Managing self-doubt

Alison Garwood-Jones March 3, 2017

In Ep. 5, our last day with Mark Challen (*sniff*), Mark talks about:
• Rejecting academia and the fashion and design worlds in favour of work with more meaning and context
• Free time, the highs and lows of creative thinking, and managing self-doubt
• Restricting consumption of negative media (to protect your creativity)

Mark Challen is an illustrator, art and culture historian, and the creator and host of The Stylecooler Podcast on iTunes. Also look for his soon-to-be-launched website, StyleCooler.com.

Willful is the web series that tracks how artists and creative entrepreneurs work, thrive and survive. We interview one artist a week, then post five three-minute snack films from that interview on YouTube every day.

Thank you, Greg Garson and The Merchant Taps & Tavern. We see you buzzing around in the background!

#Drawing #Prismacolor #Art #Culture #History #Style #PopCulture #DesignHistory#StyleCooler#ArtistProject #Nostalgia #MustSeeTV #HouseAndHome #BarbraStreisand @amyrrosen @Rosensbuns #SelfDoubt #Negativity #Freelancer #Startup

Career Pivot: from VP to Illustrator

Alison Garwood-Jones March 2, 2017

If you are enjoying Mark Challen’s energy and pizzaz this week, watch today’s episode where he talks frankly about:
• Saving up his pennies for a career pivot
• Planning his start-up costs
• Becoming an illustrator for hire — first assignment: Barbra Streisand (no presh)

Mark is an illustrator, art and culture historian, and the creator and host of The Stylecooler Podcast on iTunes. Also look for his soon-to-be-launched website, StyleCooler.com.

Thank you, Greg Garson and The Merchant Taps & Tavern for offering us a fantastic stage. The tavern also has the best #Meatloaf in town. Better than your mother's.

#Drawing #Prismacolor #Art #Culture #History #Style #PopCulture #DesignHistory #StyleCooler #ArtistProject #Nostalgia #MustSeeTV #HouseAndHome #CareerPivot #StartUp #Financing #BarbraStreisand (cc. @amyrrosen, Rosen's Cinnamon Buns)

The art of surprise

Alison Garwood-Jones March 1, 2017

Up your Willfulness this week with Mark Challen. Mark is an illustrator, art and culture historian, and the creator and host of The Stylecooler Podcast on iTunes.. Also look for his soon-to-be-launched website, StyleCooler.com. In Ep. 3, Mark talks about:

• Surprising people and using their reaction as fuel

• His influences: The New Yorker, The New York Times, Jeopardy and Sesame Street

• Launching the Style Cooler Podcast (with Suzanne Dimma), and using his background as a spinning instructor to shape the episodes

Thank you, Greg Garson, for your hospitality at The Merchant Taps & Tavern.

#Drawing #Prismacolor #Art #Culture #History #Style #PopCulture #DesignHistory #StyleCooler #ArtistProject #Nostalgia #MustSeeTV #HouseAndHome #Podcasting #Wikipedia

Leaving your job ... now what?

Alison Garwood-Jones February 28, 2017

• How the world reveals itself to you after leaving your job
• Combatting feeling adrift by creating one thing day
• How creative ideas at birth are rarely perfect elevator pitches
• Creating Stylecooler.com, the Wikipedia of style (“Imagine if Wikipedia was fun!”)

Thank you, Greg Garson, for your hospitality at The Merchant Taps & Tavern.

I want to start my own company

Alison Garwood-Jones February 27, 2017

Mark Challen gets Willful this week. Mark is an illustrator, art and culture historian, and the creator and host of The Stylecooler Podcast on iTunes. Also look for his soon-to-be-launched website, StyleCooler.com. In Ep. 1, Mark talks about:
• His 18-year run at House and Home Media
• Answering the call that said, Own your own company
• Creating a new avenue to express our intense nostalgia for design history and pop culture

Thank you, Greg Garson, for your hospitality at The Merchant Taps & Tavern.