Design Your Life with Vince Frost

Design Your Life podcast Episode 013 with Vince Frost in conversation with graphic design icon, Matt Willey.In 2014 Matt was named 'Designer of the Year' by Creative Review, and was elected as a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) in 2015. After many roles working as a graphic designer across a number of international magazines, at times alongside Vince Frost, he has gone from founding his own graphic agency, Studio 8 in London, to now where he has spent the last five years in New York as the current Art Director for the New York Times. In this episode, Matt shares how he essentially “fell-in” to his career as a designer, his wellness tactic of “feeling uncomfortable” to get out of his introverted shell, and the major turning point of his life after being clinically diagnosed as deaf at a young age, and how not being able to hear enough actually helped him hear more. Stay tuned for Episode 014 featuring Design Director for Condé Nast’s flagship title, Vanity Fair, Chris Dixon. Matt Willeyfrostcollective.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Design Your Life podcast Episode 012 with Vince Frost in conversation with local Aussie Yoga Guru, Entrepreneur, and Humming Puppy Founder, Jackie Alexander.Jackie is the co-founder of revolutionary new yoga house Humming Puppy, which focuses on sound healing by introducing frequency and vibration to the rooms to align energies. Jackie made the massive decision to change her life as a dental practice manager to a global entrepreneur and Yogi. Today, her four-year-old practice Humming Puppy has three locations across Melbourne, Sydney and New York, and is carefully designed to deliver the most positive experience possible. In this episode, Jackie reveals how she has designed a successful and spiritually fulfilling life by finding the courage to listen to her inner ‘ah-ha’ moments and act on them – especially when the risk is so high.Stay tuned for Episode 013 featuring New York Times Magazine Art Director, Matt Willey.hummingpuppy.comfrostcollective.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Design Your Life podcast Episode 011 with Vince Frost in conversation with photographic icons, the Douglas Brothers. British photographer/director siblings Andrew and Stuart Douglas are renowned creatives, known primarily for their rebellious approach to photography and film direction. Having grown up in Southend Essex and later, London, the pair’s legacy began in the midst of the London punk movement, where they used their “incorrect” style to snap some of the world’s most iconic figures during their youth, including Richard Gere, Morrissey, Timothy Roth and Tilda Swinton. Since then, their work has evolved and continued to disrupt the creative and commercial worlds alike, with their left-of-centre work for Adidas, Coco Cola and Hollywood feature-length films. In this episode, Andrew and Stuart share their personal and professional stories – which are often one in the same. They recount their origins, moving from stills to videos, how working with your brother can simultaneously result in your best work and decade-long feuds, and ultimately how they “find wellness while keeping the hamster-wheel going.” Stay tuned for Episode 012 featuring local Aussie Yoga Guru, Entrepreneur, and Humming Puppy Founder, Jackie Alexander.thedouglasbrothers.comfrostcollective.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Design Your Life podcast Episode 010 with Vince Frost in conversation with Australian advertising guru, Russel Howcroft.Russel is an internationally acclaimed advertising professional and media personality best known as a panellist on the ABC satirical television show The Gruen Transfer. Getting his start at the tail-end of the ‘Mad Men’ era, Russel’s acumen has seen him in enviable positions with prestigious firms around the world such as London’s renowned Lowe Howard Spink and Australia’s George Patterson Y&R. Recently, Russel has taken a side-step from advertising into a new role as Chief Creative Officer with global accounting consultancy PwC.In this episode, Russel’s shares why he turned down major career opportunities, what the massive cultural shifts in advertising throughout the last 30 years have meant for his career, and his now mission to educate Australia on “the power of commercial creativity”. Up next on the Design Your Life podcast we have photographic icons the Douglas Brothers.  frostcollective.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Design Your Life podcast Episode 009 with American creative James Victore. James Victore is an American art director, designer, and author. He is first-and-foremost an artist who “teaches creativity and personal growth,” says the man himself. Victore's work has been exhibited in the wildly prestigious Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as well as the Louvre in Paris. He has won numerous awards and accolades for his racy unique social and political commentary posters as well as television directorials (including an Emmy), and has even published a tell-all monograph titled, Who Died and Made You Boss? Featuring not just his highly sought-after work, but the ideas and thinking that drive it. In this episode you’ll discover James’s seismic life shift, transitioning from his career as a designer to a creative and personal growth teacher. Here, James dissects the finer points of his life as an artistic educator, and his – at times – tumultuous journey to rediscovering his passion and creative purpose without “shoving his ‘weird’ in a draw”. Stay tuned for Episode 010 featuring ABC’s The Gruen Transfer panelist Russel Howcroft. Jamesvictore.comfrostcollective.