01 | What happens when you design a famous logo, and try to find a job you really love. A great conversation with Nicole Larue.

On this episode, Margo chats with Nicole LaRue, a graphic designer and illustrator whose own adventures have taken her across the world from California to South Korea to Japan and more. Now residing in Salt Lake City UT, she spends her days as the Art Director, Designer & Illustrator for Gibbs Smith Publisher & Spumoni Studio.

Nicole and Margo discuss: 

  • Nicole’s graphic design journey

  • The trickiness of managing business and creativity

  • Creating the Women’s March on Washington logo and how the opportunity found her

  • The trickle effect of opportunity that arose after creating the logo

  • How understanding human design has helped her as a freelance designer

  • The importance of learning our own creative processes

  • And more!

Some of her clients include: The Women’s March on Washington, Chronicle Books, Abrams

Books, Gibbs Smith Publisher, Oxford University Press, Compendium, Inc., Madison Park

Greetings, Johnson & Johnson, Spumoni, Chatbooks, Tiny Prints, DC Shoes, American Eagle & more.

Ways to Connect with Nicole: 

www.smallmadegoods.com

https://www.instagram.com/smallmadegoods/

https://www.facebook.com/nicole.larue.509

https://spumonistudio.com/

Small and Mighty – An Activist’s Guide for Finding Your Voice & Engaging with the World

Girl Almighty – An Interactive Journal for Being a Mighty Activist of the World & Other Utterly Respectable Pursuits

 

3 People Who Inspire Nicole:

Art Spiegelman

Lisa Congdon

Shepard Fairey

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