Creative Slash

Ep. 051 – Paul Lukes – Graffiti, Getting Clean, and Why Ugly Design Converts

August 28, 2026·1h 30m
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Designers spend their careers trying to make things beautiful. So what do you do when your boss tears up the polished sign you made for the tip jar, tells you to redo it in crayon, and the ugly one makes more money? In this episode, we talk with designer, artist, and reformed graffiti writer Paul Lukes about the road from painting the streets of San Francisco to a career built on craft, community, and a published ethics page. It is a conversation about addiction and recovery, about what graff...

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