1125 - DESIGN SPEAKS PODCAST | Featuring Mark Brickey
Don’t miss this awesome episode as Brandi interviews Mark Brickey, creator of Adventures in Design Podcast. You’ll get to hear his take on creative flow, how to make space for being inspired, and how to take the things we love and make marketable content for consumers who share the same interests. Featured MusicThis Must Be the Place by Sure Sure "This Week's Inspiration... Hiking: the difference between hiking and exploring and how that relates to designing when it comes to having a plan. "I was thinking about design and how so many designers are explorers and hikers. It's--it's very much like, "I'm just going to kind of get on the computer and I have this client, but I--I sort of have, like, I know where it needs to be. Like, I know I need to find an end. I don't really know what that looks like. I don't know what I might find along the way. You know, I'm creative and I'm an artist and I'm just going to like go with whatever"--and you will need rescuing. You're going to get lost because you don't have a goal. You don't have a plan." -BrandiSea
Mark Brickey’s advice
– Be open to inspiration everywhere. If you can’t find it then you’re not truly open to it.“Inspiration is all around me and, like many things, the more you open your heart and the mind to it, the more that you catch.” -Mark Brickey
– If you look for negativity, that’s all you’ll find.
– Realize that money is not what decides your value.
– Money is great and necessary, but it doesn’t buy you success, it buys you the freedom to be able to do what you want to do.“Because you’re creative; your passion is above profitability. That’s both a blessing and a curse; but you have to keep in mind that money’s greatest value isn’t the things that you buy or the peace of mind that comes with it. Money’s greatest value is it buys you freedom.” -Mark Brickey
– If you’re not doing what you love and putting it out there, no one will ever pay you to do it.
“The idea is, do what you love and the people that also love that will be drawn to you and your style.” -Mark Brickey