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Creative Figures

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 97

Creative Figures is a long-form interview show about how creative people actually live and work. One guest per episode — artists, designers, illustrators, writers, filmmakers, makers of every kind — and no hurry: the practice behind the portfolio, the decisions behind the career, the parts that never make the highlight reel. Between conversations, occasional solo episodes on craft and creative independence. Filmed in full — watch at creativefigures.fm, or listen wherever you get your shows. Hosted by Alen Kapetanovic. Formerly CAPTN OffScript.

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#71
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#57
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04/09/2026
#38
🇺🇸 USA - design
03/09/2026
#89

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E96 - Second Take: Andy J. Pizza, "Cultivate Yourself, Don't Overcome Yourself"

Season 2

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 • Duration 06:26

I asked Andy how long it took him to start liking himself the way he is. He did not give me a number. He said it is something he has to constantly return to and refresh.

This is Second Take, a short format on the show. One idea, one guest, lifted out of a longer conversation. You do not need to have heard the original.

Around 25, Andy started to realise he probably has ADHD. His first reaction was not relief, it was grief, because this was not something he could hustle his way out of. Not long after, he found what he now calls the neurodivergent lens. Brains are different, not necessarily worse or better, and they perform differently in different contexts. Which brought him to a thought that changed things: maybe he is not broken, but in this society, this is a disability.

From there he started trying to cultivate himself rather than overcome himself, and he explains why that shift matters particularly for artists. He also takes the Joseph Campbell line about the cave you fear to enter and argues it is usually read wrong.

He does not present any of this as finished. He calls loving himself a continual battle.

Full conversation with Andy: https://creativefigures.fm/s02-e30-andy-j-pizza-adhd-self-worth/

Find Andy here: https://www.andyjpizza.com/

https://www.creativepeptalk.com/

https://www.instagram.com/andyjpizza/

https://www.andyjpizza.com/rso

Find me here: https://creativefigures.fm

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creativefigures.fm/

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E95 — Second Take: Gemma O'Brien, "What Flow Actually Feels Like"

Season 2

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 07:30

Gemma O'Brien describes flow as a forgetting of yourself. Fully absorbed, at one with the work, no sense of time passing.

Then the conversation turns to boredom, and that half is the sharper one.

This is Second Take, a short format on the show. One idea, one guest, lifted out of a longer conversation. You do not need to have heard the original.

Gemma talks about why flow arrives by surprise rather than on demand, the difference between being absorbed and being zoned out, and why filling in a mural outline does not count. She contrasts it with scrolling, which also makes time disappear but leaves you without any sense of agency or control.

She is also open about the parts of her job that bore her. Admin, client emails, the middle phase of a project that is all small tweaks and colour changes. A few years ago she resisted all of it, on the logic that this was supposed to be her passion so it should all be fun. She does not think that any more, and what she says instead is the part worth hearing.

Full conversation with Gemma: https://captnoffscript.com/s02-e35-gemma-obrien-bored-of-herself/

Find Gemma here:

Website: https://www.gemmaobrien.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrseaves101

Find me here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/captnoffscript

Website: https://captnoffscript.com/

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E94 - Second Take: Mat Voyce, "I Hated Motion Design"

Season 2

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 • Duration 07:03

Mat Voyce makes motion work for Nike, Pepsi and Disney+. He also tried animation at university, hated it, and decided he would never do it again.

This is Second Take, a new short format on the show. One idea, one guest, lifted out of a longer conversation. You do not need to have heard the original.

Mat got one A across eleven GCSEs. It was graphic design. He dropped out of AS levels because the school would not keep him on for two subjects. He went to art college, did nothing but design for two years, and left with a distinction and student of the year. Then he got to university, dropped back to the bottom of the pack, and sat the animation module he still shows in talks as the thing he swore off.

He also talks about the big brand names arriving, and the imposter syndrome that came with them and never really left.

