Episode 1: Why I’m Starting The Honest Designer Diaries

The Honest Designer Diaries is a podcast about what it’s actually like to build a life and career as a designer, beyond the nice work we share online.

Hosted by Juls, a brand designer and design educator from Glasgow with over 30 years in the industry, each episode is a real chat with designers about the situations, decisions and wobbles that shape a creative career. We’ll talk about going freelance before you feel ready, dealing with quiet spells in business, moving from in-house work into running your own creative business, working with brands like Canva and Adobe, handling tricky clients, confidence, comparison and all the bits designers usually talk about in DMs, over tea, or after a glass of wine.

It’s honest, useful and reassuring, for designers at every stage who are still figuring it out as they go.

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