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Drew Bilbe and Troy Douglas founded Nexba, the award-winning naturally sugar free Australian soft drinks business, in 2010. They were in their early 20s and had no experience in beverage business. Theirs is a truly disruptive brand driven by passion and purpose. They’re now stocked in Coles nationally and are now launching global distribution to the USA and UK. They believe their products can have a big impact on saving lives from obesity and diabetes. In this episode you’ll discover their turning point, six years into businesses, when they “cracked” their naturally sugar free recipe, raised some much-needed capital and updated their brand. This is the story of an innovative Australian brand founded on a partnership of complimentary interests and contrasting skills. Stay tuned for Episode 009 featuring artist and designer James Victore.nexba.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adman David Nobay is a true visionary. An award winning Creative Director, Nobay has worked for leading agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and Droga5, and now as Executive Creative Chairman for Publicis Group’s Marcel.In this episode, Nobay divulges his secret to the development of a high performing creative team; discussing with Vince the importance of being “hard on the work and soft on the people.”A fascinating insight into the adventurous life and learning’s of one adman’s career - from New York to London and Australia - over three decades. Venture behind the scenes of work and creative collaboration with some of the world’s most powerful brands, and discover the mindset required to enjoy longevity at the top. Don't forget to tune in to the next episode of Design Your Life featuring Drew Bilbe & Troy Douglas, founders of Nexba, an award-winning naturally sugar free Australian soft drink.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Jodie Lowinger is a clinical and corporate psychologist, business coach and speaker on topics of mental strength and anxiety. She helps everyone from CEOs to adolescents and children reduce anxiety while building resilience. For large organisations, this means developing mental strength, agility and resilience to enable peak performance in leaders and teams. In this episode you’ll discover how a personal tragedy helped steer her path to working one on one with people, the unique way creative people face anxiety, and why she thinks a major issue we all have to deal with is, “we’re wired to be anxious, and longing to survive”.Stay tuned for Episode 007 featuring the unparalleled adman with a career spanning over 30 years, David Nobay.mindstrength.com.au sydneyanxietyclinic.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Design Your Life podcast Episode 005 with Ronni KahnRonni Kahn is a truly inspiring and resilient woman. Her fight against our global food waste “epidemic” is relentless. She founded the ground breaking food rescue charity OzHarvest in 2004, opened Australia’s first ‘rescued food’ supermarket in 2017, and became the focus of a feature-length documentary film titled Food Fighter earlier this year. Through her work Kahn has helped nourish millions of vulnerable people, changed food donation laws, and has been an official partner of the United Nations Environment since 2013.In this episode you’ll discover what inspired her, at the age of 52, to take on the world’s mammoth food waste problem, where her sense of purpose comes from and how her experiences of growing up in South Africa followed by Israel in the 80s have helped shape her into the person she is today.Stay tuned for Episode 006 featuring clinical and corporate psychologist Dr Jodie Lowinger.forpurposeco.comfightfoodwaste.orgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paula Scher is an iconic graphic designer, has been a partner in the New York Pentagram office since 1991, and is an inspiration to generations of designers around the world. Vince Frost is one of them. Her 40-years of experience have seen her work for Microsoft and Citibank and she’s featured in the Netflix series Abstract:The Art of Design by Scott Dadich.In this episode you’ll discover why she had to fight for a career as a designer, and how she made it work in New York City without a penny to her name. You’ll also learn why she thinks it’s not possible to ‘Design Your Life’, and how she reinvents herself every five years as part of her process around design.Stay tuned for Episode 005 featuring the inimitable force driving a global food-waste revolution, Ronni Kahn. pentagram.com/about/paula-scher designyourlife.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.