# art director (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover art director. Page: Feed: --- ## [Designing homes for life with Andrew Piva](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-homes-for-life-with-andrew-piva) _2026-08-17 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What makes a home feel timeless? In this episode of Design Your Life, Vince Frost sits down with Andrew Piva, Director at B.E. Architecture, to discuss materiality, craftsmanship and the emotional impact of architecture. From growing up in rural New South Wales to shaping some of Australia's most refined contemporary homes, Andrew reflects on the experiences and philosophies that have defined his… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/29a8a501-ca0b-498c-817e-b4a900e1da52/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Everyone's Career Looks Faster From the Outside](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/everyones-career-looks-faster-from) _2026-08-17 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why the timelines you envy are nearly always edited ## [The Art Director's Guide to Perfumery](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/the-art-directors-guide-to-perfumery) _2026-08-10 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ How to build a feeling you cannot see ## [Designing optimum health with Mark Britt](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-optimum-health-with-mark-britt) _2026-08-04 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ Content note: this episode includes a candid discussion of childhood sexual abuse and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised. What if the biggest health data set in human history still can't tell you how to feel better tomorrow? Mark Britt has spent his career inside moments of disruption, as an internet lawyer at 22, in the executive ranks of ninemsn and Microsoft, and building a… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/6fd708b7-238d-46fd-9766-b49c0114a2fa/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Great Concepts Don't Start With Moodboards](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/great-concepts-dont-start-with-moodboards) _2026-08-02 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why a moodboard is a starting point for a team to build on, and what we lose when it becomes a picture to be copied exactly ## [Has Image-Making Run Out of Subcultures?](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/image-making-has-run-out-of-subcultures) _2026-07-23 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ The 'method' that powered fashion image-makers for 30 years was borrowed, but now a structural shift has replaced it. Let's explore what image-makers will do next in this new landscape. ## [Designing energy in place with Matt Mewburn](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-energy-in-place-with-matt-mewburn) _2026-07-21 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What happens when you take a Victorian era locomotive workshop, built in 1887, and turn it into a home for contemporary sculpture? Matt Mewburn has spent the last decade finding out. Matt is a blacksmith and sculptor, and the founder of Eveleigh Works, a working forge inside one of the last remaining industrial blacksmithing workshops in the world, complete with machinery dating back to the 1850s.… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/98648230-94eb-4655-a030-b48e00e1e21e/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [15 Books That Expanded the Way I Think About Images, Storytelling and Creativity](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/15-books-that-expanded-the-way-i) _2026-07-19 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ A reading list for people who already own 'Ways of Seeing' ## [The Reference Wall: Chloé](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/the-reference-wall-chloe) _2026-07-16 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Guy Bourdin, Dutch folklore, and a photobook of Miami pensioners and other things I think might be on the reference wall ## [The Industry Cares Less About Your Credentials Than You Fear](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/the-industry-cares-less-about-your) _2026-07-12 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why a clear eye and a real body of work outrun a certificate from any school ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5OYI3q9IoqBT) _2026-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [How to do Creative Visual Research in 2026](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/fashion-has-forgotten-how-to-research) _2026-07-09 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ The framework on how to approach visual creative research in 2026 ## [David Hepworth](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2026-07-08T22_52_29-07_00) _2026-07-09 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ Every day I get great old print ads popping up in my feed. I'm reminded of Volkswagen's self-deprecation, Nike’s humanity and BMW’s intelligence. It’s easy to forget that each owes its existence to a magazine. Whose huge readership is responsible for the quality of the ad. Putting your product in front of so many people justified billing so many creative hours. And signing off such an expensive… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-07-08T22_52_29-07_00.mp3?_=1783576358.17819359) ## [Designing the third space with Dr. Caroline Butler-Bowdon](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-the-third-space-with-dr-caroline-butler-bowdon) _2026-07-06 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What does an institution built in the 1820s have to teach us about designing for the future? Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon has spent two decades moving through museums, historic houses and public space, and now leads the State Library of NSW into its 200th year. In this episode, Caroline talks with Vince about the library as one of the last true third spaces, somewhere people come to be alone… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/2aa7dbd6-f4f1-4b04-9d8d-b47f010188b4/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Doing Nothing Is Part of the Creative Process](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/doing-nothing-is-part-of-the-creative) _2026-07-05 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why the gaps between projects are where the next idea actually forms ## [LAURENCE GREEN (Pt. 2)](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2026-06-30T05_12_21-07_00) _2026-06-30 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ Faxes. Magic Markers. Hard copies of Campaign. Offices. Grant projectors. PMTs. U-matics. Scalpels. Memos. Information Departments. Flash. Spray mount. Chinagraphs. Secretaries. Pinboards. Foamboard. Lightboxes. CS10. Lighter fuel. Paintbox. Dupes. 