Ep 1: DIY-OK with Callum Preston

A LOT TO SAY PODCAST

Callum Preston is a designer, painter, illustrator, set designer, street artist, signwriter, builder, videographer, maker and do-er. Callum continues to explore the definition of a freelance creative as he takes on projects of all sizes and mediums.

His repertoire spans sold-out solo art shows to designs for restaurants, fashion brands, The Block, Marvel Comics, Collingwood Football Club, Converse, and some of the biggest touring bands in the world. Self taught, Callum prides himself on travelling the less conventional, do it yourself path when it comes to building a creative career.

A few points in the chit-chat:

1. Analogue Childhood, Digital Adulthood
2. Gathering experiences through freedom of expression
3. Embracing DIY and counter-culture
4. Music Industry creative projects and future opportunities created
5. Carving out your own niche - highly creative installations and activations
6. Current and future state of the creative Industries in Aus

Notes and Links:

• Alex Lahey - Best of Luck Club
• Back to the Future exhibition
• Callum Preston Creative Mornings
• Callum Preston’s Milk Bar
• Can't Do Tomorrow
• Deez Nuts
• Everything is Borrowed
• Her Nightmare
• KSR Art Bar, Rialto
• Luca Brasi
• Parkway Drive
• Poison City Records
• RONE
• Sea Shepherd Sam Simon
• Silo Art Trail
• Something for Kate
• Stencil Revolution website
• The Arthouse
• The Block
• 'The Good Old Days' - Andy Bernard
• The Shack Sessions
• Tones And I ‘Ur So F**king Cool’

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