Please note: This podcast was recorded before Aries changed their name.

Aries began their career while still a student at Camberwell College of Art, landing a string of professional commissions largely for musicians, artists and promoters they met at parties and gigs. It was a perfect storm of a vibrant local music scene and the dawn of digital platforms like Myspace that led Aries led to work on a host of, in their words, “weird internet jobs for very little money”, as well as posters bursting with the hand-drawn typography that soon became Aries’s trademark.

This early life experience was seminal and by 2012 Aries had founded Studio Moross, and was propelled into graphic design stardom. Today many of the studio’s clients are still in the music world, from Sam Smith and Disclosure to Simian Mobile Disco and the Spice Girls, for whom the studio recently created all the branding and art direction for Spice World 2019 tour – a dream project.

Aries tells us about feeling a responsibility to open up spaces for creatives from minority backgrounds, as well as calling out unfair working practices both publicly or behind the scenes by sliding into people’s DMs. “I can’t feel good about design in a capitalist world if I’m not trying to change the system and make it better,” Aries says. Tune in for tips about money management, when to work for free, finding your voice and being honest about what you know.

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Please note: This podcast was recorded before Aries changed their name.