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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

On @designmatters, Debbie Millman interviews the celebrated writer and philosopher Alain De Botton about love, life, and everything in between.

Follow @designmatters for more invigorating conversations with artists, writers, designers, and other creative thinkers.

Background, context, and highlights: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/27/alain-de-botton-the-course-of-love/

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Design Matters: Alain De Botton

Debbie Millman talks to Alain de Botton about  love and sex. 

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Alain De Botton

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 Steven Heller about his attitude when he was a young designer. "I was short sighted. I was arrogant. I had a sense of myself that was disproportionate to all reality."

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Steven Heller

Debbie talks to designer Bonnie Siegler about her career and about the conflict between designers and their clients. "The clients aren't the problem, the clients aren't jerks, they're not assholes, it's not that they have bad taste, or anything like that. Sometimes they just have no idea how to interact with professional creative people."

Design Matters from the Archive: Bonnie Siegler

Debbie Millman talks to Alain de Botton about love and sex. "My view of human nature is that all of us are only just holding it together in various ways. And that's ok. We just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we are all these incredibly fragile beings."

Design Matters from the Archive: Alain de Botton

Debbie talks to writer Caroline Paul about her death-defying adventures, and how girls must learn the difference between fear and exhilaration. "When you face a situation you can choose, do you want to listen overwhelmingly to your fear, or do you want to try to access your bravery?"

Design Matters from the Archive: Caroline Paul

Debbie talks to Joe Hollier about an invention of his that is designed to bring back boredom in the era of the smartphone.

Design Matters from the Archive: Joe Hollier

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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