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"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry. Hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host, Maurice cherry. Before we get to this week's interview, I need your help. On January 12th, a tornado tore through my hometown of Selma, Alabama. You probably heard about it or seen it on the news. Now my family is safe, there's been minimal damage to my mom's place, my grandma's place. But overall, the city looks like a war zone and there have been significant amounts of damage. And Selma is an old town with a lot of old buildings and trees, so that's tornado came through and just really, really mess things up. I've seen pictures. I've seen drone footage. It looks like a war zone and a third world country. It looks really bad. I'm
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"Of forge their own path? Yeah, I would say, I say, do your homework. And when I say that, I mean, it's great to go out with passion and present it, but you have to have a plan. And that could be, you know, do you want to be a generalist or you want to, this could be applied to a couple of different media, of course. But yeah, do I want to be a specialist and I want to be a generalist. I'm going back and forth between that as well. For me, it's about being also diversifying. I don't just solely rely on photography or I don't just solely rely on consulting or design or filmmaking. It's about building a brand based on those three words. Like I said, style creativity and soul and thinking about how you want your clients to feel when they work with you and after they're done working with you and will that make them want to work with you again. So it's like a lot of soft skill stuff. I mean, yeah, of course, being technically skilled and talented, those are all great things. But if people don't like you, you're not going to go far far. Learning how to maintain or establish and maintain relationships with people who align with the vision that you want to sell your artwork to present your work to and being able to manage that and navigate that and be in spaces and present yourself well. I think that's really important. And then also, of course, the more technical stuff about managing the business, you know, establishing an LLC, your contracts, delivering over delivering at times, under promising, you know, versus a device that basically because people will call you on. You said you were going to get 30 pictures. You don't need to deliver 29. It's like, oh, okay. Gotcha. But if I say I'm delivering 15 and I deliver 30, guess what, now I'm a rockstar, you know? And a lot of creatives, you know, take that for granted. And I also understand that this time and money involved with creating and running a business. So be mindful of that. Don't kill yourself. Rest. Take your time to step away from it. And reevaluate reassess, learn, and then ask for mentorship from people who are already doing it that are in a game. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? What kind of work do you want to be doing? Future stuff or continuation of what you're currently on. Where do you see yourself? Yeah, ultimately, in your 5 years, it's funny because I've been actually writing out my chain your plan and in the next 5 years, a couple of things. I definitely want to have a new physical space to run a shop and have a team. A dedicated team on payroll. So where I can manage and be creative or principle for projects that are being done by people that are working for me. But also, yeah, I have a really, I have a big passion for veterans affairs. So I've been researching ways that I can somehow participate in helping veterans. The advanced transitioning or trying to find their way out in the workforce at the China start of business, there are so many benefits out there available to a betterment to they don't know they're there and they're just out here flapping and trying to work but also might have some disabilities or issues that their workplace will workplaces are required to accommodate, right? So yeah, that's a huge passion of mine. Honestly, being helping veterans, especially better as a color transition and live good lives after kind of lived some potentially really lift them some really potentially horrible situations because of war. Yeah. But yeah, having a shopping, helping veterans. Well, just to kind of wrap things up here, where can our audience find out more information about you, your work and everything, where can they find that online? Sure. Yeah, so my main website is Chris Charles dot co that's Chris Charles dot CO, not dot com. The person who owns that domain name uses to give it up. I'm stuck with the dot co. And that's no problem. That's fine. So that has pretty much leads you to all of the other work that I do. I have a separate photography website which you can also find once you go to Chris Charles dot CO, but for people who are specifically interested in photography, it's my full name, Christopher Charles, photography dot com. I have a Facebook business page. This is Chris Charles photo. My Instagram handle is the underscore Chris Charles. Chris Charles. Those are the main places to find. I'm there. All right, sounds good. Well, Chris Charles, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. I think certainly everything that you have talked about speaks to two key things that I think folks should kind of take in my particularly as we go into the new year. One is about being adaptable and the second is about building relationships. I think everything that you've described about your career to date has been a testament to both of those abilities and you've been able to craft and use both of those to be able to build a career for yourself, build a life for yourself and continue to do great work out there in the community. