LIACast 70 - Mastering Your Schedule with Dave Seah

Dave Seah is an information designer, stationary designer, and highly reflective prolific blogger. In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast, Jerzy and Rob have a conversation with Dave Seah about anything from blogging to getting started being an independent creator.

How did Dave become so mindful with his process? How did he journey from being a computer programmer to being a designer? We cover lots of ground!

Also: Quest 3 has been EXTENDED!

Links Mentioned in this Episode

• Dave Seah's Blog
• Devloping Operating Principles
• Groundhog Day Resolutions Primer
• The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste -- by Tom Hodgkinson
• Gilmore Girls
• Dave Seah on Twitter
• Saving Private Ryan
• Na No Wri Mo
• Emergent Task Planner
• Definition of a Carpet Bagger
• Apple II Gemstone Warrior
• The Oatmeal Comic - Making Things
• Cannonball Run Outtakes
• Trello
• Dave's Trello Board
• 2-up Emergent Task Planner Template
• Quantified Self
• Art & Story Podcast
• Dave Seah Creative Cootie Catcher
• Sid & Dave's Unnamed Podcast

Workshops, Flexible for Your Schedule

• Lean Into Art Workshops

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

LIACast 70 - Mastering Your Schedule with Dave Seah

LIA Cast 53 - Self-Learning Skillset: Research

Why do we need to understand how to research? In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast we work through the uses, reasons, and strategies of applied research for creative projects.

We get into tools we use for our writing, drawing, and interactive project research. We go way beyond: "Can’t we just Google it?"!

Links Mentioned in this Episode

Workshops

• Lean Into Art Workshops
• Workshop Pick of the Week: Lettering with Adobe Illustrator

People

• Kasey Van Hise
• Krishna Sadasivam
• Grant Morrison
• Dan Mishkin
• Len Wein

Arts and Media

• Five Finger Death Punch - Official Site
• Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding
• Cap'n Cat: Former Shark Hunter

Events

• SPX: Small Press Expo (September 15-16)
• Ignatz Awards
• Fallcon October 6
• MorrisonCon

Tools

• Pinterest
• Evernote (a.k.a. brain-in-the-sky)
• IFTTT (automate web-based apps)
• Evernote Web Clipper
• FreeMind (free mind mapping tool)
• MindNode (Mac OSX mind mapping tool)
• iThoughtsHD (iPad mind mapping tool)
• Mac Journal
• Day One (journal app)
• Omnigraffle (diagramming, mapping, and design tool)
• Visio (diagramming, mapping, and design tool)
• Scribe (outlining tool)
• OmniOutliner (outlining tool)
• Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

References

• Sailor Language
• OPML
• Pure Research
• Applied Research
• How to do a boolean search?
• Web Monkey - Tutorials and Articles

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

LIACast 53 Self-Learning Skillset - Research

LIA Cast 42 - Iterations Breed Creativity

Don't Stick With Your First Idea.

Is this always true? Does the best idea always happen in the second, third, or fourth iteration of your project? Or does iterating on our projects yield other learning opportunities? It's a fun talk about the secrets unlocked through iterating on our character designs, story outlines, and other creative projects.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• The Kids' Comics Revolution Podcast
• Rob's Polytechnicast on Iteration
• Megadeth

Social Networking

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

LIA Cast 42 - Iteration Breeds Creativity