Musings Behind The Creative: Recent Episodes
Studio RDN-x
The pod was birthed from studio rdn-x design directors own personal experiences and from the lack of visibility that a lot of black/African students have when it comes to ‘things i wish i had known’.
While also discussing the black experience. What it takes to be a black designer in the industry, from our educational experiences to how we transverse personal and cultural experiences.
The podcast becomes a tool of story telling, while giving its listeners an insight to the design mindset of a creative.
Understanding various different ways to heal PTSD trauma by speaking with other women of colour. Introduction to the medicine shell, Musings lounge with Co host Ms. Rho
Fantastic Mr Marcel is a London based artist, with a background in different creative paths.
On eveolving his muics career he says “I started out pretty much listening to a lot of music and singing along to it with the door so loud. I sang a lot almost every day and I was really bad at it so my mum was always telling me to be quiet. I just really love the feeling I got when I was doing it so I started commenting pen to paper to write my own music and it went from there really.
My goals for 2001 was to put out my first album and release it. It's not an impossible achievement but it's taken me about 5 years to get my first mixtape together and there's been so much change and growth in me as a person, performer and musician. So that was my aim for 2019. Then I released a few singles after to be able to share a new side of me with the listeners.
Join us as we sit down and explore the many different paths of an artist becoming.
On this weeks episode, i share my thoughts on the passing of Chadwick Boseman the lessons i have learnt on his work ethics and how we share and present ourselves in a world that is generally unforgiving.
On today's episode we sit with Tosin Oshinow a registered Architect in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and also a member of the Royal Institute of the British Architects. She has been lead Architect at cmDesign Atelier (cmD+A) since 2012. cmD+A is an architecture design consultancy practice based in Lagos and is best known from the Maryland Mall, which opened in June 2016. We talk all things Architecture, the blurred lens of history and working with our counter parts in the office. This is an episode that is charged with all the culture nuances that we find with having a multi national identity.
In this episode of my personal musings, i talk about how to reinvent yourself to allow you to generate a steady income.
We sit down with Otee Evong, the CEO and creative head of The Vongii Culture and Tatabyvongii. Otee Evong has had the pleasure of working with work with a few celebrities in the past, like; Falz the bad guy, Rude Boy aka Psquare to mention a few...
We sit down with Jimmy Lee Wilson Jr. and talk all things creative, cultural and spiritual. Jimmy was born and raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He not only pastors the church but is also the founder/chairman for the internationally known Jimmy Lee Wilson Jr. Ministries, Inc., Next Level Youth Empowerment, Inc., and Extraordinary Realty Group, LLC (ERG). He believes strongly in the economic empowerment of black people world wide, the abolishing of systematic racism world wide,
In this episode i talk about micro aggressions, mentorship & honouring your needs in a meaningful way.
We take the time to look at how Akeelah's work flows inform her work, while dissecting ideas central to world core views.
In this episode i talk about ways of honouring yourself through your work as a creative.
We sit down with Derick Ofodirinwa, to talk about his current book while exploring literature through spirituality and mythology of Igbo identity & culture in the mainstream.
I take you through my internal and external work flows while developing my identity as a creative & interior architect.
We catch Rebeckah Kemi Apara who is an embroidery designer and founder of Embellished Talk. We discuss her creative path explored through textiles, and balancing home life with forging your creative path as a textile artist. Rebeckah is a self-taught designer and teaches people the basics of hand embroidery.
I dive into how i have been coping with the lock down, and forging a direction through your work.
Eseosa "Sosa" Eke is the CCO and founder of IconiQ Creative Group, a marketing agency servicing clients internationally and in the New York Tri-State Area. In the mid 2000's, Sosa quit a pursuit of law school to feed her passion for business, and design.
On this episode i talk with Halima Ali on her experiences as a black woman in her architectural education.
How cultural history and design history changes overtime and how you can connect the dots in your design research.
On this episode i share some of the pitfalls we as creatives face and how you can transverse your creative landscape with helpful with tips and tricks.
This episode is focused on helpful tips that i wish i was given when i was developing my creative path in design.
On this episode i tell you a bit about myself, and give some background to why i created musings be creative.