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me, man. This is really fun, enjoy talking with you Maurice. Yeah, anything you need from me just let me know. Big, big thanks to Chris Charles, and of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Chris and his work through the links in the show notes after vision path dot com. Revision path is sponsored by hover. Building your online brand has never been more important, and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With best in class customer service, free who is privacy and more, hover is there to help you bring your online dreams to life. Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio located in Atlanta, Georgia. Our executive producer is Maurice cherry, and our editor in audio engineer is RJ basilio. Intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are courtesy of brevity and wit. If you liked this episode, let us know. We're on Instagram and Twitter, just look for revision path all one word, or you could follow us on Spotify or Amazon music or leave us a rating and a review on Apple podcasts. We love love, love to read those. And if you really want to show your support for revision path, you should pick up some of our merch. We can get a nice T-shirt, you can get an embroidered hoodie. We've got a notebook. We've got a coffee mug. We're working on actually revamping our merch this year for our tenth anniversary. So if you want to cop some really great limited edition stuff, make sure you check out our merch store. We even have stickers. Just go to revision path dot com, click on merch at the top of the page or tap the link in the show notes. As always, thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time.
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"maurice cherry" Discussed on Revision Path
"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry. Hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host, Maurice cherry. Now it's the holiday season. It's December and most likely this is kind of a time when we're all expected to sort of slow things down a little bit. Of course, there's, you know, hanging out with friends and family. There's time off work. If
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"maurice cherry" Discussed on Revision Path
"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry. Hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host Maurice cherry. Now I've got a couple of just really quick announcements before we get started with the episode. First off, if you haven't seen it yet, we released our holiday gift guide just a couple of weeks ago. Now if you're still looking for that last minute gift for friend, coworker, significant other family member, et cetera, then you might want to check our gift guide out. We had a lot of fun putting it together. We've got a lot of great books and other things that are on there. So if you want to check it out, you can go to the link that we have for it in the show notes. Or just go to revision path dot com and click on the pop up that comes up, it'll take you right
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"maurice cherry" Discussed on Revision Path
"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host, Maurice cherry. Got a couple of quick announcements. First off, if you haven't seen it already, we released our holiday gift guide. Just a few weeks ago, we did a kind of earlier on because we know that, you know, there's still supply issues in terms of shipping and all that sort of stuff. So instead of us releasing our gift guide in December like we usually do, we did it much earlier in November. So if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out. It's all revision path dot com. As soon as you go to the website, just click the pop up that comes up, it'll take you right to it. I'll also put a link to it in the show notes if you want to check it out. Had a lot of fun putting it together so I really hope that you enjoy
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"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host Maurice cherry. This is a special bonus episode about the design of Black Panther Wakanda forever. Remember when the first Black Panther movie came out back in 2018, we did an episode then you can check the link in the show notes. And I knew that we had to dive into this movie and talk about the music, the art and the symbolism of it all. Actually, that 2018 bonus episode on Black Panther that we did, it's in the Smithsonian's permanent archives for the national museum of African American history and culture. So you know what? You can check it out there as well. In the meantime, settle in for a panel discussion on Black Panther Wakanda forever with myself, as well as some past guests from revision path. Reginae Gilbert, Jordan green, and Paul Webb.
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"Of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Tiffany and her work through the links in the show notes after vision path dot com. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry, with engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are provided by brevity and wit. This episode of revision path is also brought to you by hover. Building your online brands has never been more important, and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With over 400 plus domain extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, hover is the only domain provider I use and trust. Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. So what did you think of the interview? Better yet, what do you think about the podcast overall? Don't be a stranger we'd love to hear from you on social media. So please hit us up. We're on Twitter and we're on Instagram. Just search for revision path, like all one word, or you can leave us a rating and a review on Apple podcasts, Amazon music, or on Spotify, and I'll even read that review right here on the show. If it's a good review, if it's a 5 star review of course, I'll read it on the show, but you should be leaving 5 star reviews anyway for your favorite design podcast, right? The more people you tell about the show, the bigger we become, and the further we can extend our reach to talk to black designers, developers, artists, and other digital creatives from all over the world. As always, thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time.
