Jake Rudin: Creative Career Progress

Mehmet Aydın Baytaş -

Jake is currently Senior Manager of Digital Technologies at Adidas, where he’s leading teams in Computational Design, Digital Technologies, and Pattern Engineering. He’a also the co-founder of Out of Architecture: a career consulting firm that helps architects and designers find work that fulfills them.

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Conversation Topics

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:52 The power of the breakup
  • 06:10 Non-design jobs for designers
  • 09:53 Jake's first book: writing and publishing
  • 18:30 Leading innovation at Adidas
  • 25:11 Getting hired: how to grab the manager's attention
  • 31:23 How to collab with Adidas
  • 39:00 Excelling at multi-disciplinary work
  • 47:00 Advice from Jake: greatest hits
  • 52:50 Book recommendations
  • 53:54 Design object recommendations
  • 55:13 Jake's design secrets
  • 56:30 What's next & how to find Jake