Painter, Designer, and Co-Founder of MorcosKey–Jon Key on Creating Work You Care About and Balancing Your Passions

Update: 2020-04-07

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Jon Key is an artist, designer, educator, and co-founder of the design studio MorcosKey. On this episode we revisit Jon's childhood, growing in Alabama where he found his passion for being creative. Jon was always looking for ways to combine his creativity and passion for theatre as he went through school and college at RISD. We go into detail about finding opportunities to create work that you really care about as well as starting his own design studio with his partners Wael Morcos.

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Painter, Designer, and Co-Founder of MorcosKey–Jon Key on Creating Work You Care About and Balancing Your Passions

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Painter, Designer, and Co-Founder of MorcosKey–Jon Key on Creating Work You Care About and Balancing Your Passions