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"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry. Hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host Maurice cherry. Now I mentioned this last week, but the revision path job board and the tenth collective talent collective have now combined. It's now sort of one and the same. So when a company places a listing on the job board, they also will automatically be a part of the talent collective. And you know, I've mentioned the Tim collective, I don't know, maybe it's probably the spring, which is this new initiative from the state of black design and from revision path where we are trying to pair up companies that are looking to hire black designers with black designers that are looking for work. Now, I know over the past few months, people are making it laid off left and right. A lot of folks are looking for their new opportunities. Let us be a resource for you as you look for whatever your next opportunity is. And look, I'll be honest, I've been attend collective too. I got laid off in August, so I'm looking for work as well. So it's a great resource to have in your back pocket, whether you need it or not. If you're want to join if you're a black designer, it's free to join. All you have to do is fill out a really short profile and you're all set. You'll only get contacted by companies when they're ready to talk to you and you can hide your profile from companies or remain completely anonymous. So you can just head over to the tenth collective dot com to join. There's also a link in the show notes. We're still kind of working out the rate structure for more companies to join. But we'll hopefully have that done by
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"Big, big thanks to Sean Alexander Allen, and of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Sean and his work through the links in the show notes at revision path dot com. Provision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry, with engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are provided by brevity and wit. This episode of revision path is also brought to you by hover. Building your online brands has never been more important, and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With over 400 plus domain extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, hover is the only domain provider I use and trust. Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. So what did you think of the interview? Better yet, what do you think about the podcast overall? You know, we'd love to hear from you so please don't be a stranger. Hit us up on Twitter or Instagram, just search for revision path all one word, or you can leave us a rating and a review just like Reggie did on Apple podcasts or on Amazon music or on Spotify. The more people you tell about the show, the bigger we become, and the further we can extend our reach to talk to black designers, developers, artists, and other digital creatives from all over the world. As always, thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time.
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"maurice cherry" Discussed on Revision Path
"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host, Maurice cherry. Now you've heard me talk about the tenth collective, the tenth collective is an initiative that is from revision path and from state of black design and we came together to make this initiative because we both get approached by a lot of companies that are looking for black designers. You know, I mentioned this. I think maybe an episode or two ago, but this sort of time period right now in September, they call it the September surge because the fiscal years for a lot of companies began. And so companies start looking at hiring as they begin their fiscal year, also to try to prep for the holidays and such like that. So if you're looking for work, the tenth collective is a great resource for you. Like I said, we want to do this so we can pair black designers with companies that are looking to hire black designers. It's free to join the tenth collective. There's just a short profile that you have to fill out and you're all set. You'll only get contacted by companies when they're ready to talk to you. And you can hide your profile from companies or remain completely anonymous. It's a great resource whether you're looking for your next opportunity like I am, or you already have a gig and maybe you just want to see what else is out there. You can even hide your profile from your employer or from any other companies as well. Head on over to the tenth collective dot com to join or you can check out the link in the show notes. This episode of provision path is brought to you by hover, building your online brand has never been more important, and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With over 400 plus domain extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, hover is the only domain provider I use and trust. So what are you waiting for? Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. Now for this week's interview, I'm talking with Jordan Taylor, a designer at pentagram in New York City. Let's start the show. All right, so tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Jordan Taylor. I'm a graphic designer at pentagram, working a lot of different projects, mostly branding, but a fair share of editorial and motion design, a few websites here and there. How has the year been going so far? My year has been pretty great. I recently moved to a new place for the first time. I'm now living out in Brooklyn, New York. I moved up here for work and, you know, it's been a chance to go on new adventures, see different things, meet new people. It's been pretty interesting. A lot of changes. When you sort of look at the year in general, where we're at now, you know, we're recording this right now in August, mid August. Is there anything that you want to accomplish