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To launch the 10th season of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Isaac Mizrahi about why he loves fashion and why he does so many things outside of fashion.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Isaac Mizrahi

Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand talk about a panel they participated in at "Everything Is Design", the Paul Rand exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, plus the return of Mad Men and the fate of photography giants Kodak and Polaroid.

Episode 8: Land, Rand, Mad Men

Guggenheim curator Louise Averill Svendsen discusses the work of Jean Dubuffet, noting that his chosen subject matter, unlike that of his classicist and humanist contemporaries, was “everyday” and “unbeautiful.” Svendsen asserts that Dubuffet was not concerned with the notion of beauty, noting that the term “ugly” is sometimes used in relation to his art. She also compares and contrasts Dubuffet’s early and late works. This lecture took place on November 1, 1962.

Transcript: https://www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/615214T03_01_Jean-Dubuffet.pdf

Photo: David Heald © SRGF

Guggenheim Archives  

Jean Dubuffet by Louise Averill Svendsen, 1962

Guggenheim curator Louise Averill Svendsen discusses the work of Joan Miró.

Guggenheim Archives

Joan Miró with Louise Averill Svendsen, 1962

Art historian Sam Hunter discusses the work of New York School painter Philip Guston.


Philip Guston with Sam Hunter, 1962

Visualizing new horizons, from Pluto to Porto

Episode 16: New Horizons

Debbie Millman talks to Peter Mendelsund about what makes a great book cover, rebranding the classics, and about his fears of the iPad and Kindle.

Design Matters From The Archive: Peter Mendelsund

Debbie talks to Massimo Vignelli about his favorite typeface, his fight against vulgarity in his design, and what he means by forceful design.

Design Matters From The Archive: Massimo Vignelli.mp3

Debbie talks to Louise FIli about designing book covers, designing for restaurants, about why she prefers working for small businesses, and about the importance of sketching. "When I get excited about a design that's in the sketch pahse, it's like 'Ah! This is it. Now I really have something.' And that's usually the one that will work."

Design Matters From The Archive: Louise Fili

Rainbows, selfie sticks, and the flag of New Zealand

Episode 17: Over the Rainbow

Debbie Millman talks to Michael Arad about the process of design — "I think design is a process, it's about constraints, and its about responding to these constraints creatively, but without losing the vision of what you are trying to do."

Design Matters From The Archive: Michael Arad

Debbie Millman talks to Design Observer co-founder Michael Bierut about why he thinks graphic design is so cool: It all goes back to high school and designing the poster for the school play, "There were other people acting in the play, and that's one way to go, I suppose, but doing the poster for the play, my god..."

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Michael Bierut

On this podcast Debbie talks to Mike Rigby about his international career in design and branding and how to stay creatively engaged. “Every event you go to, every person you meet, everything you do is fuel for your next idea.”

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: 2009-2017

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Mike Rigby

On this podcast Debbie Millman talks to Rochelle Udell about her very creative professional life. "The strength of creative people is to be the outside observer of ordinary things. That's the strength of the creative person, so you've gotta stay outside a little bit."

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Rochelle Udell

Debbie talks to Connie Birdsall about designing some of the most successful brands of our time and what to do when a meeting with clients is not going well.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Connie Birdsall

On this episode Debbie Millman talks to Jonathan Adler about how his pottery defined his aesthetic. “It’s about craft and luxury mixed with a sense of optimism and cheekyness.”

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jonathan Adler

Debbie talks to poet Elizabeth Alexander about the journey of her extraordinary life and how death makes us think about what we truly value.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Elizabeth Alexander

Debbie talks to performance artist Marina Abramović about her career, her art, and her incredible body of work.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Marina Abramović

Design Matters by Debbie Millman features interviews with designers, artists and cultural leaders, including Lawrence Weiner, Barbara Kruger, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Kandel, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Michael Arad, Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, Steven Heller, Jonah Lehrer, among others.

In 2011, Design Matters received the People’s Design Award from the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

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