Full conversation with Mat: https://captnoffscript.com/s02-e08-mat-voyce-on-anxiety-creativity-and-finding-your-thing/

Find Mat here:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/matvoyce

Website: https://www.matvoyce.tv/

Find me here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/captnoffscript

Website: https://captnoffscript.com/

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Bonus 007 - Simon Flöter: His Grandfather's Love Letters & What He'd Make if Money Didn't Matter

Season 2

Friday, August 14, 2026 • Duration 04:18

This is the seventh Captn OffScript bonus, and the last one of Season 2. After a main episode spent in the trenches, I asked Simon Flöter one question that flips it all upside down: if you woke up tomorrow with complete financial stability, never worrying about money again, what would you work on?

It went to newsletter subscribers first as a private YouTube link. Today it's available here too.

His first answer: he'd finish things. And then he told me about the letters. His father found a bundle his grandfather wrote to his grandmother, from 1930s Germany onwards, love letters mixed with the small facts of daily life. Simon barely knew him. His dream is to turn them into what he calls an online timepiece: the letters sorted so they read like a book, searchable, with the old words and the history behind each moment explained as you read. Two people in love, talking to each other across the darkest of decades, with the human side of it, in his words, kind of beautiful. Also on the list: fusing his design, code and illustration into something that doesn't exist yet, a zine with friends, and the video game he's always wanted to make.

In this conversation we talked about:

What he'd work on if money stopped mattering
His grandfather's love letters from 1930s Germany
The online timepiece he dreams of building from them
Fusing design, code and illustration into something new
A zine with friends, and the video game he's carried for years

The main episode this bonus extends: S02/E38 — Simon Flöter on Life in the Trenches & Not Making Decisions From Fear https://captnoffscript.com/s02-e38-simon-floter-life-in-the-trenches

Find Simon here:

Design: https://floter.design/
Illustration: https://floter.ink/

S02/E38 - Simon Flöter on Life in the Trenches & Not Making Decisions From Fear

Season 2 · Episode 38

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 • Duration 57:19

For the final episode of Season 2, I didn't want a victory lap. Simon Flöter is a German illustrator, designer and developer living in Amsterdam, and he told me early on: this is not a success story. This is from the trenches.

His commercial illustration work vanished this year, and he suspects AI swallowed it. Money got extremely tight. He just landed a job that should carry him through the rest of the year. And through all of it, he kept drawing, the way he has since he was a kid tracing Batman comics and getting rejected from every art school he applied to. We talked about the trenches most designers are actually in right now, why the anger at AI is really anger at corporate greed, and his advice that gives this episode its title: never make decisions from fear.

In this episode:

Growing up in Munich, where nobody said the word artist
Tracing Batman comics and Playboy pages to learn anatomy
Getting rejected from every art school, and drawing anyway
Germany vs the Netherlands: who asks for your diploma
The year the illustration jobs vanished
His Zwarte Piet website, and why traditions can change
Why coding feels like a puzzle, and what AI took from it
"We can do this now, but is it good? Do we have to?"
Don't decide from fear, and separate yourself from your work
The poster he made for his partner Tracy

Find Simon here:

Design: https://floter.design/
Illustration: https://floter.ink/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floter.ink
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/floter/

Find me here:

Website: https://captnoffscript.com

Bonus 006 - Halli Thorleifsson: Rebuilding Yourself Brick by Brick

Season 2

Friday, July 24, 2026 • Duration 07:08

This is the sixth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. In Halli Thorleifsson's main episode we covered everything he's built: the agency he sold to Twitter and rebuilt, the almost 2,000 wheelchair ramps, the tax he chose to pay. This is the conversation about what he's been rebuilding underneath it all, himself, in his words, brick by brick.

It went to newsletter subscribers first as a private YouTube link. Today it's available here too.