before the year ends? Oh, I'd say that right now, I'm kind of in a place where I'm trying to figure out what my next thing is. One of the things I really want to accomplish for the years over is starting to make those steps toward whatever that looks like. Whether it's like an expression of self or new business endeavors, just like starting to really get back into more like self activated things like, I don't know, you know how they say you kind of are always going to kind of need to fall a couple of times when you're on your journey somewhere. I'm ready to kind of start taking those babies first steps toward whatever new horizon I'm hitting tour. I feel like I'm in that kind of place. Okay. Now you're at pentagram, which is a extremely, extremely well known design consultancy. Talk to me about that. Yeah. Yeah, pentagram is it's so many things, like I'm there now. I've been working there coming up on two years in September. When I started, it was as a remote position. I started as an intern, but I was working from home still down in Atlanta. The journey there was just so unexpected. I just didn't think that it was like a place I was going to get to, you know, like when I started really diving into design, you know, you kind of get introduced to different ways of doing things and what brand design looks like and who the kind of designers to know are and you find out about different names and you kind of end up finding out about pentagram and it just is a crazy experience to walk in there and actually see these people in person and not from like even like a crowd for some sort of forum that they're putting on it's been really interesting just like even beyond like the partners you have all the people working there on the different teams and you find out like how a team works and how they approach projects and different ways that people think it's like a big incubator. It's really been like the way I got there was so much so of just like putting my head down because it was like the middle of the pandemic and like just trying to get to the best place I could after leaving school so in a way like I don't always fully take it in, but in those moments that I do, it just really kind of hits me and it's like oh I'm actually in here every day if that makes sense. It's a lot of work but it's also a lot of just like air of ridiculousness to me. It's like worked out to this level. It sounds like it's hard to put into words. I mean I'm kind of listening to you stay over to talk about it but I mean I can imagine you've got such design heavyweights like Michael Beirut and Paula scher and Eddie go par whom we've had on the show episode two 34 and people want to check that out. But yeah, like I can imagine having that much I guess the weight of it all is probably a lot to think about from your perspective. And then at the same time, I still have work to do every day. Like I still have like four or 5 projects to work on. It's a balancing act. You try to make yourself known and reach and get to know people, but at the same time you're still trying to keep the main thing, the main thing and I guess to do the work that got you there. So. And you've done that. I mean, you've done the work that got you there. It's not like you just walked in off the street, and the pentagram, like you said, you had your head down, working, and we'll get more into your background and your story. But you deserve to be there. No, absolutely. Yeah. I say all these things about how it feels to be there, but I don't think I ever really felt I didn't belong, maybe just that I didn't expect for anybody to actually figure that out if that makes sense. What is a typical day look like for you at pentagram? A typical day for me when I first started there is an intern, one of the big things that I was really kind of aware of was that I was probably not going to understand how anything worked. So I would reach out to my mentors, one of which was Louis Michele. He used to work at Collins now. He's an apple. I reached out to John Ferguson and my court smith. I just kind of asked him, you know, like you all are professionals, you all are in this design world. Like, how do you actually keep track of all the things that you're supposed to do on a day? Like, how do you know how much time to allocate to a project? If you've got multiple projects going on, how do you know when to start the day or when the end of the day? Because it was working from home and starting out, like everything was a little too soft for me. Long story short, I got into making to do lists to start the
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"Big, big thanks to Ajay archer, and of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Ajay and his work through the links in the show notes as provision path dot com. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry, with engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are provided by brevity and wit. This episode of revision path is also brought to you by hover. Building your online brand has never been more important, and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With over 400 plus domain extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions. Hover is the only domain provider I use and trust. Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. So what did you think of the interview? Better yet, what do you think about the podcast overall? You know, we'd love to hear from you so please don't be a stranger. Hit us up on social media. We're on Twitter. We're on Instagram. Just search for revision path all one word. Or you can leave us a rating and review on Apple podcasts on Amazon music or on Spotify. The more people you tell about the show, the bigger we become, and the further we could extend our reach to talk to black designers developers, artists, and other digital creators from all over the world. As always, thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time. Thank you.
