Design Matters with Debbie Millman Archive: 2005-2009
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Design Matters with Debbie Millman is an opinionated and provocative internet talk radio show. The show combines a stimulating point of view about graphic design, branding and cultural anthropology. In a business world dependent on change, design is one of the few differentiators left.
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Gary Hustwit | Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker who has produced six feature documentaries, including Helvetica. | 7/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Milton Glaser | An interview with Milton Glaser — graphic designer, illustrator, Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and 2010 recipient of the National Medal of Arts. | 10/12/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Virginia Postrel | Debbie Millman interviews Virginia Postrel, author of The Substance of Style, and a contributing writer for The New York Times business section. | 8/25/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicholas Blechman | Nicholas Blechman, former Art Director of The New York Times Op-Ed page, now runs Knickerbocker. | 8/25/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Zolli | Andrew Zolli — founder of Z + Partners, a foresight think-tank — discusses the future of mass culture with Debbie Millman. | 8/25/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Eggers | McSweeney’s Founder Dave Eggars is also the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity! and What Is The What. | 5/22/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dee Dee Gordon | Dee Dee Gordon is a renowned youth culture expert whose research has been featured in numerous media outlets including The New York Times Magazine. | 5/15/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Allan Chochinov | On this episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, Debbie speaks with Allan Chochinov, editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website. | 5/1/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Pink | Dan Pink is an entrepreneur, speaker and the author of three groundbreaking books on the changing dimensions of the workplace. | 4/10/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Formosa | Daniel Formosa, a founder of Smart Design, is a member of the design team that developed IBM’s first personal computer, the OXO Good Grips kitchen tools and XM Satellite Radio. | 4/3/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gong Szeto | Former principal of the interaction design firm io360, Gong Szeto is Director of design and product design at Peak6 Investments. | 3/20/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patrick Coyne | An interview with Patrick Coyne, editor of Communication Arts, with special guests Milton Glaser and Cheryl Heller. | 2/27/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Natalia Ilyin | Natalia Ilyin is a design critic and educator and ithe author of two books — Blonde Like Me, and Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist Design in Our Time. | 2/20/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joe Duffy + Nate Voss | The Reflex Blue's Nate Voss interviews Joe Duffy about his work for some of the most highly admired companies in the world, including Coca-Cola, Toyota and Sony. | 2/13/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Heller + Lita Talerico | Debbie Millman interviews Lita Talarico and Steven Heller, co-founders of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts. | 2/6/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neville Brody | An interview with former Face Magazine art director Neville Brody who has been at the forefront of design for more than two decades. | 1/16/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jessica Helfand | Jessica Helfand discusses growing up in a family of collectors, her love of visual biography and why history should be more important to designers than it seems to be. | 1/9/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spoken Word Broadcast | All spoken word show featuring poems, prose and a short story. | 4/24/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robynne Raye + Michael Straussberger | Robynne Raye and Michael Straussberger are graphic designers and co-founders of the acclaimed Seattle-based firm Modern Dog. | 4/18/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Hodgson | Michael Hodgson is a DJ and a designer and is co-founder of the design firm Ph.D. | 4/11/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Abbott Miller | An interview with Abbott Miller, Pentagram partner and an award-winning graphic designer and writer. Miller is also the art director of 2wice magazine. | 3/28/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laurie Rosenwald | On this episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, Debbie talks with graphic designer, artist and actress Laurie Rosenwald. | 3/14/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gordon Hull | An all-music show with DJ and designer Gordon Hull, co-founder of the firm Surface to Air. | 3/7/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stefan Bucher | An interview with graphic designer, illustrator and Daily Monster creator Stefan Bucher. | 2/29/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Petrula Vrontikis | Petrula Vrontikis is a graphic designer and educator at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. | 2/22/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonah Lehrer | Jonah Lehrer, editor-at-large for Seed Magazine, is also a contributor to NPR’s RadioLab. He is the author of Proust was a Neuroscientist. | 2/15/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vaughan Oliver | Legendary graphic designer Vaughan Oliver is also an artist and the author of several books, including Exhibition/Exposition and This Rimy River. | 2/8/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kurt Andersen | Kurt Andersen is an award-winning journalist, author and host of the Peabody-winning public radio program, Studio 360. | 2/1/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eric Kandel | Nobel prize winner Eric Kandel is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University. | 1/25/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chip Kidd | Book designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd is also the author of several books including The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners: A Novel. | 1/18/2008 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shepard Fairey | Designer and illustrator Shepard Fairey is the author of Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey and Shepard Fairey: Post No Bills. | 6/29/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bad Boys of Design IV | Designers Marc Alt, Mike Essl, Alberto Rigau and others. | 