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Jacob Cass is an award winning graphic designer living in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of the popular graphic design blog, Just Creative. He has grown the blog into a valuable resource for designers looking to further their careers in freelance. His portfolio holds some big names such as Jerry Seinfeld's 'Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee', which shows his calibre of design. Jacob is now a digital nomad and has started travelling the world with his family while blogging and freelancing.

We also talk about:

• How he got into graphic design
• The evolution of Just Creative
• Moving to New York
• Working with Jerry Seinfeld
• Becoming a digital nomad

Henry Kaminski Jr. aka The Brand Doctor is the founder of Unique Designz. He started off in the medical field and found a passion for graphic design, eventually taking his first steps into freelancing he made a massive six figure income in the first year. Today Henry is a brand strategist who helps entrepreneurs gain growth in their business through personal branding.

We also talk about:

• His first job before getting into graphic design
• Battling with the introduction of Fiverr
• Working with Jon Bon Jovi
• Helping Russell Brunson on Clickfunnels brand projects
• Overcoming a smear campaign against him

Derrick Stratton aka DaseDesigns is a one man studio, Derrick is a professional when it comes to eSports and mascot logo designs. Since drawing on notebooks in elementary school, he has been building his talent to become one of the most prolific designers in this niche.

Nathaniel Dodson the founder of TUTVID was simply looking for tutorials on how to use design software. Unsuccessful, he started creating his own video tutorials.

At one point he was the 23rd most subscribed channels on YouTube. Fast forward a couple of years and now he has almost hit a million subscribers.

We also talk about:

• His fascination with food
• How he used to be a cake decorator
• His foray into video tutorials
• Crushing YouTube 
• The future of TutVid and more

Lisa is a creative designer based in the Netherlands, when she was a kid Lisa held a creative flare and fondness for design. She kept creative with sketching, photography, and photorealistic art.

As she got older she enrolled a bachelor's degree to further her understanding of graphic design. After university she worked at a startup accelerator where she helped start ups with their pitching and branding.

She eventually got a job in an agency, which she still works at today and also continues her career in freelance.

We talk about one of her first freelance projects which was a rebranding project that didn’t end well, improving your freelance process, charging for what your worth, and how her work chosen over the work of a major agency.

In today’s episode we have the vivacious and driven Marcella Dominguez! Marcella is an entrepreneur and trademark attorney based in El Paso, Texas. She provides legal counsel to creative professionals and she is also a member of the AIGA.

Marcella always wanted to do something creative and wasn’t really passionate about criminal defence, she was seeking an area in law that she would enjoy.

Enter, trademark and copyright law, this was her answer to doing something creative with her legal background. Her strong interest in Trademark Law and Copyright Law is driven by her belief that protecting creativity is crucial to lasting success.

We also talk about her other venture called Stowey Joey which is a great product for kids, it’s one of those things where you’re like “hey why didn’t I think of that?” It’s a play mat for kids that they can colour on.

Marcella is also an Ambassador for Daymond John’s Rise and Grind, to those of you who don’t know him, he is a famous entrepreneur and also one of the Sharks on Shark Tank the US version.

Many designers when starting out do not take into account the proper paperwork for a project. So Marcella, gives you the tips and actions steps to make sure you’re secure when interacting with a client and taking on a creative project.

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 8 of Creatives Radio, thank you so much for choosing to spend your time listening to these interviews, it really helps with growing this podcast and the community.

In this episode I’m talking to Matt Vergotis, It’s a special interview to me because when I was getting into the world of design and discovering that I loved being creative, I’d go to Matt’s website verg.com.au and find inspiration and improve my taste in design.

It was the way he had crafted the brand identities and presented them in such an elegant manner. Matt is a fellow Australian living in the Gold Coast, he loves surfing, creating wave drawings and recently decided that he needs to play more of his guitar.

Apart from those activities, Matt is also responsible for some really professional brand identities and typography, with 20 years experience in the design field, he shows no signs of stopping. 

In this episode we also talk about how Matt got into creating corporate identities, how he found clients when the GFC hit in 2008, his exploration in calligraphy styled identities, font creation and also how he gets to work with Spotify. Connect with Matt here https://www.instagram.com/mattvergotis

Matt's Fonts https://www.verg.com.au/shop/