When Halli stopped drinking, he stopped the numbing but never went looking for what he'd been numbing. It took more than twenty years to come back to it. The hard things in his life, his disease, losing his mother young, had each gone into a box he never looked into. A survival technique that worked as a kid, and quietly stopped working as an adult. So he opened the boxes: two to three years of therapy, physical and mental, and, gradually and with help, letting the numbness lift after two decades. He's honest that nothing is fixed, that he's holding himself together mostly, and that he's better equipped than he's ever been. This is his path, not a template, and he shares it with an honesty very few people manage.

In this conversation we talked about:

Why he needs many things to work on, and what happens when he doesn't
Rebuilding yourself brick by brick
The boxes he packed away as a kid and never looked into
Two to three years of therapy, physical and mental
Learning to feel everything again, slowly and with help

Timestamps: No chapters for this bonus.

The main episode this bonus extends: S02/E37 — Halli Thorleifsson on Building Ueno Twice & Designing Things People Actually Use https://captnoffscript.com/s02-e37-halli-thorleifsson-building-ueno-twice

Find Halli here:

Website: https://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com/
Ueno:

Bonus 005 — Teresa Ferreira: Whose Voice Is That? Making Peace with Imposter Syndrome

Season 2

Friday, July 17, 2026 • Duration 07:42

This is the fifth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Teresa Ferreira and I recorded her main episode, we got into imposter syndrome and self-worth, and it was honest enough that I kept it back for this.

It went to newsletter subscribers first as a private YouTube link. Today it's available here too.

Teresa's first point is the most reassuring one: imposter syndrome doesn't go away. Not with success, not with experience. You just get better at spotting it. Her tool for catching it is a question I've been repeating ever since, whose voice is that? Because the critical voice is almost never yours. It's usually something someone said to you growing up that you've disproved a hundred times since. We also got into why creatives tie their whole self-worth to their work, her brilliant line that nobody who looks after trees feels worthless when one doesn't grow, and the thing I admitted out loud: I check my stats most mornings before I've done anything else. The numbers don't measure you. They never did.

In this conversation we talked about:

Why imposter syndrome never goes away
"Whose voice is that?" and how to catch it
Why creatives tie their self-worth to their work
Why your followers and earnings don't measure your value
How the morning metrics check quietly steals your worth

Timestamps: No chapters for this bonus.

The main episode this bonus extends: S02/E36 — Teresa Ferreira on Digging Her Way Into Design & Letting Go of the Perfect Day https://captnoffscript.com/s02-e36-teresa-ferreira-digging-into-design

Find Teresa here:

Website: https://www.ferrgoodstudio.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teresaferrgoodstudio/
LinkedIn:

S02/E37 - Halli Thorleifsson on Building Ueno Twice & Designing Things People Actually Use

Season 2 · Episode 37

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 53:06

Haraldur "Halli" Thorleifsson built the design agency Ueno from nothing, sold it to Twitter in 2021, and made a decision almost nobody makes: he structured the sale so he'd pay as much tax as possible, in Iceland, on purpose. Because Iceland is the country that gave a kid from a poor family with muscular dystrophy the chance to build something in the first place.

Then he started Ramp Up, which has put almost 2,000 wheelchair ramps across Iceland and is now expanding to Ukraine and Panama. And six or eight months ago, he rebooted Ueno to work on design in the AI era, because, in his words, he was bored, and his brain needs a problem to chew on. This was not the lightest conversation I've had on the show. It might be one of the most worth your time.

In this episode:

Why he chose to pay the tax everyone told him to avoid
Growing up poor with muscular dystrophy
Seeing the world as decisions people made, or didn't make
Ramp Up: from 100 ramps in Reykjavik to almost 2,000 across Iceland
The Musk moment, and what it taught him about perception vs reality
Building Ueno twice, and designing beyond the text box in the AI era
Getting humbled by users again and again, and going again anyway
What AI means for young designers entering the industry
The decision to stop drinking that changed everything
Kids, independence, and the sweater he can't unravel

