Debbie talks with Maurice Cherry about his education and career, and about why the profession of graphic design has been so slow to acknowledge Black designers. “Black people were barely free 100 years ago so certainly they weren’t thinking about being graphic designers.”

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Maurice Cherry

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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Based around a different theme for every mix, the format of “No Turn Unstoned” is just darn good music of ANY genre sequenced eclectically. The usual suspects are Rock, Soul, Dubstep, Drum ‘N Bass, Jazz, Juke, Electronica, Hip Hop, House, Reggae, Blues, Pop, and a little bit of Country now and then. (No Opera, though:)

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At a very early age, dj polished solid's uncles exposed her to a wide range of music. on any given day, they would play anything from edgar winter to yes to parliament / funkadelic to slave to lynyrd skynyrd. Today this is known as "genre hopping."

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