139 - Kelsi Sharp on Using Non-Digital Tools in Your Creative Practice

DSpeaksEpisode_139

Are you used to creating with your computer or camera, but have always been interested in taking a more ‘hands on’ approach to creativity? In this episode, listen as fellow designer,Kelsi Sharp of Sharp Design Co. gives some advice on how to step away from digital mediums and find inspiration by crafting with your hands. 

 

 

 On this week’s episode:

“Breaking that habit, which is like super lazy of just going to [Pinterest], and just putting down the devices, flipping open like a national geographic magazine and stuff like that.”  -Kelsi Sharp, Sharp Design Co.

Find creative inspiration by working with your hands:

    • Push your boundaries
    • Use new mediums with new projects
    • Make sure your process originates in the physical world

 

 

Featured Music

Wonder by Jamie Drake

    1.  

This Week’s Uncommon Inspiration

    • Tornado weather
    • The Rothko-esque look of the sky and sand in White Sands, New Mexico

 

 

 

Resources & Other Things We Talked About

    •  

“As creators, as creatives, we have the unique ability to. Not only have wonder in the world around us and appreciate it, but to practice having a mindset of wonder and being able to use that wonder to create.” -Brandi Sea

Email
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Pinterest

Want to support us?

SHARE THIS PODCAST WITH A FRIEND or

Visit Patreon and help support our podcast! We would be eternally grateful! We can’t do this without YOU.  You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going.

Also, if you get any value out of this show if you would please rate and review our podcast on iTunes!

Have a question, comment, or episode subject request?
Send an email to brandi@brandisea.com

 

Find us on all forms of social media @designspeakspodcast

Find Brandi @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

Find Julie @juliehaider 

Find Dakota @realdakotacook

 

 

Thank You To

The ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his song “Shatter in The Night” as our theme music on every episode of Design Speaks.

Producers Kenneth Kniffin and Dakota Cook.

Podcast Cover Art Illustration by Pippa Keel – @pippa.jk of Zhu Creative

Copyright ©BrandiSea 2020. All Rights reserved.

Design Speaks Episode 139  – Chapter 11: Kelsi Sharp on Using Non-Digital Tools in Your Creative Practice