S1 Ep10: Having time and space to explore our creative DNA with Amy Wilson from BBC Interior Design Masters

11/29/21 • 58 min

The Make it in Design Podcast

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S1 Ep9: Be Bold! Be Expressive! – The Colour Conversation with PANTONE (Product Managers Louis Prestia and Tannese Williams)

More than 10 million designers and producers around the world rely on Pantone products and services to help define, communicate, and control colour from inspiration to realisation and to achieve colour consistency across various materials and finishes for graphics, fashion and product design.

Vice President of The Pantone Colour Institute, Laurie Pressman believes that The Colour Conversation is one that touches nearly every industry. From the clothes we wear to the way colour makes us feel, the language of colour is one that is universally shared.

Episode 9 includes:

Using colour - Expressing yourself creatively and emotionally
The importance of how colour works technically for designers
Digital vs physical
3D, VR and Avatars! – How PANTONE is innovating
Pivoting into the digital world – What’s next for PANTONE?
Just for fun! Do you have to wear colour if you work for PANTONE?

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S2 Ep1: Using colour and creativity to stimulate emotions with Marianne Shillingford, the Creative Director at AkzoNobel Dulux.

Marianne Shillingford is the Creative Director at AkzoNobel Dulux and founder of the “Colour in Design Award”. Dulux is the UK’s leading paint brand, with a wealth of products and services designed to help consumers find the colours that they’ll love in their home. Dulux have most recently worked in collaboration with UK TV station, Channel 4 as partners for their DIY makeover show “Changing Rooms”!
Describing her role as Creative Director of Dulux as a dream job which involves working closely with many creative disciplines from designers, architect’s photographers and videographers to new design talent, global colour experts, professional decorators, and the media. With over 30 years industry experience colour has been at the heart of everything Marianne does whether it be painting traditional fairground rides, running her own interior decorating company, Artistic Director of the National Design Academy or TV presenting.
Marianne has also channelled her vast experience and love of colour into the launch of “The Colour in Design Award” – creating a meaningful and lasting legacy. Marianne created this award to encourage a new generation of creative talent to discover their own colourful path in the world. The “Colour in Design Award” recognises and rewards new designers who are working with colour in inspiring and exceptional ways.
Episode 1 includes:

The importance of colour and it’s connection to emotion
Learning skills to generate income but also to help nurture your creative self
Recognising your strengths and how you can build these into a career you love
Your creative curiosity and keeping hold of that passion throughout your creative career
Sustainability, it’s significance and how we can play our part as creatives
Championing the next generation and learning from them too

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The Make it in Design Podcast - S1 Ep10: Having time and space to explore our creative DNA with Amy Wilson from BBC Interior Design Masters

Transcript

Beth Kempton00:00:08.490

Hello there, and welcome to the Make it in Design Podcast. I'm Beth Kempton, co founder of makeitindesign.com which is home to one of the longest running online design schools in the world. We help creatives from across the globe to thrive in the design industry. Together with my co founder Rachel Taylor an award winning design veteran and our wonderful team we love nothing more than to inspire creative people to follow their dreams, to grow s