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"Like where can they find all of that online? So I'm on a lot of different platforms, but actually LinkedIn is probably the best place for people to find me. They just have to look for my name, Leslie Ann Noel Elias el EY, that's thing. And so if they want to know more about the general work that I'm doing, LinkedIn is the place. As an academic, like I'll repost some of the academic articles that I've written on research geeks. And then I'm also pretty active on Twitter actually, but if people Google me, they'll find me on some platform that they can reach out to me and I actually do respond to people generally. So but LinkedIn is generally the easiest place to find me. Sounds good. Well, Leslie Ann Noel, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. This has been a long time coming. I think I feel like you and I have intersected quite a few times over the past few years, so I'm really glad to finally have you on the show, not just to, of course, share your story and your research, but I think to inspire. I mean, so much of what you're doing is about pursuing your own curiosities and interests and I think that's something sometimes that's designers. We tend to lose sight of, especially like if you're working in product, I hate to say that, but I can be working at UX or product. It's hard to kind of see the force for the trees sometimes because what you're doing is so laden to a specific thing, whereas you've been able to really, it sounds like at least you've been able to indulge a lot of your creativity across many different passions throughout your career, which is just super inspiring to hear about. I'm sure, of course, we'll hear about you now for years and years to come. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for the invitation. And I mean, I hope that at least this conversation is able to help people see that they could kind of craft a bit of a path that works for them. Even when the path looks like it's been clearly marked, you know, they could kind of shake up the path a little bit and do a little bit of what they want. Hopefully. So thank you for the invitation. Big, big thanks to doctor Leslie and Noel, and of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about doctor Noel and her work through the links in the show notes at revision path dot com. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry. With engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are provided by brevity and wit. This episode of revision path is also brought to you by hover. Building your online brands has never been more important. That begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With over 400 plus domain extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, hover is the only domain provider I use and trust. Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. So what did you think of the interview? Better yet, what do you think about the podcast overall? You know, we'd love to hear from you. Don't be a stranger. If you're just out there listening and you want to get in touch with us, please do so. You can hit us up on Twitter or you can hit us up on Instagram. Just search for revision path, like all one word, revision path, or you can leave us a rating and a review on Apple podcasts, on Amazon music, or on Spotify. The more people you tell about the show, the bigger we become, and the further we can extend our reach to talk to black designers, developers, artists, and other digital creatives from all over the world. As always, thank
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"Big big thanks to Rebecca brooker and of course thanks to you for listening. Don't forget next week we're going to have part two of our conversation. So tune in for that. In the meantime, you can find out more about Rebecca and her work through the links in the show notes after vision path dot com. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry, with engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts provided by brevity and wit. This episode of revision path is also brought to you by hover. You know, building your online brand has never been more important and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With over 400 plus domain extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, hover is the only domain provider I use and trust. Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. So what did you think of the interview? Better yet, what do you think about the podcast overall? We'd love to hear from you on social media, so please hit us up on Twitter. We're on Instagram, just search for revision path, like all one word, or you can leave us a rating and a review on Apple podcasts on Amazon music or on Spotify. We actually have not had a review in a long time, and I miss getting those 5 star reviews and reading them on the show, so if you're listening and you've never left a review, go leave a review, it costs you nothing, it makes my day, it's great. Just do it, do it for me, do it for me, okay? Because you know, the more people that you tell about the show, the bigger we become and the further we can extend our reach to talk to black designers, developers, artists, and other digital creatives from all over the world. As always, thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time..
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"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry. Hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host Maurice cherry. This week, I'm talking with Monique Jenkins, CEO of Jenkins creative in Baltimore, Maryland. Let's start the show. All right, so tell us who you are and what you do..