Timestamps: 00:00 Meeting Halli Thorleifsson 00:40 Choosing to pay the tax in Iceland 06:40 Growing up poor with muscular dystrophy 09:29 Starting Ramp Up, and the world as decisions 12:06 Progress, and the case for impatience 14:52 The Musk moment, and perception vs reality 16:30 What he's building now, and getting humbled by users 18:59 Why he rebooted Ueno 24:05 What AI means for young designers 27:47 Sharing a studio with his artist wife 31:19 Getting sober, the decision that changed everything 33:13 New York, Tokyo and the cities that shaped him 35:03 What children force you to become 41:56 Creativity as building his own world 43:18 The sweater he can't unravel 45:54 What people should know about Iceland 49:15 Advice to eight-year-old Halli

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S02/E36 - Teresa Ferreira on Digging Her Way Into Design & Letting Go of the Perfect Day

Season 2 · Episode 36

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 • Duration 53:25

Some people walk a straight line into design. Teresa Ferreira dug her way in, through archaeology. She was born in Lisbon, spent part of her childhood in Macau, has lived in London for nineteen years, ran design at the Financial Times, and now runs her own studio, Ferrgood. When I said she felt like the whole world in one person, I wasn't exaggerating.

What I didn't expect was how much of this conversation would be about slowing down and letting go. Teresa was talked out of art as a kid, found her way back through archaeological illustration, burned out twice, and eventually learned to release the idea of a perfect day that had been quietly setting her up to fail every single evening.

In this episode:

Growing up between Lisbon, Macau and London
Being talked out of art, and finding design through archaeology
From museum graphics to head of design at the Financial Times
Building brands that last, and why she thinks in centuries
Leaving the safety of a big brand, and the self-doubt that came with it
Burning out twice, and what finally made her leave
The "perfect day" she chased that set her up to fail
Choosing a slower life, and getting good at saying no
The one drawing she'd keep if she had to delete everything else

Timestamps: 00:00 Meeting Teresa Ferreira 01:25 Growing up between Lisbon, Macau and London 04:04 The unlikely path from archaeology to design 10:35 Moving into graphic design and the Financial Times 13:00 Building brands that last 16:50 Self-doubt, and leaving the safety of big brands 19:28 Burning out, twice 25:03 The perfect balanced day 29:48 Letting go of perfectionism 33:43 Choosing a slower life 40:24 Journaling and daily practice 46:13 The drawing she'd keep, and advice to young Teresa

Find Teresa here:

Website: https://www.ferrgoodstudio.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teresaferrgoodstudio/

Bonus 004 - Gemma O'Brien: Making Peace with Burnout & Studying the Flow State

Season 2

Friday, July 3, 2026 • Duration 10:38

This is the fourth bonus episode of Captn OffScript. When Gemma O'Brien and I recorded her main episode, we got into burnout and flow, and I held that part back for this.

It went to newsletter subscribers first as a private YouTube link. Today it's available here too.

Gemma has talked about burnout in a lot of other interviews, so I didn't want to rehash it. What I wanted, as someone who leans towards overworking, was the thing underneath it: how she sees it coming, and what she actually does about it now. Her answer was calmer than I expected. She's made peace with burnout by treating it as information about her process rather than a catastrophe. She talks about a sweet spot, too much work and you burn out, too little and you're bored and understimulated, and about looking after the foundations: sleep, rest, human connection, nature. Then we got into flow, which she's now studying formally, reading neuroscience papers on the very thing she's spent her life inside. Her line on it: she's like a chef who cooks an incredible meal for someone else, then comes home and eats McDonald's.

In this conversation we talked about:

Why she's made peace with burnout
The sweet spot between overworking and being understimulated
The foundations that make high-level work sustainable
Studying flow state from the outside, and why that's tricky
Why flow matters more as AI makes everything convenient

Timestamps: [Awaiting confirmation]

The main episode this bonus extends: S02/E35 — Gemma O'Brien on Getting Bored of Herself & Refusing to Pick One Thing https://captnoffscript.com/s02-e35-gemma-obrien-bored-of-herself

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