089 - Reece Bennett On Creativity & Careers The Process

Reece Bennett is an assistant teacher at Humber College, teaching Visual Communications and sketching. From a small town in the middle of Lake Winnipeg, Reece's professional design career spans the consumer electronics industry into high quality furniture. With a wicked beard and incredible sketching style, Reece has spent the last ten years of his life in the industrial design industry and his entire life spent in the creative fields.
We chat about giving honest feedback to students, details of working in the furniture design industry and Reece's next steps in his career.

On today's episode of "The Process" we discuss:


Adopting a teaching mindset
Encouragement through honesty
Focus on improving the design
Reece's start in ID
First year vibes
Being bold in the workplace
Working in the furniture design industry
Reece's big goal
Animation sketching vs design sketching
Grades really don't matter!
Science fiction & Dune
Backpacking in Asia
Staying creative
Growing a beard
The answer is always practice

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Reece Bennett //

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reece-bennett-ba300247/?originalSubdomain=ca

Website: https://www.reecebennettdesign.com/

Instagram: @reeceb

Zak Watson //

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zak-watson-48618517a/

Behance: https://www.behance.net/zakwatson

Dylan Torraville //

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylantorraville/

Website: https://dylantorraville.com

Portfolio: https://dylanjtorraville.myportfolio.com/

Behance: https://www.behance.net/dylantorraville

Send us an email to hi.theprocesspodcast@gmail.com if you have any questions or want to reach out!

The Process is a podcast created by Toronto based industrial designers Dylan Torraville and Zak Watson. Dyl and Zak are picking up microphones to chat about their experiences in design school,  personal projects and navigating the creative process. Oh yeah, and there will be some sweet interviews with other designers and friends too.