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"Through in depth interviews you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry hello everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host Maurice cherry. This week I'm bringing back who saw Oakley. You might remember him from episode 40, wasabi is the director of creative practices ad Netflix. Let's start the show. All right, so tell us who you are and what you do. My name is hasani Oakley. I am the director of creative practices at Netflix. That's a pretty big title. I was gonna ask, you know, what all has changed since you were last on the show, which was in 2014 you were episode 40. That's a long time ago. Tell me more about this new role in Netflix. It sounds exciting. It was a very long time ago. That's a whole two jobs and a global panini ago. It was that long. Yeah, so my role at Netflix is in a group called product creative studio. It's a new role, even though product creative studio isn't necessarily new. We're part of a team of people that are responsible for launching titles on platforms. So all shows all movies, whether they are Netflix originals or our non original content that ends up on the platform globally. Everything related to how those titles appear on platform. Everything from the descriptions, the synopses that appear when you're looking for something to watch, to the tagging that appears, but specifically the art and clips and trailers that appear in the rows when you're on the Netflix homepage and when you're on one of our title detail pages. That's the sort of work that's done in my on my side of the organization. And my department and thus my role, specifically, is looking at that work from a creative perspective, less than operational perspective and trying to figure out ways to make that work the best possible work for our members. We really want that art and those trailers and those clips to stand out and give you enough information as a member to let you decide whether this is something for you and you're going to hit play and watch..
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"maurice cherry" Discussed on Revision Path
"And, you know, one of the things that's clear, right? My journey expect the unexpected, right? Because there's a lot of unexpected stuff that's happened. It continues to happen in my life and just expect that, right? And respect it. Well, just to kind of wrap things up here, Kevin, I mean, again, you've given so much in this interview, my God. Where can people find out more about you and about your work and everything online? Just at me, at me, at Casey catalyst with a K, that's easy. Kat. Yep. So Casey, Kat. At me, you find you can find me on all my social is that and it's easy to find me LinkedIn that way and yeah, that's what you can find out more about me that way. Yes, and if I can be of service to the next gen especially, right? Or the young at heart, right? And folks that are just trying to advance something I'm happy to do it. Sounds good, man. Kevin Carroll, thank you so so much for coming on the show. I mean, I had an idea, I think, how the conversation went because as I mentioned you before, I've been listening to your interviews all day, prepping for this, but I mean, the unexpected twists and turns that are just a part of your story. I mean, I think what anyone will take away from this is that you are someone that embodies like curiosity and really just a passion for learning that is definitely taking you to where you are now and the fact that you're also still paying it forward to so many people is astonishing. So I see that Netflix series in your future. It may not be Netflix, maybe it's Hulu. I mean, there's like what a dozen streaming services or something now, but I see it happening because, I mean, this kind of message, I mean, it's an important message, but I think especially right now, it's so important because of what's happened over the past few years. I think a lot of people have just kind of felt stuck and this period of time has caused them to think about, well, what's the next thing going to be? So they need, they need that catalyst. They need the KC catalyst. That's what they need. My buddy would call me the hope peddler. He said exactly that. I'm like, that's right. I got what you want. I got what you need. Come on, let's go. Yeah. Hope will not be canceled as long as I'm out here. Absolutely. Thank you so so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. My honor and pleasure, man. Time capsule, just leave you with that, Maurice cherry, time capsule, right? This is.
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"maurice cherry" Discussed on Revision Path
"Through in depth interviews, you'll learn about their work, their goals and what inspires them as creative individuals. Here's your host, Maurice cherry. Hello, everybody and welcome to revision path. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host, Maurice cherry, and before we get into this week's interview, let's take some time out and think, are accessibility sponsored for this episode, brevity, and wit. Brevity and wit is a strategy and design firm committed to designing a more inclusive and equitable world. They accomplish this through graphic design, presentations, and workshops around IDEA, inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. If you're curious to learn how to combine a passion for IDEA with design, check them out at brevity and wit dot com. Brevity and wit, creative excellence without the grind. Now for.