6/15/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Josh Liberson + Ethan Trask | Josh Liberson and Ethan Trask are designers and the founders of the firm Helicopter. | 6/8/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alan Dye | An interview with former Kate Spade Design Director Alan Dye who is currently Creative Director at Apple. | 6/1/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan Wilker + Hjalti Karlsson | Jan Wilker and Hjalti Karlsson are partners in karlssonwilker and the authors of Tell Me Why. | 5/25/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alice Twemlow | British-born Alice Twemlow is a design critic and the author of What Is Graphic Design For? She also chairs the Design Criticism department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. | 5/18/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Luke Hayman | Previously Design Director at I.D. Magazine, Brill’s Content,Travel + Leisure, and New York Magazine, Luke Hayman is now a partner in the New York office of Pentagram. | 5/11/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janet Froelich | An interview with Janet Froelich, former Creative Director at The New York Times Magazine, who is currently Design Director at Real Simple. | 4/20/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barbara Kruger | An interview with American artist Barbara Kruger. | 4/13/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeffrey Keyton | An interview with Jeffrey Keyton, Senior Vice Ppresident, On-Air Design and Off-Air Creative, MTV. | 4/6/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Luba Lukova | An interview with award-winning illustrator Luba Lukova, whose work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress and Bibliotheque Nationale in France. | 3/30/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maira Kalman | An interview with the remarkable Maira Kalman — the closest thing we in the United States have to a National Treasure. | 3/23/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Not David Carson | A special interview about David Carson, featuring guest vocalist Simon Lince. | 3/16/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jakob Trollback | On this episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, an interview with designer and filmmaker Jakob Trollback — who is also a DJ. | 3/9/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrea Deszo | An interview with designer, artist and educator Andrea Deszo. | 3/2/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Minda Gralnek | On this episode, Debbie Millman interviews Minda Gralnek, Executive Vice President for Creative Services at the Target Corporation. | 2/23/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marty Neumeier | Marty Neumeier is a brand consultant and the author of Brand Gap, Zag and The Brand Dictionary. | 2/16/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elliott Earls | On this episode, Debbie interviews designer and performance artist Elliott Earls, designer-in residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art. | 2/9/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doyald Young | Master typographer Doyald Young is also the author of The Art of the Letter, Logotypes, and Letterforms: Handlettered Logotypes and Other Typographic Considerations. | 2/2/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Designers, Writers + Magazines | A conversation with Print’s Joyce Rutter Kaye; Dwell’s Michela Abrahms; Barbara DeWilde of House Beautiful and Laetitia Wolff of Surface. | 1/26/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ze Frank | Debbie Millman interviews Ze Frank — writer, designer and host of The Ze Frank Show. | 1/19/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seth Godin | Seth Godin is the author of Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars. | 1/12/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Malcolm Gladwell + Joyce Gladwell | An interview with Malcolm Gladwell, author of The New York Times bestseller Outliers and Joyce Gladwell, author of Brown Face. | 1/5/2007 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Maeda | A disussion with former MIT Media Lab Director John Maeda, who is currently the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design. | 6/30/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Sikora, Thomas R. Wright + Charlie Lazor | Steve Sikora, Thomas R. Wright and Charlie Lazo discuss the finer points of pre-fab houses and modern design. | 6/23/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stanley Hainsworth | On this episode, Debbie Millman interviews Stanley Hainsworth, former Design Director at Starbucks and the founder of Tether in Seattle. | 6/16/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paola Antonelli | An interview with Paola Antonelli, curator in the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. | 6/9/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ann Willoughby | Debbie Millman interviews Ann Willoughby, president and creative director of Willoughby Design Group, a brand, innovation and identity design firm she founded in 1978. | 6/2/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Lunderman | On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman interviews William Lunderman, Vice President for Global Design at the Colgate-Palmolive Company. | 5/26/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Todd Pruzan + Sam Potts | Todd Pruzan is an editor and writer. Sam Potts is designer and writer. | 5/19/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gael Towey | On this episode, Debbie Millman talks to Gael Towey — the editor and founding Creative Director at Martha Stewart Living. | 5/12/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bad Boys of Design III | This group of Bad Boy designers are: Josh Chen, Manuel Toscano, Alan Dye and Layne Braunstein. | 5/5/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Collins | Brian Collins led the brand and innovation division of Ogilvy and Mather for nearly a decade, before founding his own firm — Collins — in 2007. | 4/28/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ed Fella | Ed Fella is an artist, graphic designer and educator whose work has had a critical influence on contemporary typography in the United States and in Europe. | 4/21/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jessica Helfand + William Drenttel | Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel work in partnership at Winterhouse and are co-founders, with Michael Bierut and Rick Poynor, of Design Observer. | 4/14/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Heller + Veronique Vienne | A conversation with writer Véronique Vienne, writer and prolific design historian Steven Heller. | 4/7/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Art Chantry | Art Chantry works and lives in Seattle where his ideas and personal style branded the look of popular culture, not only in the northwest