10x8s”. Contact sheets. Proofs. All gone. Replaced by something that did the job better. But what about all those great creative agencies, why did they… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-06-30T05_12_21-07_00.mp3?_=1782821549.17812836) ## [Instinct Needs Structure to Become a Creative Practice](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/instinct-needs-structure-to-become) _2026-06-26 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why taste on its own stalls, and what turns a way of seeing into actual work ## [LAURENCE GREEN Pt. 1](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2026-06-24T03_41_40-07_00) _2026-06-24 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ A planner! The third. Well, the other two weren’t talking about their careers, Paul Feldwick discussed his great book ‘Why Does The Pedlar Sing?’ and Sarah Carter reflected on working with John Webster. So maybe it's my first? Creative operating the seventies hated planners. 'They ruined the business’ and ‘they took all the fun out of advertising’ being their most common complaint. As they see it;… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-06-24T03_41_40-07_00.mp3?_=1782297727.17807464) ## [Quiet Luxury Is the Aesthetic of Economic Fear](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/quiet-luxury-is-the-aesthetic-of) _2026-06-21 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why restraint reads as fear now, and what the move to maximalism is actually about ## [MARTIN BOASE](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2026-06-15T09_32_08-07_00) _2026-06-15 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ I never knew Martin at BMP. He kept a desk there. So I'd occasionally spot his green Bentley in Bishopsbridge Road. There'd be the odd a sighting in the building, a bit like Bigfoot or the Yeti, a glimpse of a blurry Martin moving through corridors, but way in the distance. Perhaps because of this, it didn’t occur to me to pick up the phone and ask him to do a podcast about his amazing career. But… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-06-15T09_32_08-07_00.mp3?_=1781541145.17800069) ## [Being Many Things Is Not a Problem to Solve](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/being-many-things-is-not-a-problem) _2026-06-14 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ How the disciplines you can't choose between become the work only you can make ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/u6rIfOCQtG6e) _2026-06-14 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [A Photograph Doesn't Prove Anything Anymore](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/a-photograph-doesnt-prove-anything) _2026-06-07 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ What luxury image-making becomes when no one believes their eyes ## [The Editorial Budget Collapse](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/the-editorial-budget-collapse) _2026-06-02 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Where the money that built modern visual culture went, and what working image-makers can do now that scale and time are gone ## [Your Creative Signature Is Built With Someone Else](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/your-creative-signature-is-built) _2026-05-18 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why the image-makers you admire almost all climbed with a long-term creative partner, and how to find yours now ## [The End of Taste as Currency](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/the-end-of-taste-as-currency) _2026-05-10 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Why knowing the right references stopped being enough, and what differentiates work now ## [An Actual Introduction After Three Years](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/an-actual-introduction-after-three) _2026-05-07 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ Three years of writing about art direction, and the introduction I never quite got around to writing ## [We Made Brands So Safe They Stopped Being Interesting](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/we-made-brands-so-safe-they-stopped) _2026-05-01 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ What happens to art direction when the brief is "do not get us in trouble." ## [Designing lives, shaping lifestyles with Chad Oppenheim](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-lives-shaping-lifestyles-with-chad-oppenheim) _2026-04-27 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What happens when architecture is driven by passion, adventure and the power of nature? On the latest episode of Design Your Life, Chad Oppenheim joins Vince Frost for a wide-ranging conversation on creativity, resilience and designing life beyond buildings. From growing up in suburban New Jersey dreaming through films like Star Wars and James Bond and becoming fascinated by the dramatic… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/a745e152-511f-459b-b41b-b439006d3e1e/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [The Helmut Lang World Beyond Him](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/the-helmut-lang-world-beyond-him) _2026-04-21 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ A vocabulary outlived its author and 25 years on, other people are still finishing his sentences. ## [Designing scenes in architecture with Ismael Soto](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-scenes-in-architecture-with-ismael-soto) _2026-04-13 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What does it take to design spaces that feel like a series of carefully crafted scenes? In this episode, Vince sits down with architect Ismael Soto, founder of SOTO, whose global career spans some of the world's most influential practices before launching his own studio in Los Angeles. They discuss the role of research in design, the evolving impact of AI on architecture, and how new housing… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/ce7f3b6b-08f5-4892-94d5-b42b00e3aeb4/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [The Sofia Coppola World Beyond Her Films](https://artdirection.substack.com/p/the-sofia-coppola-world-beyond-her) _2026-04-12 · Zoë Yasemin · ART DIRECTION_ How one creative vision became a universe across film, fashion, publishing, and everything in between ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lh0zbzNLtkaG) _2026-04-12 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Designing site and place with Jeff Fearon & Tim Hay](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-site-and-place-with-jeff-fearon-tim-hay) _2026-03-30 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What does it take to build