Design Icons Podcast

Creative leaders, thoughtful insights, actionable takeaways.

Brought to you by Noun Project, the world’s most diverse and extensive collection of icons and mission-driven photos.

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Mick Champayne, Google

Mick Champayne is a designer on the Google Doodles & Delight team, who moonlights as an illustrator. In a nutshell, she loves internet culture, navel-gazing about the future, and connecting people through visual storytelling and concept-driven design. From doodles to design, she's always scheming ways to inject a little personality and friendliness into anything she makes.

Frank Bach, Instagram

Frank Bach is a Staff Product Designer at Instagram, formerly at Headspace. He's interested in the relationship between mindfulness and creativity: how meditation can empower you to be a stronger designer and more engaged contributor. His work spans product, growth and brand design.

Grace Ling, Design Buddies

Grace Ling is the Founder of Design Buddies - a massive design community hosted both online and in-real-life events. She is a UX designer, product designer, illustrator, community builder, and content creator. She has built a huge personal brand across various social media networks, spoken at over 100 events, and has been featured in New York Times Square and Wall Street Journal.

This episode features a live conversation with Grace where over 100 attendees joined to listen in. We cover how to get started with building a personal brand, what to focus on as you grow, and what to avoid as well.

Evante Daniels, SEEQER

We talk with Evante Daniels about Cultural Physics and how to build resonance that's felt, remembered, and trusted through design and marketing. Evante is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer at SEEQER, a cultural intelligence firm. His professional background spans industrial design, brand strategy, and marketing leadership.

Evante shares how we can define and work intentionally with the forces shaping collective perception. We cover what cultural physics is, why it matters to designers and marketers, and how to actually work with culture instead of trying to get lucky.


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