About this podcast
Creative Figures is a long-form interview show about how creative people actually live and work. One guest per episode — artists, designers, illustrators, writers, filmmakers, makers of every kind — and no hurry: the practice behind the portfolio, the decisions behind the career, the parts that never make the highlight reel. Between conversations, occasional solo episodes on craft and creative independence.
Filmed in full — watch at creativefigures.fm, or listen wherever you get your shows.
Hosted by Alen Kapetanovic.
Formerly CAPTN OffScript.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 104 episodes
- Rebeka Arce on wonder, the aesthetics of fear and being unfinished · 51 min · Season 3 Episode 105Rebeka Arce on growing up in a steel town, sharing doubt as a creative director at Collins, and the "aesthetics of fear" in design. "I feel like LLMs are built to please us, not…
- Erik Herrström on the Pinterest trap · 3 min · Season 3 Episode 104Designer Erik Herrström on why starting a project on Pinterest leads every designer to the same work, and the research his studio uses instead. "If you start your project by…
- Murugiah on reinvention and following the fun · 4 min · Season 3 Episode 103llustrator and artist MURUGIAH on whether artists should reinvent themselves, and why he follows the fun instead. "Don't let what you did last get in the way of what you want to…
- Nick Liefhebber on paper cuts, printmaking and working with limitations · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 102Illustrator Nick Liefhebber on paper cuts, woodcut printmaking, going independent one day at a time, and why limitations shape his work. "When you just start making things you…
- Erik Herrström on brands that move culture, David Bowie and working without mood boards · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 101Designer Erik Herrström on his book The Echo, why his studio never shows clients a mood board, and designing identities for Whitney Houston and Elvis Presley. "We never show mood…
- Murugiah on persistence, identity and his first museum show · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 100Illustrator and artist MURUGIAH on leaving architecture, finding his own style, and opening the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration with his first solo museum show. "Everything…
- E99 - Second Take: Kieron Anthony Lewis, "A Book Inside Concrete" · 4 min · Season 2Kieron Anthony Lewis opens this one by saying he cannot do the project justice by describing it. That you almost have to see it. He is right, which is awkward for a podcast. So…
- E98 - Second Take: Andy J. Pizza, "Cultivate Yourself, Don't Overcome Yourself" · 6 min · Season 2I asked Andy how long it took him to start liking himself the way he is. He did not give me a number. He said it is something he has to constantly return to and refresh. This is…
- E97 — Second Take: Gemma O'Brien, "What Flow Actually Feels Like" · 8 min · Season 2Gemma O'Brien describes flow as a forgetting of yourself. Fully absorbed, at one with the work, no sense of time passing. Then the conversation turns to boredom, and that half is…
- E96 - Second Take: Mat Voyce, "I Hated Motion Design" · 7 min · Season 2Mat Voyce makes motion work for Nike, Pepsi and Disney+. He also tried animation at university, hated it, and decided he would never do it again. This is Second Take, a new short…
- Bonus 007 - Simon Flöter: His Grandfather's Love Letters & What He'd Make if Money Didn't Matter · 4 min · Season 2This is the seventh Captn OffScript bonus, and the last one of Season 2. After a main episode spent in the trenches, I asked Simon Flöter one question that flips it all upside…
- S02/E38 - Simon Flöter on Life in the Trenches & Not Making Decisions From Fear · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 38For the final episode of Season 2, I didn't want a victory lap. Simon Flöter is a German illustrator, designer and developer living in Amsterdam, and he told me early on: this is…
- Bonus 006 - Halli Thorleifsson: Rebuilding Yourself Brick by Brick · 7 min · Season 2This is the sixth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. In Halli Thorleifsson's main episode we covered everything he's built: the agency he sold to Twitter and rebuilt, the almost…
- Bonus 005 — Teresa Ferreira: Whose Voice Is That? Making Peace with Imposter Syndrome · 8 min · Season 2This is the fifth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Teresa Ferreira and I recorded her main episode, we got into imposter syndrome and self-worth, and it was honest enough…
- S02/E37 - Halli Thorleifsson on Building Ueno Twice & Designing Things People Actually Use · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 37Haraldur "Halli" Thorleifsson built the design agency Ueno from nothing, sold it to Twitter in 2021, and made a decision almost nobody makes: he structured the sale so he'd pay…
- S02/E36 - Teresa Ferreira on Digging Her Way Into Design & Letting Go of the Perfect Day · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 36Some people walk a straight line into design. Teresa Ferreira dug her way in, through archaeology. She was born in Lisbon, spent part of her childhood in Macau, has lived in…
- Bonus 004 - Gemma O'Brien: Making Peace with Burnout & Studying the Flow State · 11 min · Season 2This is the fourth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Gemma O'Brien and I recorded her main episode, we got into burnout and flow, and I held that part back for this. It went…
- Bonus 003 - Radim Malinic: The Sabre-Tooth Tiger in Your Head & Why You Can't Unlearn Fear · 6 min · Season 2This is the third bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Radim Malinic and I recorded his main episode, the conversation about fear came near the end, and it was good enough that…
- S02/E35 - Gemma O'Brien on Getting Bored of Herself & Refusing to Pick One Thing · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 35Gemma O'Brien is a lettering artist, a fine artist, a muralist, and most recently a student of neuroaesthetics. She's painted a billboard in Times Square, had work acquired by a…
- Bonus 002 - Martyna Wędzicka: Posters Made of Yarn & Why Graphic Designers Don't Retire · 7 min · Season 2This is the second bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Martyna Wędzicka and I recorded her main episode, we spent most of it on the past and the present. But right at the end…
