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We’ve talked about growing pains and only saw fit to close out the season with a guest - Jane (lead designer of the recently launched app by SSENSE): we chat about her experience with the app design process: we launch multiple perspectives on compromising creativity for mainstream success and we share out resolutions for the new year. Until next time. Mentioned in this castSSENSE - https://www.ssense.com/en-caJanes Medium ArticlesPart I - Designing With Ambiguity, Part I: Establishing An Experience And Design PrinciplesIn the face of ambiguity, we stopped using our gut to make decisions…Part II - Designing With Ambiguity, Part II: Design Doing, Not ThinkingPrototyping often (aka. think by doing).Selling Out Is Usually A Matter of Buying In - https://medium.com/by-33cc77/selling-out-is-usually-more-a-matter-of-buying-in-2c483b490908Where to find us on the wide wide interwebsAkoyi Socials: Instagram - https://instagram.com/akoyi?igshid=18nnx2ddvqf28Twitter - https://twitter.com/hearakoyinowSoundCloud - https://m.soundcloud.com/akoyiDangerhan Socials:Instagram - https://instagram.com/dangerhan?igshid=ip7rnancob4pYou can find my Twitter. Jane’s Socials:Instagram - https://instagram.com/jjanelee?igshid=1j377xlf8eybrLinkedIn - 

In this episode you’ll wonder if you’ve ever heard me talk so much.  @dangerhan cons me into talking about:  my journey into music thus far: my fav places to shop in  The Notorious YEG and as always our weekly favs. Kendrick Element photographer references: https://www.thefader.com/2017/06/27/kendrick-lamar-element-video-gordon-parks-photosThe Gordon Parks Foundation: http://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/ANNMS : https://annmsshop.com/Nowhere Fast : https://shop.nowherefaststudio.com/Foosh : https://www.foosh.ca/

In this episode @dangerhan and I discuss our fav underrated brands and why we LOVE them and think you should pay attention to them. The influence of money: ghosting everyone for #myart : drinking and socializing (If you’ve dealt with drinking and need a trigger warning please use the skip as needed from 39:00Kafka on the shore spoilers from 10:42 - 12:01 IQ84 Spoilers and General Murakami discussion from 12:01 - 16:43 Mentioned in this podcast:Phlemuns: http://www.phlemuns.com/Saint Heron Shop: http://store.saintheron.com/Vivienne Westwood: https://www.viviennewestwood.com/en/our-approach/The Fore: https://www.thefore.com/The Fore collaboration mentioned as earrings was with Ken Samudio - https://www.instagram.com/theforeseries/p/BibRFDMnNk5/. Anglan: http://anglan.co.kr/Story MFG:  https://www.storymfg.com/Sasquatchfabrix: http://sasquatchfabrix.com/

We are back...We talk about why you need to get rid of yes men - especially if they’re the homies: Dante only has 9 levels of hell: Gregorian chants and is Eric giving up fashion design to A&R????? Mentioned on this episode: Hazbin Hotel - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlmswo0S0e0Sincerely Tommy - https://sincerelytommy.com/

Listen to this now. Listen to this when you’re avoiding your family next week (we will encourage you to spend time with them) . We talk consumerism (what a downer!): our favourite alcohols (let us know yours! Top 2 and not number 2 only please): answer some superb questions from y’all and finally share our top 🖐🏿 songs of the decade!As always thank you for listening! Feel free to comment or dm any questions! Or if we answer a question and you’d like to continue the dialogue *Tinashe voice* ‘Hit me up’Mentioned in this episode:**On Workers + Capitalism (smh) Resistance**Every Form of Peasant Resistance - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066158608438289Capital in the 21st Century - https://www.amazon.ca/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X**General Mentions**Naina More - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q90zq1-heR4&list=RDq90zq1-heR4&start_radio=1Jordan's Thrift - (Insta)https://www.instagram.com/bilocelhi/?igshid=2bxwl2orqlrh : (Grailed) https://www.grailed.com/bilocelhiMarie Yat - https://www.marieyat.com/

Episode 4 features Matthew as a guest. Matt is a social worker whose focus is on community based senior care through the Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice. The organization works to help Chinese seniors who face barriers towards access of key services - such as healthcare. In addition they have an intergenerational, multilingual  (mandarin and Cantonese) drop in space. You can find a link to learn more about the organizations current focus and fundraiser below. In this episode the boys teach me Surrey slang. We talk food in America, why no one should talk to me about capitalism anymore, FKA Twigs, hipsterism ™️ and more.....

This is pretend episode three where we talk about Jesus Is King: forgiveness: personal scents as intent: why I want A$AP Rocky's creative direction powers: using Karl Marx to curve people and more.......Mentioned in this podcastApricity - https://soundcloud.com/soymilk69/sets/apricityRobin D.G. Kelley on power, love and capitalism - https://youtu.be/fP-2F9MXjRE

With special guest GEpisode 2 deals with a quick review of SS2020, why @akoyi isn't about convo's with collaborators in the dm's and more importantly why you can't speak french to an english speaker in Paris.

You put a fashion designer and a musician into a room and they start a podcast.Episode 1 is a smorgasbord including how we became fashion thots; thoughts on Yohji and why heels aren't the only weapon in your closet.