The Angry Designer Podcast Interview
All Hail the Queen! Craft Beer Label & Brand Specialist Jen Borror
I had the awesome pleasure of meeting the gangsters from the Angry Designer Podcast at Creative South 2024. What a HOOT they were! I remember approaching them at the mixer thinking these dudes look like designers. Hats, beards, thick black glasses. My people! Tune into the podcast below as we chat about beer label design, branding and the struggles of being a woman owned business and sole-entrepreneur.
Tune in to be inspired by Jen’s journey and her relentless pursuit of design excellence in the craft beer industry.
Meet Massimo and Shawn from the Angry Designer Podcast. We met at Creative South 2024 and are officially drinking buddies. Cheers to beers and bourbon!
Tune into the podcast as we discuss:
- The importance of niching down & how it can lead to rewarding and specialized work
- How to balance creativity with commercial demands in the graphic design industry
- Insights into the process of beer label design, from initial sketches to final product
- The challenges and triumphs of freelancing, including dealing with difficult clients
- The importance of hand-drawn illustrations in a digital age
- The unique relationship between a brewer’s craft and a designer’s vision
Meet Jen Borror founder, creative director and illustrator at Hoot Design Studio.
The Angry Designer Podcast featuring solo and guest episodes where graphic designers, from freelancers to in-house professionals, overcome imposter syndrome, burnout, and client management, offering insights on getting more clients, making money, mastering design principles, branding, marketing, business operations, building a stellar graphic design portfolio, creating impactful social media graphics, and navigating a successful graphic design career in UX and beyond.
All Hail the Queen! Craft Beer Label & Brand Specialist Jen Borror. From winning brewery design competitions to reigning as the QUEEN of beer label design, Jen Borror reveals how a small favour for a friend ignited her passion for beer label design. This week on The Angry Designer podcast, we had the pleasure of having a conversation with a graphic designer who niched into an industry traditionally dominated by dudes - and she's killing it.
