This week, we caught up with Maurice Cherry to talk about design podcasting, building an agency from scratch, and the current state of diversity in design. Maurice is a designer, podcaster, creative strategist, agency founder, writer, speaker, and much more.

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In this week's Sidebar, we ask Maurice some bonus questions at the end of the interview:

• What is the most under-rated skill for designers?
• What is the most over-rated skill for designers?
• Do you find that your success thus far is mostly the result of luck or hard work?

Follow-up:

• Manny asked if we've seen the accessibility settings for The Last of Us Part 2. Marshall has, and these settings are truly incredible.
  • Watch this video of Steve Saylor's accessibility impressions.

Interview:

Maurice Cherry is a designer, podcaster, creative strategist, agency founder, writer, speaker, and so much more. He most recently worked as a Senior Creative Strategist at Glitch. Follow Maurice on Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn.

Links from the interview:

• Revision Path is a podcast interviewing black designers and technologists. It is in the freaking Smithsonian!
• Maurice's projects include:
  • Black Weblog Awards
  • 28 Days of the Web
  • The Year of Tea
  • Recognize
• Watch Where Are the Black Designers
• An Antiracist Reading List
• Umbra Magazine
• Creative Reaction Lab
• Project Osmosis
• The Inneract Project helps underrepresented youth to explore and learn about design, created by Muarice Woods.
• Maurice was on Design Details: 13: Eating Horse (feat. Maurice Woods) and 123: Live @ Github (feat. Carolyn Zhang, Heather Phillips, Mo Woods & Diana Mounter)
• On the Grid is now retired, but was good.
• Black art and design podcasts:
  • Layers of Design Podcast
  • Studio Noize Podcast
  • UnderRepresented Podcast
  • Unruled Podcast
  • Two Black Nerds

Cool Things:

• Brian shared the Hidden Brain Podcast.
  • Listen to The Air We Breathe and Playing Favorites as a good jumping-off point.
  • Shoutout to Gabriel Valdivia for the rec!
• Marshall shared The Last of us Part 2, played by Christopher Odd. Watch the playlist to immerse yourself, Marshall-style.
• Maurice shared two things for you this week:
  • Bayside High and Drunk, a podcast that reviews Saved by the Bell while high and drunk.
  • butter.atl is a savvy and creative Instagram that is using the platform to creatively showcase what Atlanta is all about. The creator, Brandon Butler was also on Revision Path Episode 7

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