Dadwell & Co.

Dadwell & Co.

Dadwell & Co. is an independent media project at the intersection of creativity and fatherhood. The Dadwell Podcast shares stories about maker/artist/designer dads who are managing thriving creative practices while remaining present, engaged, kick-ass fathers. Each episode, Antonio García explores a different dad's creative practice, fathering philosophy, and practical tactics for navigating the stress, fatigue, resentment, wonder, pride, and joy of raising the creative bar while simultaneously raising small humans. Subscribe and learn more at dadwell.co

Episodes

S4 Ep3: Chris Rudd

September 24, 2021 • 58 mins
Chris Rudd is an activist, educator, and design leader. Built on his commitment to community organizing, social equity work, systems change, and youth development, Chris founded ChiByDesign, a Black-owned and people-of-color-led design firm in Chicago. In addition to leading ChiByDesign, Chris is also an Instructor and Lead of Community-led Design for the Chicago Design Lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of ...
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S4 Ep2: Johan Bävman

September 25, 2020 • 56 mins
Since devising his own independent photography curriculum in high school, Johan Bävman's passion for image making led him to the Nordic School of Photography, a coveted spot on the Moment Agency roster, and a full-time staff position in editorial photography with Sydsvenskan, one of Sweden's largest newspapers. Now 100% independent, Johan splits his time between client assignments, personal projects and gallery work. When he n...
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Reflections on COVID-19

March 21, 2020 • 8 mins
An 8-minute special episode on COVID-19. Antonio offers ideas, hope, and perspective for how parents can change their state, shift their thinking, and care for their families, communities and themselves.
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S4 Ep1: Justin Roberts

February 21, 2020 • 55 mins
Justin Roberts is truly one of the "all-stars" of the indie family music scene. For nearly 20 years, the three-time Grammy Nominee has been creating the soundtrack to families' lives—helping kids navigate the joys and sorrows of growing up while allowing parents to remember their own childhoods. Along with his band, The Not Ready for Naptime Players, Justin has traveled the globe, from Hong Kong to New York, and Miami to Seat...
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S3 Ep7: Season Three Recap

January 20, 2020 • 10 mins
A quick 10-minute recap of episodes 13–18 of Dadwell's third season. Antonio summarizes each episode with commentary and key takeaways.
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S3 Ep6: Tim Lapetino

December 20, 2019 • 65 mins
Tim Lapetino is a writer, geek culture historian, and award-winning graphic designer. In his 20-year career, Tim's consistently been drawn to design and the way it impacts our popular culture. He's obsessed with exploring and understanding the creative process and loves telling the stories of unheralded creative people who work beyond the spotlight. His best-selling design history book, Art of Atari, has sold more than 60,000...
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S3 Ep5: Matt Woodburn

December 6, 2019 • 59 mins
Matt Woodburn is co-founder and CEO of ESP Presents, where he manages event production, technical and creative direction, as well as brand activation for the company and its new venue space, Exchange312. Matt is a serial entrepreneur, event producer, connector and (self-described) social concierge, whose personal interests directly reflect his professional endeavors.

Matt is dad to his daughters: ages 8 and 9.
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S3 Ep4: Jeffrey Brown

November 22, 2019 • 48 mins
Jeffrey Brown is the Eisner Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Darth Vader and Son, the Jedi Academy middle grade series, and numerous other graphic novels for both adults and kids. Most recently, Jeffrey's been hard at work on the middle grade Lucy & Andy Neanderthal series, the picture book My Teacher Is A Robot, and a new Star Wars book, Rey and Pals. Jeffrey has an MFA from the School of the Art In...
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S3 Ep3: Jared Reeder

November 8, 2019 • 54 mins
Jared and I met in the advertising design school at the Atlanta College of Art almost 25 years ago. Today he runs Question Mark to Period, a marketing and design agency in Atlanta. He’s a larger-than-life personality, a globetrotting storyteller, a Taekwon-Do black belt and a Sunday school teacher. He's released five independent hip hop albums, founded a creative collective of renown black curators a decade before influencers ...
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S3 Ep2: Brad Bischoff

October 25, 2019 • 71 mins
Named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film," Brad Bischoff is an award-winning director whose work has been screened in major film festivals, staff-picked on The Atlantic, Vimeo, Short of the Week, and YouTube. He is an alumni of the Telluride Film Festival student symposium (‘07) and Columbia College Chicago (‘09) and just wrapped on what is to be his debut feature film, The Grasshopper.

