85 | Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of Lines & Color. Dave Arcade on Creative Freedom, NFT’s, Bono, and Nudging the Line.

Margo is joined by the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of lines and color aka Dave Arcade. Dave is an Illustrator with a degree in graphic design and his style is born of his inner designer doing its best to talk down the numerous influences of his youth. He left behind a 10 year career as an art director to pursue freelance illustration. He has a true depth of style that delivers a one-two punch of strong thinking couched in elaborate and colorful compositions.

Margo and Dave discuss:

  • His background in ad agency work and spending 10 years as a Creative Director

  • When it why it can be good to “be the problem”

  • The messy middle, and appreciating the process that takes place to complete a project

  • Allowing yourself to have fun with your work

  • Storytelling in art

  • Transitioning out of ad work and some of his first big freelance projects

  • NFT’s

Dave’s pieces are absurd and conceptually complex and demand more than a passing glance. If he’s not pining over music gear he’s doing work for brands like Google, Nickelodeon, Disney, Adobe, Activision and Discovery Channel.

Connect with Dave: 

https://www.davearcade.com/

https://www.instagram.com/davearcade/

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