Interviews

Matteo Bologna is the founder and principal of Mucca Design. His multidisciplinary background in architecture, graphic design, illustration and typography facilitated his early business successes and inspired his decision to create a New York branding and design agency. As creative director, he oversees and inspires every project with energy, intellect, and a quick wit. Matteo is the Vice President of the Type Directors Club, and is frequently asked to lecture about branding and typography around the world.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Matteo Bologna

Amanda Michel is the Open editor at the Guardian US. She previously worked at ProPublica.org and the Huffington Post.

Amy Webb is CEO of Webbmedia Group, a digital strategy agency that focuses on near-term emerging technology trends. She and her team help Webbmedia Group’s clients prepare for future business disruption using research, ideation and a vast knowledge of digital media. 

Spark Camp is a next-generation convener. They engineer productive collisions of talented people to tackle provocative questions, develop meaningful relationships and lead ideas into action; facilitate important conversations that propel society forward; and they form an enduring and diverse network of innovative thinkers set on bringing about positive change in their worlds.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Amanda Michel & Amy Webb, co-founders of Spark Camp

Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and has been widely anthologized. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, The New School and Wesleyan University, and she is co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Her new book, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, was published on October 1.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Dani Shapiro

A conversation with cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz, author of On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/12/on-looking-eleven-walks-with-expert-eyes/). 

Transcript and details here: http://brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/27/on-looking-alexandra-horowitz-interview/

Recorded for The Dish Book Club: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/category/book-club/

Produced by Chas Danner / The Dish

TRANSCRIPT / DETAILS

On Looking: Maria Popova in conversation with Alexandra Horowitz

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Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings (http://www.brainpickings.org), an inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness and curiosity, bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in — until you are. She has also written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Nieman Journalism Lab, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. 

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Maria discusses curation, creativity as pattern-recognition, growing up in Bulgaria, and her grandmother following her Google Alerts.

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