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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

On this episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, legendary designer Tom Geismar talks about the way design practice has changed since the 1950's.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Tom Geismar

Ben Schott was born in North London in 1974. He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read Social and Political Sciences. He graduated in 1996, taking a double First. After an astonishingly brief "career" at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, Ben spent most of his twenties as a freelance portrait photographer for a diverse range of editorial and commercial clients. As a photographer, Ben worked with The Independent, The Times, The Sunday Times, Reader’s Digest, and Sunday Business, among many others, and has photographed a wealth of celebrities from Hugh Grant and Tony Blair, to Gordon Brown and Enoch Powell. In 2002, Ben turned a Christmas card into his first book—Schott’s Original Miscellany—which within weeks was a bestseller. He has subsequently published a series of Miscellanies and Almanacs which have sold some 2.5 million copies, and have been translated into twenty-one languages. As a journalist, Ben has worked with many of the great British titles; he now writes for the Times of London and the New York Times.

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Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Ben Schott

On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann about her career in museums and why the interest in design has surged in recent years.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Caroline Baumann

Google's Matias Duarte, Dropbox's Gentry Underwood, and Fast Company's Mark Wilson discuss The Smartphone of 2020 at Innovation Uncensored 2014.

The Smartphone of 2020

Sam Roberts, author of A History of New York in 101 Objects, in conversation with The New York Public Library's Jessica Strand. Peek inside his fascinating book here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/01/a-history-of-new-york-in-101-objects

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Sam Roberts on New York City

Young Adult. THE OLD BROWN SUITCASE, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both around the globe, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived the Holocaust against all odds. Slava, a fourteen-year-old teen, comes to Canada with her parents and sister and a suitcase filled with memories of a lost childhood, memories that now haunt her new life. She cannot forget the hunger, stench and disease in the Warsaw Ghetto, nor the fear and humiliation of being incarcerated behind a high brick wall. She cannot forget her extraordinary escape from the Ghetto, leaving behind her beloved parents and sister. Nor can she forget being swallowed up in a strange and unknown place to survive under a hidden identity. The story juxtaposes heart-wrenching scenes from a child's life in war-torn Poland with the life of a teenager trying to adjust to a new country in time of peace. In Canada, it is not easy for Slava to build a bridge between two cultures; nor is it easy to live with the turmoil of her immediate past. At the same time she must face the new challenges involved in being an immigrant, a Jew and a teenage girl. Historical notes on the Warsaw Ghetto and a bibliography for future reading have been appended for those who wish further insights.

Audiobook: The Old Brown Suitcase, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz

Artist and designer, Kelli Anderson, is a New Orleans native, who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Kelli draws, photographs, cuts, prints, codes, and designs a variety of things for herself and others. From interactive paper to layered, experimental websites, everything is done in her studio, which houses a 1919 letterpress! Anderson was the digital collections photographer at the American Museum of Natural History, but stepped down to pursue her own artistic work. She is the recipient of the Ars Electronica Prix Award of Distinction. Kelli also teaches art history at Pratt, where she attended graduate school.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Kelli Anderson

#QOTD: How many copies of the #AskGaryVee Book are you going to buy?

#TIMESTAMPS
2:00 - If you had the opportunity to speak in front of an auditorium full of elementary schoolers, what would be your topic of choice and why?
5:26 - Is it possible to have TWO burning passions and pursue them at the same time without half-assing them? Or is it ideal to pick one at a time?
11:25 - Can you rate my Instagram on a 1-10 scale & tell me how I could improve it?
14:35 - If you have a business that is growing fast, is it more important to perfect the system/process or focus on adding more people to the team?
16:51 - Instagram ads look like they will be opening up soon. If you were launching a book and you could only spend money on one place in ads, would you pick Instagram or Facebook? Also, how would you hit 10k pre-orders through bulk orders, where would you focus your energy?

#LINKS
GARY ON JIMMY FALLON http://www.viddler.com/v/13aaa7
THE MONDAY VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6M-XUW4xYY
WUZZLES ON EBAY http://www.ebay.com/bhp/wuzzles
INSTAGRAM FROM THIS EP'S AUDIT https://instagram.com/whadafunk/

#AskGaryVee Episode 113: Do You Have To Choose Between Two Passions?

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Seth Godin is a bestselling author and entrepreneur, His books that have not only been worldwide bestsellers, they have changed the way people think about marketing, branding and business. (01.12.07) 

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Seth Godin

Cheryl Heller is an American communication strategist, writer, and designer whose work focuses on using communication design to transform organizations into living systems. Cheryl Heller believes that communication design has a vital role to play in the creation of a sustainable future, and is determined to prove it. She has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, Graphis Magazine, and Communication Arts, is the recipient of countless awards from national and international creative competitions. Her work is included in the Library of Congress permanent collection, and has been published in numerous books on design and creativity. (2/10/12)

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Cheryl Heller

Jen Bekman is a New York City gallerist, entrepreneur and writer. After building a successful internet career with companies including New York Online, Netscape, Disney and Meetup, Jen turned her internet experience and fresh perspective on to the art world. She is the founder of Jen Bekman Projects which encompasses three ventures: her eponymous gallery in NYC, Hey, Hot Shot!, a photography competition, and the pioneering e-commerce fine art print site, 20x200. 20x200's launch was entirely bootstrapped, and it quickly grew into a profitable, million dollar business. Jen was named one of Forbes.com’s Top Ten Female Entrepreneurs to Watch, as well as Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology. (03.02.12)

On Design Observer: http://observermedia.designobserver.com/

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jen Bekman

Wendy MacNaughton and Caroline Paul are the illustrator and author, respectively, of the new book Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and a graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her documentary series Meanwhile tells the stories of communities through drawings and the subject's own words, and is being published as an anthology by Chronicle Books in 2014. She's also illustrated the forthcoming book The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Wine, by Richard Betts (Houghton Mifflin, 2013). She has degrees in fine art/advertising and social work from Art Center College of Design and Columbia University. When they let her, she likes to talk with students at Art Center College of Design, and she is an artist in residence at Intersection for the Arts.

Caroline Paul is an author based in San Francisco. Paul grew up in New England, with an identical twin, a younger brother, and a menagerie of animals. She graduated from Stanford University, where she studied Communications. In 1989, she became a San Francisco firefighter. She is the author of Fighting Fire (Skywriter Books, 2011), about her thirteen years as a firefghter, and East Wind, Rain (2006) which has been optioned for a movie.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton

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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