Of Pies and Men
by thisnorthernboy
My friend Jon Elliman and I have recently started a podcast – North v South. Episode 2 was recorded and released last night (thank’s to Jon’s amazingly quick edit), and it’ll be a weekly schedule from now on.
Jon and I met while working at the same design agency in St Margarets and got on very well right from the start, particularly the chat that designers enjoy (sometimes endure) across the top of an iMac. As Jon and I both freelance from home now, we realised how much we missed that aspect of working in a studio, so the podcast is an attempt to replicate that feeling. The title of the podcast, North v South is an allusion to the fact that Jon comes from the southern shires of England, and I hail from the north.
The first episode finds me chatting to Jon about how I got my start in design, after a couple of false starts, and about my move in to illustration. We discuss the merits of the iPad Pro and Pencil for drawing, which sketchbooks I use for what purposes. We also talk about pies.
In episode two I turn the tables and quiz Jon about how he went from being a scholar of medieval literature, to running his own design studio. Jon also explains the story behind his epic WWI historical project – Frank Crawshaw. We touch upon Russian prison tattoos, office pets, and we, once again, talk about pies.
Future topics of conversation in the podcast are:
Fighting Fantasy Books
Tools of the designer’s trade
Einstein’s Cross
A history of pies
Pen Talk
The U.S. Ghost Army
Blitz-stricken, London-dockland, epileptic, bipolar depressive
and…
Procrastination.
You can find the North v South podcast on SoundCloud and on iTunes.
this northern boy 
What a wonderful poster! Really fantastic. I wish you all the best for your new podcast.
Thanks, all the credit for the image goes to Jon Elliman.
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