Creative Career
Portfolios, mentorship, leadership, personal branding, and building a career that lasts.
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Honest conversations, practical advice, and fresh perspectives for designers building better work, stronger businesses, and careers that last. Hosted by Nick Longo. Mikelle Morrison, and Tom Lauro.
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Real talk. Real experience.
The design conversations we wish we’d had sooner.
The Deeply Graphic Designcast is for designers, freelancers, creative business owners, and anyone trying to build a meaningful career in the creative industry.
Since 2012, DGDC has talked candidly about the things design school doesn’t always teach: finding your voice, working with clients, pricing your value, building a business, navigating change, and staying inspired for the long game.
No vague motivation. No industry posturing. Just ideas you can put to work.Deeper than design
Everything it takes
to make it as a creative.
Creative Business
Freelancing, pricing, clients, positioning, entrepreneurship, and sustainable growth.
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Branding, collaboration, creative thinking, presentation, and making stronger work.
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AI, technology, culture, changing roles, and where creative work goes next.
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Design gets better when we talk about it.
Working designers, candid stories, unexpected lessons, and the kind of conversations that keep going long after the recording stops.
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Rated 4.7 out of 5 by hundreds of listeners.Behind the mic
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Nick Longo
Branding specialist, creative director, educator, mentor, Adobe presenter, and owner of Longo Designs. Nick brings more than 25 years of experience spanning brand strategy, packaging, product development, teaching, and creative-business mentorship.
His goal is simple: help creatives skip years of unnecessary guessing and build careers that work in the real world.
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