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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

On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Julia Turshen about cooking and writing (and how to successfully peel a hard boiled egg).

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Julia Turshen

Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand discuss the The Grid, which uses artificial intelligence to design websites, the history of grids, and the unlikely success of coloring books for adults.

Episode 10: Inside the Lines

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

Michael and Jessica discuss the Doomsday Clock, Canada‘s anniversary logo, and Tim Geithner’s infographic challenge for MBA students.

Episode 12: 150 Years, 7 Minutes, 6 Seconds

Debbie Millman talks to artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, who explains how illustrating and writing children’s books has changed his fine art painting.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Oliver Jeffers

On this episode, Debbie talks with Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey about their qualifications to run Heath Ceramics. "I threw a pot in high school … it was pretty good;" why they don't advertise: "It's better to be interesting than to hire someone to make you sound interesting when you're not;" and their aim to build a holistic business model, one that integrates designing, making, and selling.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Robin Petravic + Catherine Bailey

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

Debbie Millman talks to Target’s Chief Creative Officer Todd Waterbury about how technology is changing consumption and about how smart phones have raised our expectations for how companies should interact with us.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Todd Waterbury

Debbie talks to architect Pierluigi Serraino about some of the things creative people have in common.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: 2009-2016

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Pierluiggi Serraino

Debbie talks to Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney about her new book on women entrepreneurs and makers, and about the necessity and difficulty of mid-career change.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Grace Bonney

Debbie talks to poet Eileen Myles about poetry, fame, and politics.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Eileen Myles

Debbie talks to writer Tim Ferriss about the strategies he has used to change his life.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Tim Ferriss

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.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Maria Popova

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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Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Robin Petravic + Catherine Bailey

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