Design Observer
The Design Of Business | The Business of Design
The Design of Business | The Business of Design explores how design shapes, and is shaped by, the world around us. Hosted by Ellen McGirt, the podcast features conversations with visionary leaders from a wide range of industries, from architecture and technology to journalism and retail. Together, they examine creative practices, challenge conventional thinking, and explore how design drives business, innovation, and social change. In Season 12 of DB|BD, host Ellen McGirt explores Designing for the Unknown —how visionary designers, architects, and thinkers navigate uncertainty, from climate ad...
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Nov 11, 2025
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Episodes
S9E10: Quemuel Arroyo 21.09.2021 36:32
Quemuel Arroyo is the first ever chief accessibility officer at the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.
S9E9: Deborah Willis 07.09.2021 38:34
Deborah Willis is an artist, curator, and a professor at New York University. Her most recent book is The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.
S9E8: Jan Diehm 24.08.2021 33:37
Jan Diehm is a journalist at Polygraph and The Pudding.
S9E7: Lotenna Enwonwu 10.08.2021 31:10
Lotenna Enwonwu is the global executive creative director at Coursera.
Connect 4: Design Bridges 03.08.2021 20:40
Check out the first episode of Connect 4: Design Bridges, a new show about mentorship from Design Observer and Connect 4: Networking for Equality in Design. On this episode, creative director Jonathan Jackson talks with Avalon Garrick, a design student at Mercy College. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the Connect 4: Design Bridges feed wherever you get your podcasts or check them out at h...
S9E6: Elizabeth Hargrave 20.07.2021 36:46
Elizabeth Hargrave is an American game designer whose games include Wingspan, Mariposas, and Tussie Mussie.
S9E5: Lucia Lucas 06.07.2021 34:59
Lucia Lucas is a baritone who made her U.S. debut in 2019 at Tulsa Opera as Don Giovanni.
S9E4: Na Kim 22.06.2021 33:17
Na Kim is an associate creative director at the book publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
S9E3: Astra Taylor 08.06.2021 39:36
Astra Taylor is an artist, activist, and founder of the Rolling Jubilee and the Debt Collective. Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions.
S9E2: Melanie Keen 25.05.2021 37:46
Melanie Keen is the director of Wellcome Collection.
S9E01: Ellen Mirojnick 11.05.2021 40:01
Emmy-award winner Ellen Mirojnick has designed film costumes since the 1980s and most recently is the lead costume designer for the Netflix series Bridgerton.
S8E12: Nikil Saval 29.12.2020 32:43
Nikil Saval is a Pennsylvania state senator and the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.
S8E11: Allissa Richardson 22.12.2020 35:56
Allissa V. Richardson is a journalist and an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.
S8E10: Rosanne Somerson 15.12.2020 31:18
Rosanne Somerson is president of the Rhode Island School of Design.
S8E9: Kat Vellos 08.12.2020 26:50
Kat Vellos is a UX designer, facilitator, and connection coach.
S8E8: Nina Cooke John 01.12.2020 24:07
Nina Cooke John is founder and principal of Studio Cooke John, and also teaches at Parsons School of Design.
S8E7: Maurice Woods 24.11.2020 31:23
Maurice Woods is a principal designer at Microsoft and the founder and executive director of Inneract Project.
S8E6: Lisa Nakamura 17.11.2020 23:56
Lisa Nakamura is the founding director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan.
S8E5: Kelly Walters 10.11.2020 25:47
Kelly Walters is the founder of the multidisciplinary studio Bright Polka Dot and an assistant professor of communications design at Parsons School of Design.
S8E4: Ari Melenciano 03.11.2020 27:52
Ari Melenciano is an artist, creative technologist, educator, and the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation.
S8E3: Maxwell Anderson 27.10.2020 30:23
Maxwell Anderson is the president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership.
S8E2: Deanna Van Buren 20.10.2020 31:47
Deanna Van Buren is the co-founder of Designing Justice Designing Spaces, a nonprofit working to end mass incarceration by building an alternative infrastructure.
S8E1: Maurice Cherry 13.10.2020 30:37
Maurice Cherry is the host of Revision Path and the principal and creative director at Lunch.
S7E12: Janelle Monáe 14.01.2020 19:19
Janelle Monáe is a singer, songwriter, actor, and producer.
S7E11: Paola Antonelli 24.12.2019 26:28
Paola Antonelli is senior curator of the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art.
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