026 - 2017: Hold my beer.

12/21/17 • 54 min

For us here at JW, 2017 was the year that we developed a pavlovian auto-anxiety response to the New York Time push news alert. Is it too much to ask to not use the same system to notify me that North Korea has launched a missile test with the same one that tells me their annual gift guide is released?

While 2017 has seen its fair share of bullshit to say the least, there were some pretty amazing things happening as well - not to mention the fact that the advertising and design worlds continued to somehow exist and stay relevant, and not get decimated by our new AI overlords.

So to help celebrate the year that was, and what is to come, we thought we’d check in with each other to go over everything from our favourite projects and pop culture obsessions here at JW, all the way to our predictions for the new year and narkiest anonymous comments.

We are currently looking for new interview subjects! Know a PM, producer, studio manager, art buyer, etc etc who is amazing at their job? Dob them in to [email protected] so we can hit them up!

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Intro Links! : Negotiations with bullies and other unreasonable people / The Secret Life of 'Um' / Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You / How to control your emotions

2017 Wrap Up! (Not a comprehensive list, but most things discussed are outlined here!)

Favourite campaign?
-Spotify
-More Spotify
-Chobani Rebrand
-Awful Recruitment Videos
-State Street Global Advisors, “Fearless Girl”
-KFC Launches an online shop

Favourite Jacky Winter project we worked on?
-Freedom Calendar
-Say Yes to Love
-Oxfam 40 Hour Famine

Favourite new tool or hack you implemented this year?
-The Great Suspender
-Airtable

What happened in 2017 that you feel had the most significant impact on the industry/has the potential to impact the industry?
-Rise of the Consultancies

What were the biggest trends of the year?
-Fauxsaics
-If You High

Favourite pop culture moment?
-Judd Foundation
-James Turrell at Mass Moca
-John McCraken at David Zwirner
-Diddy Crop
-Diddy Stairs

Favourite new artist discovery?
-Concrete Jellyfish
-Tom Blachford
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We are currently looking for new interview subjects! Know a PM, producer, studio manager, art buyer, etc etc who is amazing at their job? Dob them in to [email protected] so we can hit them up!

Featured links from our discussion - Want to get these in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for our text-only tinyletter at tinyletter.com/jackywinter

Intro Links! : Negotiations with bullies and other unreasonable people / The Secret Life of 'Um' / Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You / How to control your emotions

2017 Wrap Up! (Not a comprehensive list, but most things discussed are outlined here!)

Favourite campaign?
-Spotify
-More Spotify
-Chobani Rebrand
-Awful Recruitment Videos
-State Street Global Advisors, “Fearless Girl”
-KFC Launches an online shop

Favourite Jacky Winter project we worked on?
-Freedom Calendar
-Say Yes to Love
-Oxfam 40 Hour Famine

Favourite new tool or hack you implemented this year?
-The Great Suspender
-Airtable

What happened in 2017 that you feel had the most significant impact on the industry/has the potential to impact the industry?
-Rise of the Consultancies

What were the biggest trends of the year?
-Fauxsaics
-If You High

Favourite pop culture moment?
-Judd Foundation
-James Turrell at Mass Moca
-John McCraken at David Zwirner
-Diddy Crop
-Diddy Stairs

Favourite new artist discovery?
-Concrete Jellyfish
-Tom Blachford
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025 - The Animation Episode!

Well, it’s taken us nearly half a year to get there, but we’re finally ready to sit down and have a serious heart to heart talk about animation. For us here at Jacky Winter through our Flutter and Gif Horse branches, making things move accounts for more and more of our workflow each year. As more screens fill more places, brands and publishers need more content to put on those screens, and this is exactly where we come in. For our artists and producers, working on animated content can be one of the most rewarding tasks there is, but it’s not without it’s unique production challenges. To that end, we thought we’d have a bit more of a process driven chat today to talk about how animation differs from some of the other projects we work on, and some of the specific skills required as producers to help navigate them.

We are currently looking for new interview subjects! Know a PM, producer, studio manager, art buyer, etc etc who is amazing at their job? Dob them in to [email protected] so we can hit them up!

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Intro Links! : Motionographer: Growing A Business The Hard Way / Boords / Noma Bar on Agents | Lecture In Progress / Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds / CEO of HQ, the Hottest App Going: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host

Animation! : Flutter, Jacky Winter's Animation Branch / Gif Horse

Someone Drove Their Maserati Into Flood Waters In Melbourne And People Are Very Amused

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027 - A chance encounter with Claire Brooks

This week we dust off the cobwebs and officially start our second season. After a leisurely break battling our respective extreme weather conditions, we’re back with a renewed sense of purpose and clarity after tinkering under the hood of the podcast and slightly reconfiguring how we do things around here.

Over the coming weeks and episodes, you might notice a few changes.

Firstly, we’re making an effort to make our episodes shorter. Now that every man, woman, and child and pet has their own podcast, we know that your time is more valuable than ever to squeeze all that content into your ear-holes, so together with our superstar producer Areej, we’re working extra hard behind the scenes to get things tighter and leaner so you only get that nice top creamy layer of Jacky Winter aweseomness that you have grown to love.

Secondly, we’re going to be introducing more interviews with people who have absolutely nothing to do with the advertising or design community, but still have valid lessons and experiences to share regarding production or the sheer experience of making things and putting them out into the world.

As I’ve spoken about here previously, I’ve learned most of my greatest lessons in business from being a client and patron of businesses myself. From architects to cafe owners, we hope to really expand the professional scope of individuals from all creative corners, in hopes that we can really broaden the discussion on the thoughts, processes, and systems that people from all professions use to Make Their Thing.

Fear not! We’ll still be bringing you stories and people from our favourite agencies and brands, but we’ll just be adding a bit of new blood to the mix.

Between both honing and broadening our focus with our guests, we’ll be breaking things up a bit with some more extended discussion between the three of us on some of the most exciting and thought-provoking articles and announcements from our ‘Mini-Links’ feature, the part of the show where we crap on about things we read on the internet from our #professionaldevelopment slack channel.

All in all, our focus hasn’t changed - We’re still determined to be a platform and voice for those individuals and processes behind the scenes that help creative projects come to life and we hope you like what we have in store!

One thing that we’ve really relied on to help us get this far is your feedback and support. From suggesting interview and discussion topics, to reviewing and rating the podcast on iTunes, it’s been so encouraging to hear from so many of you. To help get us to the next season, we really need this to be a 2-way conversation, so please drop us a line and let us know what you think! Do you have a question, a suggestion, or a suggested person to interview? Don’t be shy, we REALLY love an email. It makes our day, so go on and drop us a line at [email protected].

We are currently looking for new interview subjects! Know a PM, producer, studio manager, art buyer, etc etc who is amazing at their job? Dob them in to [email protected] so we can hit them up!

Featured links from our discussion - Want to get these in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for our text-only tinyletter at tinyletter.com/jackywinter

Intro Links! : How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories / No one makes a living on Patreon / The writing's on the wall' - 36 creative predictions for 2018 - AdNews

Claire Brooks : The Listserv / Claire online: LinkedIn, Reel, Instagram / The Shed