Brad...
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S3 Ep1: Jesse Hora

October 11, 2019 • 59 mins
Jesse Hora is an illustrator, muralist, designer and partner at MAKE & Co., a small but mighty husband-and-wife studio specializing in branding, creative direction, graphic design and mural design. He and designer, Abigail Wynne focus on making beautiful and insightful work for premium and authentic brands. If you've spent anytime in a cool Chicago spot, there's a good chance, you've enjoyed a MAKE & Co. mural.
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S2 Ep7: Season Two Recap

September 27, 2019 • 23 mins
A personal reflection on Season Two from the show's founder and host, Antonio García.
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S2 Ep6: Max Wastler

September 13, 2019 • 66 mins
Max Wastler is Senior Director of Brand & Reputation for Maritz, the company that effectively created the incentives industry. From the gold watch, to travel and loyalty programs, Maritz focuses on the science and art of people and potential.

Prior to his work at Maritz, Max was the founder of Rivver Co., a branding and marketing consultancy based in St. Louis, Missouri where he contributed ideas, designs, photog...
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S2 Ep5: Michael Kiser

August 30, 2019 • 84 mins
Michael Kiser is an innovation strategist in the world of beer and craft beverage. His studio and editorial outlet, Good Beer Hunting, is both the leading voice and instigator in the beer world—analyzing the market, pushing the story, and launching new brands. Michael was named one of Imbibe Magazine's "75 People & Places To Watch" in 2015. He has an MFA in poetry from the School of the Art Institute and lives in the Roger...
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S2 Ep4: John Jennings

August 23, 2019 • 73 mins
John Jennings is a Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.

His work centers around intersectional narratives regarding identity politics and popular media. John is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center's Black Comic B...
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S2 Ep3: Charlie Smith

August 16, 2019 • 75 mins
Charlie Smith is my best friend. We've known each other for almost a quarter century. And our lives have run in an uncanny parallel ever since we met.

Additionally (and in no particular order) Charlie is a director, designer and educator.

Charlie works in innovation consulting, combining motion design and video with human-centered methodologies to capture, interpret, and curate qualitative design research in...
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S2 Ep2: Matt Roan

August 9, 2019 • 69 mins
Matt is a DJ, musician and entrepreneur.

As a DJ, Matt's played all over the world—from Miami to Milan—and performed twice at Lollapalooza. As a musician, he's helped record numerous records with bands Written in the Sand, INNKEEPERS, The 1900s, and P1XEL & The Silver Sphinx. And as an entrepreneur and business owner, he and friend, Emilio Abadia (aka E-Six), co-founded Crossfader King and helped countless young D...
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S2 Ep1: George Aye

August 2, 2019 • 89 mins
George co-founded Greater Good Studio with his wife and partner, Sara, and a commitment to advancing equity with design. Before that, he spent seven years at global innovation firm, IDEO, and was, for a brief time, the first human-centered designer at the Chicago Transit Authority.

Since founding Greater Good, George has worked across complex social issues such as criminal justice, civic engagement, public education,...
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S1 Ep7: Season One Recap

July 26, 2019 • 21 mins
A quick 20-minute recap of the first six episodes of Dadwell's inaugural season. Antonio summarizes each episode with commentary and key takeaways.
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S1 Ep6: Edwin Lee

July 19, 2019 • 69 mins
Edwin Lee is Design Lead at WeWork Labs.

For over a decade, Edwin has worked alongside strategists, user researchers, and fellow designers to help companies develop new products ideas and place people at the center of the design process.

He co-founded Ghost Lab—an independent design studio combining design thinking and design craft—to prototype early-stage product designs and brand ...
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