Design Matters with Debbie Millman: 2009-2012
By Design Observer
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Podcast Description
Design Matters with Debbie Millman is a thought-provoking internet podcast, which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators.
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Steven Heller | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Steven Heller discusses the big ideas that have changed graphic design – including the UPC code, teen magazines, white space and the pointed finger. | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2 |
Ken Carbone | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Ken Carbone discusses meeting his design heros, his celebrated sketchbooks and journals and what he really thinks about his relationship with his corporate clients. | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Randy J. Hunt | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Etsy creative director Randy J. Hunt discusses landing a job with Milton Glaser, his record label and the challenges and approaches of managing a brand as diverse as Etsy. | 20 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Khoi Vinh | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Khoi Vinh discusses starting a studio in late 2001, his greatest accomplishments as design director at NYTimes.com, what he likes and doesn't about comic books, spending spring break in college setting type and what he feels is the proper way to think about the online relationship of publisher and consumer. | 13 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Roman Mars | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, radio producer Roman Mars discusses going to college at 15 to study science and then leaving science for radio, the connection between 'zines and radio, how to tell a good story and the reason he named his show "99% Invisible". | 6 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Flansburgh | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, John Flansburgh discusses being the son of a Moderist architect, letraset, thinking that Anna Wintour smells nice, designing They Might Be Giants album covers and of course, making music. | 30 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maria Popova | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Maria Popova discusses growing up in Bulgaria, her grandmother following her google alerts, problems with public space in Los Angeles, the evolution of Brainpicker, curation and pattern recognition and inventing the curator's code. | 9 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jen Bekman | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Jen Bekman discusses managing a BBS in the early days of the internet, her first email exchange, being a 'zine queen, starting 20x200 and the importance of everyone owning art. | 2 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karl Heiselman | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Wolff Olins CEO Karl Heiselman discusses the controversial London 2012 logo, designing the culture of Wolff Olins and his views on branding and popularity. | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Biber | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, James Biber discusses growing up in a house with a womb chair, visual illiteracy, the global impact of Waffle House design and designing the Museum of Sex. | 17 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cheryl Heller | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Cheryl Heller discusses collaboration, innovation, her new MFA program at SVA and why the word "brand" is like leather pants. | 10 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Erik Spiekermann | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Erik Spiekermann discusses why numbers are harder to design than letters, finding his print shop burned to the ground and why he's trying to get out of work. | 3 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Venezky | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Martin Venezky discusses his job as a coupon designer and his journey to becoming one of the design innovators of our time. | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Mendelsund | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Peter Mendelsund discusses how he became a book designer and his fear of the Kindle and iPad. | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Gibbs | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Andrew Gibbs discusses his love of packaging, the role brands play in people's lives, his blog the Dieline. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Rea | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Brian Rea discusses the value of being rejected, art directing for The New York Times and his fascination with UFOs. | 18 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Hockenberry | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, John Hockenberry discusses his morning NPR news show The Takeaway, journalism in the age of social-media, Steve Jobs and sex. | 11 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design Army | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Jake and Pum Lefebure of Design Army discuss how they met, the importance of sketching and keeping their firm small. | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Margaret Roach | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Margaret Roach discusses her career with Martha Stewart and her love of gardening. | 28 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linda Tischler | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Linda Tischler discusses failing her new year's resolutions, why the word “design” turns off business perfessionals and her new book. | 14 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dori Tunstall | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Dori Tunstall discusses branding through the lens of a Design Anthropologist. | 7 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Bogusky and John Bielenberg | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Alex Bogusky and John Bielenberg discuss branding, global warming, and impact entrepreneurs. | 30 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jessica Hische | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Jessica Hische discusses her attachment to the internet, the differences between being a letterer and a type designer and working for Louise Fili. | 23 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Arad | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Michael Arad, discusses the World Trade Center Memorial. | 16 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Angus Hyland | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Angus Hyland discusses the peace sign, Deutsche Bank, the play button, the London Olympics and his new book. | 8 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alissa Walker | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Alissa Walker discusses, her experience in advertising and how it led her to writing, her love affair with LA, walking, biking, giving up driving and of course, gelato. | 13 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jennifer Morla | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, meet artist and designer Jennifer Morla... | 22 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Frykholm, Herman Miller | Steve Frykholm has worked for Herman Miller for the last 40 years. In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, he discusses the ups and downs in his long career with the National Design Award-winning furniture company. | 15 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grace Bonney | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Grace Bonney discusses being a Phish follower, shaking off the cute and Design*Sponge scholarship program. | 8 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heather B. Armstrong | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Heather Armstrong discusses reconciling with her family after writing about them on her blog, taking photos of her dog Chuck and tweeting about her broken Maytag washing machine. | 1 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dominique Browning | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Dominique Browning discusses her tenure as Editor in Chief at House & Garden, her recent book, Slow Love, and the effects of love on a stuffed animal. | 25 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Ford | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Jonathan Ford discusses going on eighteen job interviews before being hired by Michael Peters, his belief that a good idea cannot come from a computer and the importance of doing work that is truthful. | 11 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eddie Opara | In this audio with Debbie Millman, Eddie Opara discusses being educated by Jesuits, creating the Brooklyn Museum brand at 2x4, and working at Pentagram. | 4 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alina Wheeler | In this podcast with Debbie Millman, Alina Wheeler discusses branding, strategic imagination, Gap logo fiasco, clients, and her new book, co-authored with Joel Katz, Brand Atlas. | 25 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gail Anderson | In this podcast with Debbie Millman, Gail Anderson discusses making little magazines as a child, having Paula Scher as a teacher, her first job at Vintage, working at Rolling Stone for fifteen years and what the next chapter in her life holds. | 23 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kate Betts | In this podcast with Debbie Millman, Kate Betts discusses what it means for First Lady Michelle Obama to be a style icon, the visual image she projects, her sculpted arms, and the inevitable comparisons and differences between her and Jackie Kennedy. | 11 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rob Walker | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Rob Walker discusses his interest in death and how our digital records remain online, and the wish to brand the idea of "be happy for what you have." | 4 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Victore | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, James Victore discusses his book, putting his opinion in the work, practicing cold-calls and the difference between God-jobs and money jobs. | 17 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alexandra Lange and Jane Thompson | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Alexandra Lange and Jane Thompson discuss their new book, the store Design Research, creating the power of imagination, Marimekko, Sir Lady Jane and Benjamin Thompson. | 10 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Heller | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Steven Heller discusses his new book Pop: How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture, blogging from the bathroom, working with Patti Smith, Paul Rand's tombstone and, of course, writing. | 3 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alexander Isley | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Alexander Isley discusses his mom, learning presentation from Tibor Kalman, the effort it takes to make things seem effortless and believing that people are inherently good. | 19 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kate Bingaman-Burt | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Kate Bingaman-Burt discusses Obsessive Consumption, the designer as reporter, being in debt, feeling useful and making something everyday. | 12 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marian Bantjes | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Marian Bantjes discusses her new book, I Wonder, hanging out and blogging on Speak Up, ornament, secrets, cipher, coded text and causing pain to type purists. | 5 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ralph Caplan | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Ralph Caplan discusses the difference between making things right as a designer as opposed to making things nice, the civil rights movement and the responsibility of the designer. | 29 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tina Roth Eisenberg | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Tina Roth Eisenberg discusses her blog, sharing her life with her readers, things that make her smile, four-letter names, crowd sourcing, living and working in Brooklyn, Creative Mornings and the beauty found in ordinary things. | 22 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Moggridge | In this podcast with Debbie Millman, Bill Moggridge discusses, the future of the laptop, technology, human-centered design and plans for future work at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt. | 15 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eric Baker | In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Eric Baker discusses working with Gorden Parks, living in New York City, the soul of a brand, Paul Rand and working for himself. | 8 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Doyle | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Stephen Doyle discusses working for Tibor Kalman, renting his soul to the devil, fear of failure, magazines and working with his hands. | 24 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Massimo Vignelli | Vignelli Celebration: Season premiere of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, a podcast interview with Massimo Vignelli. | 17 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stefan Sagmeister | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Stefan Sagmeister discusses his year away from his New York-based design practice, his personal time in Bali, as well as discussing his new, in-progress documentary film, Happiness. | 19 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Brown | In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Tim Brown reviews his career at IDEO, explores the impact of design processes (drawing and storytelling), as well as discussing his new book, Change By Design. | 12 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Drenttel and Julie Lasky | William Drenttel, editorial director of Design Observer, and Julie Lasky, editor of Change Observer, discuss the new Design Observer, Change Observer, the state of online media, and the end of print. | 17 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 52 Episodes |
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