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Revision Host Maurice Cherry Interviews Danny Shaw, Director of Digital Design and Branding at Brandshare
"All right. Let's get to the interview this week. I'm talking with danny shaw design educator located in new york city. Let's start the show all right so tell us who you are and what you do all right. Thanks for having me. I'm danny shaw. I'm a design educator. Most of the time also product manager when need to be a project manager as well and at the co- at the end of the day. I'm still a designer multi multi-disciplined design of course across the digital space. Okay how has twenty twenty one been for you so far. Twenty twenty one i mean. What are we with thirteen days. Then will far personally has been fine. You know but just looking at the world around me. You would be hard pressed to say that right but personally has been fine so far. So i'm grateful for that How was last year. I know you know the pandemic really kind of turned everyone's world upside down to some sort away. How did you get the year. Last year was a lot. I think a lot of people was ally of me personally. A lot of personal relationships it greatly impacted things for instance my grandparents who visit my grandparents all the time multiple times throughout the eddie live atlanta. I have not been able to see them. And that's really been a tough pill to swallow on person aside and not being able to see other relatives so that's definitely been hard but then which is probably roundabout way on the professional side. It's it's been probably one of the most busiest of hat professionally. A lot of business in the landscape changes so fast rapidly where the digital acceleration accelerated even more than the pace that it was already at which impacted my inbox in my email. People me up for advice and counsel and job. So it's been a mixed bag is definitely been a mix. Let's focus on work for a minute here. You're the director of digital design and strategy for a company called brand share. What does brands share. Do all right. So shit is e commerce marketing company in for a lot of people who may not be familiar with that concept and idea. We work with a lot of. Cpg burns consumer packaged goods such as emmons but if a lot of the packaging goods that we see on a regular basis as consumers so we work with these companies in regards to the marketing strategy. Introducing them to the market gaining insights and data on these new products that's being introduced to the market and we partner with them on their strategy and execution and how the scale they are offering to the audience at large in a nutshell. It comes across multiple channels digital in person shipping. We do a lot of experts. You things as well so Touch on a lot of areas with these brands trying to get as far as being the partner between the brands and these new products. That's trying to the market. In services and reaching that specific audience that the china targeting reach for their respective products. How did you first get started there at the time. I was transitioning from a position that i was working. At in north carolina as product manager and at the time there was some organizational changes. And i was looking in north carolina and and doing that and just going back and forth between new york and chronic to get my fares in order and iran ran to the person who became my manager So we just ran into each other. We used to work in the past at time. inca essence. She just told me she was working there. She was she just started. She was trying to build a team. She was looking for some freelance designers and asked me if i would be open to discuss it and i i'm open to discussing. I was just transitioned from the last role and said hey you know this might be something of interest for me. While i'm transitioning to china figure out the next and then it just happened to work out. Well we worked well together. I've worked with the rest of the team. And i'm working on the designs and floor the digital initiatives and then it just kind of kept going from there into full-time role and then may stand with the company and so forth. What does the team. Makeup look like autumn. Agean you've got designers because you mentioned design but do you work with so i work with everybody. We work with everybody. So i have Outside of me to other designers on my team i work with the vp of marketing. A record the bp digital. We're we're not. We're about fifty. I'll not that big. So we're about fifty person staff based in new york and of pennsylvania so i pretty much everybody to chairman of the company as well That the president. It really depends on the project. What's what needs to be done. You get to intimate environment. So i kind of get to work with everybody account managers and so forth as well now given that the company sizes is so small like what's a typical daylight now because i would imagine you all are not able to get together in an in an office or you now while the pennsylvania offices so they are all the way the to set up a lot of the new york office we are. We're all remote right to be clear. And we were based in midtown manhattan midtown manhattan but The pa office depending on the circumstances on what might be needed. Maybe like a photo shoot or something like that. Some members still going to office but for the most part is still pretty much remote as well. So yeah but a typical day. Nowadays is really. Just you know looking at Obviously out calendar in the before just trying to coordinate on the bear. Risk projects and initiatives looking at tickets. You know gotta look at these tickets to see what's to was the status of status meetings just to kind of make sure that we're on track with a lot of things calls a foul benders looking at roadmap. There's a lot of. I would say a lot of time. Put was president planning a lot more so than in the past so so to speak. It really varies. I really