Creative Legends
Creative Legends
Podcast Description
A raw, honest, and inspiring podcast where creative professionals share the real side of being a creative professional—the wins, the fails, and design tales. Hosted by CJ Cawley, a logo and brand designer who’s been through the wringer, Creative Legends dives deep into the journeys of logo designers, brand identity experts, and creative minds from around the world.
If you're a creative looking for motivation, real talk, and a bit of chaos, this is the podcast for you.
🔥 No fluff. No ego. Just creative legends sharing their truth.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as the realities of freelance design, overcoming setbacks, and the intricacies of building a creative career. Episodes cover specific stories, like Jack Chitty's transition from zero clients to designing for global brands, discussing serious topics like burnout and external validation alongside inspiring breakthroughs.
Sticky Notes is the podcast hosted by CJ Cawley and Jack Chitty. Two brand designers sit down each week and unpack the reality of running a creative business. No fluff, no gatekeeping, no pretending they’ve got it all figured out. We talk about the wins, the failures, and everything in between. From niching (or not), finding clients, pricing your work, and building a brand… to creative blocks, self-doubt, and the messy side of freelancing that no one really shows.
Welcome to the first-ever episode of Sticky Notes. The podcast for graphic designers, logo designers, and brand designers who are figuring out how to build a freelance design studio.In this episode, we’re tackling one of the biggest questions in the design industry: To niche or not to niche? Should you specialise in one style, one industry, one type of client? Or should you stay broad, flexible, and take on a bit of everything?This is something Jack has been wrestling with, so we break it down properly:– The pressure to niche as a designer– Whether niching actually helps you get clients– The risk of boxing yourself in– My experience niching (and not niching) as a brand designer– How to figure out what you actually want to be known for
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