations about what it's really like to work in design — across studios of every size, from solo freelancers to global agencies. Each episode sits down with a different designer to talk craft, career, and the moments that shaped them. No polish, no performance — just design people talking to design people.

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  Episode #6

  Creativity Isn't About Drawing with Lee Weaver

  Aug 17, 202643 minS1

  <p>Lee Weaver doesn't think creativity is about drawing — or that you need a "visual" brain to belong in design at all. Some of the best designers, he reckons, think in words first.</p><p></p><p>Lee is the co-founder of OneMay, a brand design studio in Liverpool making what they call "unfair advantages for ambitious brands." Over 15+ years he's gone from a Vogue internship to senior roles to launching his own studio in 2022 — and made a deliberate choice to keep it small, so he and his co-founder can stay hands-on with the work rather than end up managing it.<...

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  Episode #5

  Showing Up With Nothing To Show with Laura Palmer

  Aug 17, 202654 minS1

  <p>When anyone can push a button and get something that looks good, what's actually left that matters? For Laura Palmer, it's the idea — and the slow, unglamorous, occasionally frustrating process of getting there.</p><p></p><p>A senior digital designer now freelancing, Laura came into design sideways. She studied art history at Leeds, where the assumed path led toward the art market and internships at the big auction houses — a future she knew wasn't hers. She'd been teaching herself After Effects and Illustrator making posters for a DJ friend, and a Shillington course during lockdown turned that instinct into...

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  Episode #3

  What AI Can't Generate is Taste with Studio AntiGravity's Jordan Yates & Rachel Cook

  Aug 10, 202644 minS1

  <p>AI can generate a logo in seconds. What it can't generate is taste — and for Jordan Yates and Rachel Cook, that's exactly why bold, considered design matters more now than it ever has.</p><p></p><p>Jordan is the founder and creative director of Studio AntiGravity; Rachel is its studio director. Married, Manchester-based, and four or five months into running the studio in its current form, they trace the honest, slightly messy work of turning one person's seven-year freelance practice into a proper studio — pulling every process "out of Jordan's head" and building something that can stand on its...

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  The Perfect Creative Doesn't Exist with Rose O'Mahony

  Aug 10, 202639 minS0

  <p>Rose O'Mahony has stopped asking whether her work is "good." After twelve years in branding, she measures it by something steadier — whether she's proud of it, and whether she can stand behind it in the room.</p><p></p><p>A senior branding and packaging designer at Springetts in London, Rose has spent over a decade shaping brands people actually feel something for — Weetabix and Dulux among them. This episode traces her path from a Chelsea foundation (and a creative dad who warned her off the industry) through internships across web, editorial and illustration, to twelve years at one stud...

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  From Freelance to Studio Goodwork with Katie Price

  Aug 4, 202649 minS1

  <p>Great design doesn't just look good — it does good. That's the belief driving Katie Price, founder of Studio Good Work, a brand design studio built on research, reality, and respect for community and craft.</p><p>In this episode, Katie joins us to talk about carving her own path in social design after two redundancies, five months "in the pit," and a coffee-shop job that kept her going. She shares the stranger's advice that changed everything — that a career is a path of stepping stones, and only you decide where to lay the next one — and what it really takes...

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