wouldn't even know what to say. What did with low but my on a log. I'm pretty much aware of what my day is already gonna look like just because i leave when i log out. I just see what. I have lined up for the next day. So usually it's a mix between meetings. Some our collaborate with the design team once needed as well as account manager for any new requests checking on the status of ongoing projects as well touching base with the vp of digital. For any other items. That might be down the line sometimes. I am checking in with some of our dev engineers team on the status of things as managing few about digital initiatives and ecommerce sites. Yeah it really ranges mountain towns. I'm looking at analytics in number. Metrics is to see if you know some insights in in regards to the strategy. And make sure we're on pace. We're doing the right thing. There's room for improvement in always looking for some wounds improvements as well so it really varies. Throughout the day. Monday tuesday could be two completely different. Days does sound like a lot. Yes it's it's cool but yeah it can vary a lot. Have you had to adopt any sort of new like strategies or workflows over the past year. Yeah sure well. They tend to crack jokes on me. Because i am like the uae. Try to organize one. You know being a project manager and in the past and project management roles a really try to align and keep things as organiz as feasibly possible. So i think i've definitely had been allowed strong advocate for that. Not just for myself but across the team especially during kobe right so that one thing that be really just had to really make adjustments for the communication on big on communication. I think a lot of not just designed problems. I think a lot of problems in general could be resolved if we communicate elopement so readily had to be strategic in how we communicate and open up communications to help foster solutions especially now that we're not all in this together we can't just walk over to someone and so forth so the communication was definitely gonna be safe there and also iguanas when everything for his hidden in in the world changed right before. Is i do think aloud people kind of know what to do right. So we worked in mit working past normal times and things like that and i think for me was at a place where it had to be diligent about. Okay shut off. There's only so much you can do. And i think not just for me. A lot of people had to make that adjustment as well with the state of the world. Yeah i know a lot of think. It was last year right around the time that the that the pandemic happened. Or the the lockdown started to happen. I was talking with a lotta people for the show who they had either just started a new job in like now it's day for and their mentor. Work from home continually or they're having a tough time to transition from being in the office to now having to sort of work in this synchronous sort of fashion right. And i will say to me. Just because i've had roles in the past where i've worked remote merola north carolina. It was a big remote work environment. Culture prior i would go into the office but it was nothing to see a member who was working remote that day for various reasons. It was very flexible. People have kids people have health issues. We worked with teams across the country. Kind of remote teams across the country engineer so it was never never felt like everybody had to be all his so for me. I was comfortable already transitioned into a more remote environment but this has been the most. I don't know if this is the most remote. I just to show. Has there been like one thing that you've gotten that's really helped you make that adjustment pretty. Well bob meditated. On is i. I really got into a meditation a bit more. Just read different philosophies at least for me just trying to make sense of everything that was going on you know i. I don't have the head. Space is the head. Space app was very very helpful. Helped me sleep more consistently in and things like that. We all just trying to figure out what works for us right. I didn't feel i needed. I wasn't really looking for anything. I was going to make me a better employee anyway. On it I think i was more concerned with was going to help me maintain some schmidt to help during all this time. Yeah so like when it comes to working on a new project or with a new client. What does that creative process look like with you being the director strategy. I know you've got the team under you. What does that sort of process look like from start to finish well. It really varies. Because the relationship that we have with declines it changes in some cases we are more or less facilitators and creative may already common just working on a strategy how to execute it for them and what are the proper market in digital media channels so to speak and then other times. We are developing in design in house. And when that happens of course that's when the standard procedures. What's what's the goal was the objectives. What are we trying to achieve was the demographics that research behind it first before we start opening programs right trying to get an understanding of what the client needs. What goes let's the. Kpi was the measurement of success prior to all of that and then basically looking at our offerings the now tools and resources to see how we can best executed across the board. It may not always be digital 'execution it might be exponential execution might be Just some inserts in getting them the scanty oracle's taken you know micro sites and things like that might be a newsletter campaigns and stuff like that so it does vary but i think we start each project just trying to warn just get an understanding of what are the key goals and objectives and. How do we facilitate that. That making sure that we have the right information to go about executing properly across creative across strategy and course execution as well