Bad Idea Social Club

Bad Idea Social Club It’s for growers and showers and failures and friends—an interview-style podcast with new episodes every week and blog features sprinkled about.

Freelance graphic designer and independent artist, Aaron McCall, has set out to collect stories, insights, and ideas from artists, writers, photographers, musicians, and a whole mess of other wildly talented creatives. Bad Idea Social Club is a collection of honest conversations, without judgment or filters, about creativity and life and processes and f*cking up and all that sh*t.

Tanya is the creative director at Stout Collective and started out illustrating forum avatars for fake gold—a tale as ol...
10/14/2026

Tanya is the creative director at Stout Collective and started out illustrating forum avatars for fake gold—a tale as old as time. She’s animated, funny, and she completely blew up the Don Draper creative director mold. Look at her now.

S8 Ep5, Tanya Avoundjian: Curly-Haired Critter is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and pretty much wherever else you get your podcasts.

Supported by:
CreativeMornings Grand Rapids
Merchants and Makers | West MI

10/13/2026

Client rejection is a gift. A humbling and maddening gift.

🎧 S8 Ep5, Tanya Avoundjian: Curly-Haired Critter is out now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube and pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.

Supported by:
CreativeMornings Grand Rapids
Merchants and Makers | West MI

Seems like an appropriate time to share some images from Riley Dompierre’s GHOST series. She talks all about it in this ...
10/11/2026

Seems like an appropriate time to share some images from Riley Dompierre’s GHOST series. She talks all about it in this week’s episode 👻

🎧S8 Ep4, Riley Dompierre: Wanderlust is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and pretty much wherever else you get your podcasts.

10/08/2026

Domesticated creativity just feels wrong. Keep that s**t wild!

🎧 S8 Ep4, Riley Dompierre: Wanderlust is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.

Supported by:
CreativeMornings Grand Rapids
Merchants and Makers | West MI

10/07/2026

We’ve gathered 13 of the coolest, most unhinged poster designers we could find to throw one horrifically killer poster show.

Midnight Society: A Poster Show opens Saturday, October 17 at Coopersville Brewing Company from 5-10pm. And maybe the coolest part, all 13 artists are working from the same brief and interpreting the direction based on their own horrors and experiences.

Participating artists:
Jill Deiters - Jill Deiters
Jon Eslinger
Craig Horky - Craig Horky
Christina Hutton - Christina Hutton
Aaron McCall - Aaron McCall
Derek Mohr - Derek Mohr: Designer+Developer
Jack Muldowney - Studio Malt
Nick Notier -Studio Malter
Sara Pulver Nick Nortierr
Jacob RosenbuSara PulverRosenburg
Colin RusJacob Rosenburgssell
Susan ThompColin RussellDaniel Wiltshire - Susanl Wiltshire

AaaaaanDaniel Wiltshirewer Ryan Wasson (Ryan Wasson) are releasingRyan Wassonw black IPA for the show also named “Midnight Society.” And heard a rumor about Chef Kyle Murray working up some elevated “midnight snacks.”

And Bryan Esler Photo will be Bryan Esler Photoph the whole night.

Riley is a photographer, sewist, and creative nomad who shut down her photo business and never looked back. She mostly k...
10/07/2026

Riley is a photographer, sewist, and creative nomad who shut down her photo business and never looked back. She mostly keeps her creativity for herself, sews of her own clothes, and goes where the wind takes her. And she knows creativity is nothing without the human behind it. We agree.

Swipe through a few quotes that stuck with us.

🎧 S8 Ep4, Riley Dompierre: Wanderlust is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.

10/06/2026

You can’t have creativity without humanity. You just can’t.

🎧 S8 Ep4, Riley Dompierre: Wanderlust is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.

Supported by:
CreativeMornings Grand Rapids
Merchants and Makers | West MI

10/02/2026

“I lied my way through my confidence.” Oof.

🎧 S8 Ep3, David Martinez: Fast Forward to the Good Part is out now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. And like a million other places too, but those are the ones.

Supported by:
CreativeMornings Grand Rapids
Merchants and Makers | West MI

Dave spent a decade away from the drums. But now he’s in two bands— Second Body and TIDALS —fresh off tour, and more him...
09/30/2026

Dave spent a decade away from the drums. But now he’s in two bands— Second Body and TIDALS —fresh off tour, and more himself than he’s ever been. We 🩶 Dave.

Swipe through a few quotes that stuck with us.

🎧S8 Ep3, David Martinez: Fast Forward to the Good Part is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.

09/29/2026

Dave and Aaron are friends and old bandmates from like 20 years ago and yeah, okay, we’re getting older and maybe our bodies know it, but today, after ten years away from his kit, David Miles-Cole Martinez is back in his element with TIDALS and Second Body

Dude’s probably more in tune with himself and his drums than ever. And sorry about the “in tune” pun.

🎧 S8 Ep3, David Martinez: Fast Forward to the Good Part is out now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.

Supported by:
CreativeMornings Grand Rapids
Merchants and Makers | West MI

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