63: Industrial Designer Pete Whitworth

01/06/17 • 48 min

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. Today, I talk with Pete Whitworth. Pete is an Industrial Designer for SmartShape Design, an industrial design firm in Cleveland, Ohio, We talk about working as a caricature while in high school, his time studying industrial design, the intersection of industrial design and user experience design, and more, all right after this.

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You can find out more about Pete at SmartShape.Design and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with him. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter and Facebook @CreativeSoPod, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Find out more about Pete Whitworth:
Pete Whitworth at SmartShape Design
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Special thanks to Teresa Tomlinson, Mayor of Columbus, GA for becoming our newest Patron over on our Patreon Page.

Find out more about Pete Whitworth:
Pete Whitworth at SmartShape Design
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62: Industrial Designer Brian Milliff

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. Today, I talk with Brian Milliff. Brian is a Product Designer for SmartShape Design, an industrial design firm in Cleveland, Ohio, We talk about his time at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh – where he met his wife, the basics of industrial design, the process at SmartShape, and more, all right after this.

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You can find out more about Brain at SmartShape.Design and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with him. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter and Facebook @CreativeSoPod, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Find out more about Brian Milliff:
Brian Milliff at SmartShape Design
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64: Meena Khalili, Triple Threat

Welcome to the Creative South Podcast! I’m your host, Jason Frostholm. Today, I talk with Meena Khalili, an illustrator and graphic design professor at the University of Louisville. We thank about growing up being a cheerleading, jazz singing, piano playing triple-threat in Alexandria, VA, Studying abroad in Italy, her “New in Lou” daily illustration project and more, all right after this.

As a designer, there’s nothing more frustrating than laboring over the perfect design and having a t-shirt screen printer reproduce your work as a low-quality t-shirt.

Plus, when you are ready, get up to $100 off your first order with Real Thread. Just mention “Creative South Podcast” in the print notes at check out or to your Account Executive.

You can find out more about Meena at on Twitter @meenakhalili and be sure to check out the links in the show notes for more ways to keep up with her. You can keep up with the podcast on Twitter and Facebook @CreativeSoPod, and follow Creative South on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CreativeSouthGA or over at CreativeSouth.com, and I’m @jfrostholm on Dribbble, Twitter, and Instagram.

Find out more about Meena Khalili:
meenakhalili.com

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