The Angry Designer - A Graphic Design, Brand, UX, Logo, Website Designer Podcast

Apr 07 2025 238 ep. 47 mins 155
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A No-Bull Graphic Design podcast that helps frustrated Graphic Designers crush the social &  industry bull, to learn how to charge what they're worth, and build badass careers.

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Graphic Design Pricing – The Truth About Hourly, Project & Value-Based Rates You’re NOT Hearing

Apr 07 2025 29 mins  
Pricing your Graphic design work shouldn't feel like rocket science—but for most Graphic Designers, it’s a total mindfk! Hourly? Project-based? Value-based? Everyone online's got an opinion, but let’s be honest—most of that advice is either incomplete or flat-out wrong, let alone providing you a game plan or roadmap on how-to charge for graphic design work. No wonder design

How to Bulletproof Your Graphic Design Career Before Disaster Strikes & It’s Too Late

Mar 31 2025 34 mins  
What happens to your creative career when life hits hard? Graphic designers are taught how to build brands, craft visuals, and make things look amazing. But no one teaches us how to survive when life punches us in the face. Whether it’s grief, family emergencies, burnout, or just life being a complete dumpster fire, most creatives are one bad week away from total collapse, and th

Why Graphic Designers Fail to Turn Lettering Into a Career and How You Still Can Do It with Martina Flor Part 2

Mar 24 2025 43 mins  
Most Graphic Designers love lettering. But almost none of them know how to turn it into a real career. They dabble. They post. They dream. But they never make the leap. Why? Because the design industry sold you a lie—that passion alone is enough to succeed. In this episode of The Angry Designer Podcast, we’re back with world-renowned Lettering Artist and Graphic Designer Martin

The Typography Lie – Why Lettering Is the Missing Piece in Your Graphic Design Career with Martina Flor

Mar 17 2025 49 mins  
Graphic designers think they know typography. You pick a font, tweak some kerning, and boom—you’re a type expert, right? Wrong. Most designers are blind to the power of lettering, and it’s keeping them stuck in the same sea of mediocrity. While they tinker with fonts, lettering artists are out there crafting custom letterforms, charging premium rates, and landing clients like

The Secret to a More Creative, Profitable & Stress Free Graphic Design Career YOU Need to Embrace

Mar 10 2025 34 mins  
Hustle culture has convinced Graphic Designers that working at 100% all the time is the only way to make it. Spoiler alert: it’s NOT. Graphic designers are burning out, overworking, and grinding themselves into the ground—all in the name of “success. Truth Bomb: More work ≠ better work. Enter Hara Hachi Bu—a centuries-old philosophy that has kept people thriving. It’s t

BURNOUT IS AVOIDABLE. How YOU Might Be the Problem and How to Fix It.

Mar 03 2025 55 mins  
Graphic Designers – Burnout is NOT what you think! You feel drained, uninspired, and ready to throw your laptop out the window. You tell yourself you’re overworked, underpaid, and stuck in an industry that’s sucking the life out of you. But what if burnout isn’t about the workload at all? What if YOU are the problem? This week on The Angry Designer podcast, we rip apart the

Why Creative Freedom is a Graphic Designers Kryptonite—And How to Actually Unlock Your Design Genius

Feb 24 2025 51 mins  
Graphic designers love to complain about brand guidelines, tight budgets, and impossible client restrictions—but what if those so-called limitations are actually the secret weapon to better design? That’s right—constraints don’t kill creativity; they fuel it. The best designers, the best agencies, and even the biggest tech disruptors in the world all use limitations to push

The Ugly Truth About How AI Will Replace Graphic Designers – Are You Safe or Helping It Take Your Job?

Feb 17 2025 49 mins  
AI is already replacing some Graphic Designers—and if you’re not paying attention, you could be next. The scary part? Most Graphic Designers are making it easy for AI to take their place. Whether it’s by ignoring it, misusing it, or pretending it’s not happening, too many are sleepwalking straight into irrelevance. Meanwhile, the smartest Graphic Designers are flipping the

How-To SEE the World Like a Graphic Designer

Feb 10 2025 61 mins  
Most Graphic Designers LOOK—but the best Graphic Designers SEE OPPORTUNITIES. Pros see patterns, strategies, and opportunities. They understand why things work—not just how they look. Most designers are stuck in surface-level thinking, obsessing over aesthetics while missing the bigger picture. If you’re only focused on making things look good, you’ll never break out of the

Graphic Design Business Lessons by Andy Warhol. Turning Your Creativity Into Cash!

Feb 03 2025 44 mins  
Graphic designers are taught to create, not sell—and that’s exactly why so many talented designers stay broke. The harsh reality? Talent alone won’t make you successful. The industry is full of insanely skilled designers who struggle to make ends meet while less talented ones cash in—because they get it: design is a business. And no one understood that better than Andy Warh