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A set recorded live at Goldfish Fridays June 2013 

House/Deep House/Tech House

Part 1 of a 3 hour set... Part 2 coming soon.

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Bookings :

Rod Lay - Global Spin

email : rod@globalspin.co

Alex Taylor Live Set Goldfish June '13 Part 1

Check out the interview I did with Larry Flick on his show The Morning Jolt on SiriusXM.

Dave Audé on "The Morning Jolt" w/ Larry Flick (SiriusXM 109)

Here's part #2 of my Ibiza '13 poolside mixes... There was just too much great summery house music out there... so I had to make another mix - I hope you like it!

It's unashamedly vocal, &
 fun, but most importantly; sexy & soulful house music.

The mix starts off with my favourite track of the moment - 'Heartbeat' by Miguel Migs featuring the incomparable Lisa Shaw on vocals and lots of 'beautiful' new tracks plus a few classics sprinkled throughout.

If you like what you hear feel free to leave a comment & share the mix :-)

My facebook page is www.facebook.com/AlexTaylorDJ and for all bookings contact :

Rod Lay rod@globalspin.co

Featuring tracks and remixes by :

Miguel Migs/Mr. V/Scott Diaz/Andrea Carissimi/Afrocut/Erik Bo/Cupcakes/Africanism/Erik Hagelton/The Cube Guys/Grant Nelson/Tensnake/Basement Jaxx/Analog People In A Digital World/Thor/Blank & Jones/Afterlife/Groove Assassin/Antonello Ferrari/Dawn Tallman/Mike Newman/Dihann Moore/Peyton/Frankie Knuckles/Eric Kupper/Directors Cut/Tortured Soul/Purple Disco Machine/Jay-J/Halo Varga/Latrice Barnett/Louie Vega/Mariah Carey/Miguel

Part #1 is available here http://soundcloud.com/alex-taylor/alex-taylor-ibiza-13-poolside

Alex Taylor Ibiza '13 Poolside Mix Part #2

Chip Kidd is a Designer/Writer in New York City (and Stonington, CT, and Palm Beach, FL). His book cover designs for Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked non-stop since 1986, have helped create a revolution in the art of American book packaging. He is the recipient of the National Design Award for Communications, as well at the Use of Photography in Design award from the International Center of Photography. Kidd has published two novels, The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners, as well as Batman: Death By Design, an original graphic novel published by DC Comics and illustrated by Dave Taylor. He is also the author of several books about comics, notably Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Batman: Animated, Jack Cole and Plasticman (with Art Spiegelman), Batman Collected, Shazam! The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal, Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan. He is also the co-author and designer of True Prep, the sequel to the beloved Official Preppy Handbook. His newest book Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design is “An excellent introduction to graphic design" according to Milton Glaser. A distinguished and prolific Lecturer, Kidd has spoken at Princeton, Yale, Harvard, RISD and a zillion other places. His 2012 TED talk has garnered over 400,000 hits, and is cited as one of the 'funniest of the year.'

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Chip Kidd

Jennifer Kinon & Bobby Martin are designers and educators who co-founded OCD (Original Champions of Design). Together they develop brand identity systems for a broad range of clients that include, among others, the National Basketball Association, Girl Scouts of the USA and Friends of the High Line. Their work has won awards from the Art Directors Club, D&AD, AIGA365, Type Directors Club and Print as well as Best of Show and Judge's Pick in the 2011 Brand New Awards.

Jennifer Kinon recently served as the president of AIGA/NY. Prior to founding OCD, she worked in the New York office of Pentagram with Michael Bierut, served as design director of New York City’s 2012 Olympic Bid and worked as art director for Graphis Inc. She graduated from the University of Michigan and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Kinon is the first program graduate to join the faculty.

Prior to founding OCD, Bobby Martin developed brand experiences from the inside out while leading internal design teams at Nokia, in London, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has also served on the board of directors of AIGA/NY. He teaches identity design at The Cooper Union and recently joined the faculty of his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, MFA Design Program where he holds a graduate degree. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jennifer Kinon & Bobby Martin

In 1999, Dawn Hancock founded Firebelly Design, a studio that does “work for people we think are making a difference in the world”. With the mantra “Good Design for Good Reason.™” the studio is a pioneer in socially responsible design, and continues to live the principles of sustainable innovation and social responsibility.

