Welcome to our fifteenth podcast episode! We're so happy you're here ✨This is a podcast from the perspective of two designers, Kiya and Rach 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻 Kiya is a Junior Designer and Rach is a Senior Designer/Art Director running her own business.

Kiya is back to work after (nearly) a weeks holiday - which Rach is VERY happy about 😆 Rach’ describes how last week was a low point in her design career - which may have been much better had she had an Apple M1 chip in her comp 🤔 can anyone relate to render probs? 🤣

They give an update on the office build (hint: it’s nearly finished, how exciting!) and all the furniture they are due to buy and have bought, ready for the move! Rach did a huge Ikea trip at the weekend and bought the little office kitchen - they discuss how everything is black and beautiful 🖤

Kiya talks about her fantastic holiday to Amsterdam and the cool hotel she stayed in (hello, new working space!) She visited lots of museums and saw everything from Van Gogh paintings, to Anne Franks house and digital NFT’s 🤩 The girls discuss copywriting rules and this impacts the art world and brands in general.

Both reminisce on how much they enjoyed art at school, Kiya talks about her style preference being mixed media and ink whilst Rach was more of a classic oil painter. Rach talks about one of her proudest achievements to date - we feel a new Insta bio coming on 😉

After seeing Anne Frank, the girls discuss how this hits harder with what is currently happening in Ukraine 💙💛 They both discuss the feeling of being helpless and how they can help. Rach talks about a friend of a friend, (Karolina) who is helping refugees cross the border from Ukraine to Poland. Each trip for her costs close to £68 and currently, through fundraising they have nearly raised £1000.

If you would like to hear more about Karalina’s story and updates, follow Rach’s friends instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sineado_yoga/

Her fund-raising link can be found here: paypal.me/sineadoconnoryoga

If you relate to any of this, or need any advice or support Rach and Kiya are very open to chatting! Drop us a note in the DM's and they would love to help you were they can https://www.instagram.com/designerduo.studio/ 📱✨