Design Observer

Jonathan Jackson and Avalon Garrick: Time for Change 11.09.2023 20:40 ↓

Jonathan Jackson, Creative Director at We Should Do It All, and design student Avalon Garrick talk about the joys and challenges of finding their footing as creatives, the experience of being the only Black person in the room, and how the design field can be made more diverse.

Eddie Opara and Tyriq Moore: How Do You Build Knowledge as a Designer? 11.09.2023 17:52 ↓

Gaining knowledge is a crucial, ongoing part of every designer’s career. In this episode, Pentagram partner Eddie Opara, mentor to student Tyriq Moore, talks with him about how learning and discovering new things is at the heart of being a good designer.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Grace Bonney 07.11.2016 34:27 ↓

Debbie talks to Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney about her new book on women entrepreneurs and makers and about the necessity and difficulty of change.

Episode 43: The End Is Near 20.10.2016 36:25 ↓

Campaign fatigue, advertising and viral video, voting technology, intellectualism in the design community, the art of David Pease, the 1986 Mets

Episode 42: Doors and Perception 29.09.2016 30:04 ↓

Bathroom signs, MBA students, Mozilla and open logo design, The Commissar Vanishes, Masters of Sex

Episode 41: Memory Loss 15.09.2016 24:34 ↓

The Napalm Girl photo on Facebook, 9/11 out of context, Apple stores and the iPhone 7 launch, the Doctor Strangelove trailer, Wiener-Dog, Pantsuit

Episode 40: Food for Thought 26.08.2016 28:48 ↓

Samsung v. Apple, the International Style v. capitalism, Sausage Party, mozzarella sticks

Episode 39: Passing the Torch 11.08.2016 33:34 ↓

Olympics, cursive handwriting, NASA’s secret art studio, gun sales on Facebook, #firstsevenjobs

Episode 38: Rough Sketches 28.07.2016 27:56 ↓

Trump-Pence, Clinton-Kaine, Black Lives Matter, The Four Seasons, mapping the brain, the video essay

Episode 37: Border Control 29.06.2016 30:05 ↓

Brexit, borders, naming, Fiorello La Guardia and his airport, robot dogs, though leadership, Snapfax

Episode 36: A Seat at the Table 15.06.2016 31:14 ↓

Why we need a U.S. Secretary of Design, Yale SOM, Emma Cline’s The Girls, Holy Hell, Silicon Valley

Episode 35: Mind-Body Problems 01.06.2016 31:14 ↓

Nutrition Facts, Mark Bittman’s food rating system, colon cancer screening, Time Well Spent, Peter Arno, Flat File

Episode 34: The Good, the Flat, and the Ugly 19.05.2016 33:00 ↓

Instagram, rainbows, digital brutalism, Design: The Invention of Desire, the Freewrite,

Episode 33: Prisons and Paradise 04.05.2016 31:07 ↓

Solitary confinement, virtual reality, design thinking for prisoners, Drew Hodges’s Broadway, The Paradise, Prince’s unpronounceable glyph

Episode 32: High Maintenance 20.04.2016 29:00 ↓

Innovators and maintainers, Bernie and Hillary, mapping and infrastructure, algorithms and Rembrandt

Episode 31: Shapes and Japes 07.04.2016 25:21 ↓

Corporate design humor from Mic Drop to bland.ly, photoviz, remembering Zaha Hadid

Episode 30: Crowd Control 30.03.2016 25:11 ↓

Tay, Boaty McBoatface, New Zealand, emoji, and the madness of crowds

Episode 29: The Logosphere 10.03.2016 31:26 ↓

The Met and the logosphere, designing with scientists, the Clinton-Sanders graphics race

Episode 28: Magic on the Page 24.02.2016 25:03 ↓

Matthias Buchinger, Beyonce, Mohawk Superfine at 70, Umberto Eco

Episode 27: Guys and Dolls 03.02.2016 28:14 ↓

Barbie and Rey, food and design, 30 years after the Challenger disaster

Taste: The Future of Food + Design 29.01.2016 6:14 ↓

Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand talk about Taste: a one-day symposium on design + food, and why you need to be there!

Episode 26: Working-Class Heroes 21.01.2016 32:07 ↓

British art schools, Bowie, Alan Rickman, the State of the Union, cannabis chocolate

Episode 25: State of the Chart 07.01.2016 23:59 ↓

Data visualization, The Big Short

Episode 24: Hello 23.12.2015 24:57 ↓

Michael finally gets an iPhone, the Pirelli calendar, Amy Schumer, design and TV

Episode 23: Brute Force 25.11.2015 28:35 ↓

Behind the Bataclan, pigeon pathologists, Design Thinking at IBM, the Coke bottle at 100, Michael Gross