not just a successful practice, but a lasting partnership? In this episode, Vince sits down with Tim Hay and Jeff Fearon, founders of the critically acclaimed architecture and design practice Fearon Hay. Nearly 30 years into their journey, they reflect on how a shared vision, mutual respect and deep friendship have shaped both their work and their lives. From early… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/d50020c1-9d38-4006-9462-b41d011b4410/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Designing life with nature with Michael Kovac and Karina Maher](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-life-with-nature-with-michael-kovac-and-karina-maher) _2026-03-17 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What does it really mean to design for wellbeing? For husband and wife team architect Michael Kovac and pediatrician Karina Maher, it begins with understanding the powerful relationship between nature, environment and health. While their work comes from two very different disciplines, both are guided by the same belief: the spaces we inhabit have a profound impact on how we live and feel. Michael… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/63a7f359-bfd0-442f-9dc4-b41000b2ca89/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Designing performance with purpose with Claire Greaves](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-performance-with-purpose-with-claire-greaves) _2026-03-02 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ From launching P.E Nation onto the global stage to redefining how women move through their day, Claire Greaves has built brands that shape culture. But success is only one part of the story. In this episode, Claire shares how scaling fast, leading through pressure and navigating very public life changes ultimately led her to something more powerful than growth. Clarity. Now back in the business… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/fd687134-40f3-4bce-a43d-b40100c12f41/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Designing with a steady hand with Will Lynes](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-with-a-steady-hand-with-will-lynes) _2026-02-16 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What happens when you realise the world moves too fast for the things that matter most? For artist, sign writer and maker Will Lynes, the answer has always been craft - the kind built slowly, imperfectly and with both hands. Will is the founder of Lynes & Co . , known for their handcrafted lettering, gilding and detailed reverse-glass work that has shaped some of Australia's most memorable… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/613a7816-3dc0-4950-a740-b3f3010b4775/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [BARBARA NOKES Pt. 2](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2025-11-25T07_27_18-08_00) _2025-11-25 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ Bartle Bogle Hegarty opened its doors in 1982. Eight years later, Campaign voted them the agency of the decade. Why? Their work was considered, intelligent, and, in a decade often referred to as style-obsessed, BBH was the most style-obsessed. But they also had something few agencies have today; swagger. They had the confidence, or is it arrogance? to cut their own path. Refusing to do creative… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2025-11-25T07_27_18-08_00.mp3?_=1764084445.17610697) ## [Barbara Nokes Pt. 1](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2025-11-18T03_24_09-08_00) _2025-11-18 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ During my first year in advertising, a shiny new book turned up at the agency (Brooks Legon Bloomfield). Weirdly, some in the creative department referred to it as 'the bible'. It's actual name was The Designers & Art Directors Annual. I was told it showed the best advertising and design from the U.K. Although, also at this point, the U.K. arguably produced the best advertising and design on the… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2025-11-18T03_24_09-08_00.mp3?_=1763465066.17602768) ## [Derek Day Part 2.](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2025-09-19T07_27_30-07_00) _2025-09-19 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ To hear Derek tell it, his career was totally unplanned. One impetuous decision after the next. Leading to endless mistakes. Exhibit A: Quitting the best agency in the country to go on holiday with his girlfriend. (CDP) To me, it looks as meticulously pre-planned as any of the plots in the ‘Ocean’s’ films. STEP 1: Work for the best agencies in town: (CDP, BMP and DDB). STEP 2: A reconnaissance… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2025-09-19T07_27_30-07_00.mp3?_=1758292071.17537098) ## [Derek Day, Part 1.](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2025-09-11T10_23_51-07_00) _2025-09-11 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ Being one, I'm very aware of my fellow double d's out there in advertising. Dave Droga - met once, gave him a lift after judging D&AD together. Donny Deutsch - never met, seen him on Morning Joe though. David Denton - did a few ads with him at BMP, did Cointreau 'Ice melts', amongst many others. Don Draper – never met, seems cool. And Derek Day - less known than the first three, but well worth… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2025-09-11T10_23_51-07_00.mp3?_=1757611442.17529213) ## [John Webster & Research - Sarah Carter](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2025-06-25T08_52_23-07_00) _2025-06-25 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ You can count the number of Creatives who embrace research on one finger. The rest of us desperately try to fight it with lines like 'you can't research original ideas', 'the group gets lead by its most vocal member', 'the public can only judge finished ads, not research material', and on and on. Good arguments. But the argument against is better - John Webster. Once delivered, it's hard for us… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2025-06-25T08_52_23-07_00.mp3?_=1750866757.17451764) ## [JOHN WEBSTER by DAVE TROTT](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dave48919/episodes/2025-06-19T00_49_43-07_00) _2025-06-19 · Dave DYE · STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye_ British advertising may have had more successful businessmen. More accomplished creative directors. Bigger award winners. But never a better Creative. No one has more ideas living in British people’s heads than John Webster. They didn’t gatecrash either – they were invited in. Singing and dancing their way past the barriers and into the national consciousness. One big, happy conga line; Smash… [Listen](https://dave48919.podomatic.com/enclosure/2025-06-19T00_49_43-07_00.mp3?_=1750319398.17443678)