On today’s show, we’re joined by designers-extraordinaires, Rory King and Brenden Lovejoy.
Rory is a multidisciplinary designer, art director, and writer based in New York City. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy Of Art, and has collaborated with artists, architects, curators, and musicians in addition to working with various agencies and companies such as 2×4, Sony Music Entertainment, Instrument, Look Studios, OnePlus, 321 Gallery, and Cranbrook Art Museum. He is currently a Principal Designer at Vox Media and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute.
Brenden is a monomaniacal hyper-collector of the weird / gross, designer toys, oddities, pop culture and most importantly, graffix. As a designer with a deep passion for YouTube fuckery and 90's sitcoms, you might find Brenden asleep on his lovingly recreated Rosanne afghan while the Will & Grace laugh track softly echoes around his pitch black room. You might also find him using the Illustrator pen tool under the watchful gaze of twenty five not-quite-right Garfield statues. He's a Libra and blue cheese addict—try him, bitch. ♡
We talk with Rory and Brenden about all the types of NUTZ, retina-bleeding accessibility panics, amateur aesthetics, and about why everyone should do anything besides talking about design.
Thanks to Brenden and Rory for hanging out with us! You can find them online at brendenlovejoy.com and rorykingetc.com, respectively.