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Design Matters

Background, context, and transcript highlights here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/06/andy-warhol-bbc-interview-edward-lucie-smith/

Andy Warhol BBC interview (1981)

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/interactionofcolor

Background, context, and discussion <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/16/interaction-of-color-josef-albers-50th-anniversary/">here</a>.

Josef Albers on education as discovery

Josef Albers and unlocking the magic of color

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/22/chip-kidd-go-book

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters

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Chip Kidd on kissing Neil Gaiman at Comic Con

The legendary graphic designer discusses his new primer for kids, GO: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/22/chip-kidd-go-book

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters

Chip Kidd how design shapes everything

Chip Kidd on how the speed bump embodies the problem-solving genius of design

Background, transcript, and related reading: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/angela-duckworth-grit-success/

Excerpt from NPR's TED Radio Hour: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2014-03-21

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Angela Duckworth on grit and success

Innovator, artist, protagonist, and positive provocateur, Maria Giudice has pursued a vision of intelligent, elegant, people-centered design throughout her professional life. Her grasp of the pragmatic, the authentic, and the essential have kept her at the forefront of design and business for over 20 years. Under Maria's leadership, Hot Studio, the experience design firm she founded in 1997, grew from a two-person outfit into a full-service creative agency with an impressive list of Fortune 500 clients. Facebook paid Maria the ultimate compliment in Mar 2013, by acquiring her and most of her employees in their largest "acqui-hire" to date. Maria's new role as Director of Product Design at Facebook allows her to experience first-hand the challenges and opportunities DEOs face. She is the co-author of Rise of the DEO: Leadership By Design. 

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Maria Giudice

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/25/vacation-sex-dorianne-laux/

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Dorianne Laux reads "Vacation Sex"

Transcript and background: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/25/william-faulkner-university-of-virginia-recording/

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William Faulkner on writing

Sylvia Plath on poetry – background and full text here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/27/sylvia-plath-reads-the-disquieting-muses-bbc/

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Sylvia Plath on poetry

Sylvia Plath reads her poem "The Disquieting Muses" – background and full text here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/27/sylvia-plath-reads-the-disquieting-muses-bbc/

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The Disquieting Muses

Louise Sandhaus is a graphic designer and educator. She is currently on faculty in the Graphic Design Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

Her design office, LSD (Louise Sandhaus Design), partners with multiple disciplines to realize interpretive projects from the simple to the complex, regardless of media. Clients include Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, Los Angeles World Airports (LAX), and Association of Children’s Museums.

Louise's work, writing, and writing about her work, have appeared in numerous publications, including The Women of Design, Information Design Handbook, and Metropolis magazine, as well as SEGD journal, Eye, and I.D. Her work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Louise recently completed her term on the AIGA board and as Chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community steering committee. She received an MFA in Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts and a Graduate Laureate from the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in The Netherlands.

Her book, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936–1986, was published last year by Metropolis Books and excerpted here.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Louise Sandhaus

On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Steven Heller about his new book "Graphic Style Lab".

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Steven Heller

Debbie Millman talks to Elle Luna about why she walked away from great design jobs with IDEO, Uber, and Mailbox.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Elle Luna

Debbie Millman talks to Simon about the fruits of good leadership: "To see your team achieve more than they thought they were capable of, that they will advance the organization further than you even imagined — because they believe, and they are greatful, and they're inspired — it's all worth it. All the sacrifices. It always is."

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Simon Sinek

Transcript, selected quotes, and further context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/11/07/hillary-clinton-wellesley-speech/

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Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1969 Wellesley College commencement address

Poem text and background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/02/frank-o-hara-song-is-it-dirty/

Audio source: http://www.frankohara.org/audio.html

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Song (Is it dirty) by Frank O'Hara

Background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/07/the-histories-of-the-universe-patti-smith/

Patti Smith "The Histories of the Universe" (1975)

Background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/08/carl-sagan-message-to-mars/

Carl Sagan's message for Mars

Marcel Duchamp reads his 1957 essay, "The Creative Act." Full text + background here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act (1957)

Excerpt from Jeff Goldsmith's Q&A with Ray Bradbury, recorded at Comic Con 2010. Discussion and other highlights here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/04/ray-bradbury-comic-con-interview/

Full audio here: http://www.theqandapodcast.com/2012/06/ray-bradbury-q.html

Ray Bradbury on Predictions and the Secret of Life

Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/10/massimo-vignelli-debbie-millman/

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's Design Matters interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on the three pillars of design education

Read more: www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/10/massimo-vignelli-debbie-millman/

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's Design Matters interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on intellectual refinement

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on print vs. digital books

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.

Subscribe to Design Matters on iTunes for more great interviews with celebrated designers and creative minds: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Maria Popova

Full conversation and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/06/wendy-macnaughton-caroline-paul-design-matters/

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/carolinepaulandwendymacnaughton

Caroline Paul on "Design Matters"

Wendy MacNaughton and Caroline Paul on the secret of creative relationships

Wendy MacNaughton on advertising

2013 SVA Commencement Address. 

Transcript, highlights, and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/13/greil-marcus-sva-commencement-address/

Caroline Paul on "Design Matters"

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