and its bohemian underground, but also in the pop and alternative culture of the last few decades. | 3/31/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Buchanan-Smith | Peter Buchanan-Smith, founder of Buchanan-Smith LLC, is the author of Speck and The Wilco Book. | 3/24/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kenneth FitzGerald | Artist, educator and writer Kenneth FitzGerald is currently Associate Professor of Art and Graduate Program Director in the art department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. | 3/17/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christoph Niemann | An interview with German-born designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann, who claims to have only one trick: “sitting in front of a white piece of paper and thinking, staring and drawing until my head hurts.” | 3/10/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grant McCracken | Grant McCracken is the author of Culture and Consumption I, Plenitude, Big Hair, Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning and Brand Management, The Long Interview, Flock and Flow, and Transforming Selves. | 3/3/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carin Goldberg | Carin Goldberg was a staff designer at CBS Records and Atlantic Records before establishing her own firm, Carin Goldberg Design, in 1982. | 2/24/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hillman Curtis | Hillman Curtis has designed motion graphic spots for clients such as MTV, Rolling Stone and Adobe and his innovative design solutions have garnered him numerous awards all over the world. | 2/17/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Sahre | Graphic designer, illustrator and author Paul Sahre established his own design company in 1997. His office is part design studio and part silkscreen lab: he designs book covers and prints posters. | 2/10/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Grant | Bill Grant founded the Atlanta-based Grant Design Collaborative in 1996 and has worked with clients including Adobe Systems, Georgia-Pacific Papers and Steelcase, among many others. | 2/3/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Hoefler + Tobias Frere-Jones | Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones are partners in their own eponymous type foundry where they developing and digitize original typefaces. | 1/27/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ellen Lupton | An interview with Ellen Lupton — writer, educator, designer and a Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. | 1/20/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rick Valicenti | Rick Valicenti, founder of the Chicago design firm Thirst and author of the book Emotion As Promotion, talks to Debbie Millman. | 1/13/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chip Kidd | On this episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, Debbie talks to Chip Kidd, award-winning book designer, musician and author. | 1/6/2006 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emily Oberman | An interview with Emily Oberman, formerly senior designer at M&Co and now partner, with Bonnie Siegler, in the New York design firm Number Seventeen. | 8/12/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bad Boys of Design II | A new group of (very) bad boys: Rodrigo Corral, Marc English, Tan Le, Bennett Peji, Felix Sockwell and John Zapolski | 8/5/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paula Scher | Paula Scher — arguably the most successful and influential woman working in design today — began her graphic design career as a record cover Art Director in the 1970s. She has been a Pentagram partner since 1991. | 7/15/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stefan Sagmeister | A candid and revealing discussion with design innovator Stefan Sagmeister, whose work has been hailed as “intense, cunning and evocative.” | 6/29/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Geller, Alastair Gordon + Jake Gorst | Andrew Geller, Alastair Gordon and Jake Gorst talk about Gorst's new documentary Leisurama. | 6/24/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Barringer | Debbie Millman interviews Winterhouse Writing Award winner David Barringer, who discusses his new book and his views on the state of contemporary graphic design. | 6/17/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design Blogs: The Good, the Bad and the Nasty | Rick Poynor, Armin Vit, Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Jen Beckman, Adrian Hanft and Bennett Holzworth discuss the finer points of design blogging. | 6/15/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eames Demetrios | Debbie Millman interviews Eames Demetrios — the grandson of Charles and Ray Eames — a multimedia designer, exhibit designer, lecturer, filmmaker and author. | 6/10/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sean Adams + Noreen Morioka | Los Angeles-based graphic designers Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka work with a range of clients including MTV, VH1, Sundance and Nickelodeon. | 6/3/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Live From Las Vegas with Rossi Ralenkotter | Debbie Millman interviews Rossi Ralenkotter — President of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority — and Emmy Award nominated Set Designer Susan Benjamin. | 4/22/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brand Consulting | A discussion about branding, design and cultural anthropology with leading practitioners in each discipline. | 4/15/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Bierut | Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. and worked for a decade at Vignelli Associates before joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990. | 4/8/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marian Bantjes, Alexander Gelman + Michael Surtees | An interview with Marian Bantjes, Alexander Gelman and Michael Surtees of DesignNotes. | 4/1/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grant McCracken, Part 2 | Grant McCracken PhD, author and a research affiliate at MIT. | 3/18/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grant McCracken, Part 1 | Grant McCracken PhD, is an author and a research affiliate at MIT. | 3/11/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Heller | Debbie Millman interviews Steven Heller — art director, educator and the author of more than 100 books on design, design history and contemporary culture. | 3/4/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bad Boys of Design | Designers Michael Ian Kaye, Mark Kingsley, Petter Ringbom, James Victore and Armin Vit. | 3/1/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cheryl Swanson | Cheryl Swanson, founder of Toniq, applies her background in anthropology and psychology to the visual task of branding. | 2/11/2005 | Free | View In iTunes |
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