240 - Finding Your Voice — with James Victore

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

James Victore is a designer and fine artist, who’s work is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His stunning, expressive typography has helped to define his work, and is born out of the passion that he feels for the act of creating. He’s always known what he wanted to do, and has spent years whittling away the perfection so many of us suffer from to deliver work that is authentic, vulnerable, and bold. Because personality and humanity are the most important parts of his work. In this episode, Chris talks to James about his life and work - From being given paper, pencil, and old design annuals as a child, to leaving school because he had a vision for his life and work, to a career with an ultimate goal of “being James Victore” and being paid for it. James and Chris talk life, work, and the push and pull between commercialism and artistry, and, more importantly, why James feels you don’t have to separate the two. Interested in James's course on creativity and finding your voice? Head on over to Your Work Is A Gift to learn more, and use code DO50 for $50 off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, we're all born wildly creative.
0:02.2	The guy on the roof across the street fixing someone's roof.
0:05.8	Wildly creative guy could be a genius, could be a painter,
0:08.9	wakes up in the morning with brilliant ideas,
0:11.2	but just doesn't follow through on them because of these pre-recorded voice.
0:14.8	No, you've got to go to work. No, you've got a family. No, you have to do this. No, you have to, right?
0:20.0	And those voices come from, originally from family. I'm going to do. My next guest is James Victoria and you may know of him from several different touch points.
0:53.0	Maybe you've seen one of his works in the Museum of Modern Art,
0:56.0	maybe two of them you've seen.
0:58.0	Maybe you've seen these big, bold expressive phrases and ideas, these concepts distilled into some words and you see as handiwork.
1:06.7	His hand is in the work and maybe you've seen that or maybe you've seen him speaking on a stage
1:12.2	is where I met you for the first time in person.
1:15.6	I've met you online before James.
1:17.9	But there's some things that I guess surprised me about you.
1:21.4	And I'm just full disclosure. I don't know that much about you. I've known about you and I'm just full disclosure I don't know that much about you I've known
1:24.8	about your work for a really long time I purchase your books before we even knew that
1:29.2	we should be talking to each other and I see you on stage, very natural, warm, charismatic, and I'm like, something
1:37.4	is not, I don't, I just, maybe it's my prejudice that I just thought a guy who writes the way you do
1:45.3	using the language that you do fact perfection I hope I said that right because I'm
1:49.6	scared to say that you know is that I think of you as like really anti establishment a
1:56.3	rebel but I think there's rebel but a rebel with a heart. There is this
2:00.8	humanity that emanates from you.
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