Design Details 352: Building a Better Design Industry ft. Maurice Cherry
This week, we caught up with Maurice Cherry to talk about design podcasting, building an agency from scratch, and the current state of diversity in design. Maurice is a designer, podcaster, creative strategist, agency founder, writer, speaker, and much more.
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In this week's Sidebar, we ask Maurice some bonus questions at the end of the interview:
- What is the most under-rated skill for designers?
- What is the most over-rated skill for designers?
- Do you find that your success thus far is mostly the result of luck or hard work?
Follow-up:
- Manny asked if we've seen the accessibility settings for The Last of Us Part 2. Marshall has, and these settings are truly incredible.
- Watch this video of Steve Saylor's accessibility impressions.
Interview:
Maurice Cherry is a designer, podcaster, creative strategist, agency founder, writer, speaker, and so much more. He most recently worked as a Senior Creative Strategist at Glitch. Follow Maurice on Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn.
Links from the interview:
- Revision Path is a podcast interviewing black designers and technologists. It is in the freaking Smithsonian!
- Maurice's projects include:
- Watch Where Are the Black Designers
- An Antiracist Reading List
- Umbra Magazine
- Creative Reaction Lab
- Project Osmosis
- The Inneract Project helps underrepresented youth to explore and learn about design, created by Muarice Woods.
- Maurice was on Design Details: 13: Eating Horse (feat. Maurice Woods) and 123: Live @ Github (feat. Carolyn Zhang, Heather Phillips, Mo Woods & Diana Mounter)
- On the Grid is now retired, but was good.
- Black art and design podcasts:
Cool Things:
- Brian shared the Hidden Brain Podcast.
- Listen to The Air We Breathe and Playing Favorites as a good jumping-off point.
- Shoutout to Gabriel Valdivia for the rec!
- Marshall shared The Last of us Part 2, played by Christopher Odd. Watch the playlist to immerse yourself, Marshall-style.
- Maurice shared two things for you this week:
- Bayside High and Drunk, a podcast that reviews Saved by the Bell while high and drunk.
- butter.atl is a savvy and creative Instagram that is using the platform to creatively showcase what Atlanta is all about. The creator, Brandon Butler was also on Revision Path Episode 7
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