The Quickie - Conversations with Designers

Dave Hopkins

Booking Overview

The Quickie is a short-form design-focused show where host Dave Hopkins talks with practicing creative pros about their careers, creative process, and real-world lessons across branding, illustration, and packaging. For PR professionals, it’s a strong outlet to reach working designers and creative directors with credible, practical stories and portfolio-worthy work.

Metrics

Episodes: 326

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 11.7k subscribers

Instagram: 19.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

daveh.h2c@gmail.com

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Host

Dave Hopkins - Host of The Quickie - Conversations with Designers. Dave leads candid, inspiration-forward interviews with graphic designers, illustrators, creative directors, and other creative professionals, typ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Working or recently working graphic designers, illustrators, creative directors, art directors, and design leaders (freelance or in-house/agency/brand) with a tangible body of work in branding, packaging, print, or product/UX; ideally with an interesting career narrative or project lessons.

Required Achievements:

Established portfolio with recognizable brand/packaging/illustration work, Experience across freelancing and/or in-house corporate environments, Demonstrated leadership such as creative direction or team leadership, Notable project outcomes (e.g., high-impact campaigns, lessons learned from setbacks)

Recent Guest Discussions

Zuza Hicks - Personality-driven Branding; Polish Poster School Influence; Symbolism/constraints; Managing Creative Teams And Art Direction Lessons; Communication With Clients; Resurgence Of Print.

Kytana Le - Career Journey Into Design; Print/tactile Design Obsession; Corporate Design Process Challenges; Work On Samurai Jack Promos For Adult Swim; Stakeholder Communication; Tarot As A Creative/life Practice.

Colby Clites - Creative Background; Freelance Highs/lows; Packaging Mishap Turning Into A PR Campaign; Practical Creative Habits (playlist) And Design Work In Consumer Brands.

Recent Topics

Graphic Design, Branding, Illustration, Packaging, Creative Direction

Episodes

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The Quickie - Conversations with Designers

Why freelance designers are stuck at $50k/year, and how to grow past it

September 21, 2026

Borrowing this one from the Print Design Podcast. If your design business hit some early growth and then flatlined, this one's for you. In this solo episode I get into the three problems that quietly stall out most freelance designers, your work is invisible, you're underpaid, and clients vanish after one project, and why none of it is a talent problem. It's a visibility problem, and print is the fix for all three. In this episode The three problems keeping freelance designers stuck Why a pl...

Episode 293 - Zuza Hicks - Brand Designer - Nicely Made Studio - Sacramento CA

April 08, 2026

Sacramento-based brand identity designer Zuza Hicks of Nicely Made Studio joins Dave for a conversation about personality-driven branding, the unexpected lessons of leading a creative team, and why print is having a serious moment. Zuza brings a genuinely unique perspective to design. She's largely self-taught, holds a master's degree in social policy and journalism, and draws on her life between the US and Poland to create deeply symbolic, character-driven brand work. In this episode: -How t...

Episode 292 - Kytana Le - Illustrator + Designer at Visa

February 25, 2025

Episode Summary: In this episode of The Quickie Podcast, we chat with Vietnamese American illustrator and design generalist Kytana Le. She shares her journey from growing up in a small bayou town in Louisiana to working at Visa, blending her love for illustration, branding, and UX design. We dive into how a high school art class and a Tumblr rabbit hole led her to pursue design, her obsession with print and tactile design, and the challenges of working in a corporate design environment. Kytan...

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