In 2004, Firebelly Design started the annual Grant for Good program, which “awards a year’s worth of full-scale marketing, design and business planning services to one deserving nonprofit organization.” Shortly after setting up that program, she decided to launch her own organization, which evolved into an entire socially minded enterprise.

The Firebelly Foundation, established in 2006, includes several programs, each a reflection of Dawn’s passion and ethic. Under the Foundation’s umbrella, she established the Humboldt Park non-profit Reason to Give and runs the 10-day intensive Camp Firebelly for hungry young designers. Most recently, she started Firebelly University, an entrepreneurial incubator that emphasizes taking risks and doing good.

Dawn holds a BFA in Visual Communication from Northern Illinois University and was named one of The 11 Most Generous Designers by Fast Company.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Dawn Hancock

Bob Gill is a designer, an illustrator, a copywriter, a film-maker and a teacher. After freelancing in New York, he went to London on a whim in 1960 and stayed for fifteen years. He started Fletcher/Forbes/Gill, a design office with the two brightest designers in England. F/F/G began with two assistants and a secretary. Today, it's called Pentagram, with offices everywhere except Tibet. Gill returned to New York in 1975 to write and design Beatlemania. Gill has had one-man shows in Europe, South America, the Far East and in the US. He was elected to the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and the Designers and Art Directors Association of London recently presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Bob Gill

Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand discuss the midterm election and currency design. Plus Jessica imitates a London cabbie, and Michael nails the pronunciation of our sponsor, MailChimp.

Episode 3: Dollars and Change

Lets suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream,
and you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes.

You would have every kind of pleasure, you see,
and after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great."
But now lets have a surprise, lets have a dream which isn’t under control.
Well something is going to happen to me that i don’t know what it’s gonna be.
Then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream, and finally you would dream where you are now.

If you awaken from this illusion,
and you understand that black implies white,
self implies other,
life implies death.
You can feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world,
not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

- Alan Watts

dreams

Scott Stowell is the proprietor of Open. Before starting Open, Scott was the art director of Benetton's Colors magazine in Rome and a senior designer at M&Co. New York. Before that, he received a BFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. A former vice president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Scott also writes and lectures about design and teaches at Yale University and the School of Visual Arts. In 2008, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum named Scott the winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design.

Subscribe to Design Matters on iTunes for more great interviews with celebrated designers and creative minds: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/desig…lman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Scott Stowell

Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram in 1990, he worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates. Bierut's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs.  (04.08.05)

On Design Observer: http://observermedia.designobserver.com/audio/michael-bierut/8937/

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Michael Bierut

ID magazine has called Stefan's work: "Distilled, intense, cunning, evocative and utterly complete. His inventions have set a new standard." A candid and revealing discussion with the master of design. (06.29.05)

On Design Observer: http://observermedia.designobserver.com/audio/stefan-sagmeister/8967/

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Stefan Sagmeister

Paul Sahre, graphic designer, illustrator, educator, author and editor, established his own design company in 1997. Consciously maintaining a small office, he has established a large presence in graphic design. His office is part design studio, part silkscreen lab, where he prints posters for various theatres, while on the other side of the office he designs book covers. (02.10.06)

On Design Observer: http://observermedia.designobserver.com/audio/paul-sahre/8987/

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Paul Sahre

Hillman Curtis could easily be called the Grandmaster of Flash, as he has literally defined the genre. He has designed motion graphic spots for clients such as MTV, Rolling Stone and Adobe and his innovative design solutions have garnered him numerous awards all over the world. (02.17.06)

On Design Observer: http://observermedia.designobserver.com/audio/hillman-curtis/8997/

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Hillman Curtis

Eddie Opara was born in Wandsworth, London in 1972. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his career as a designer at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as a senior designer/art director at 2x4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office, in 2005. He joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in October 2010.

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Eddie Opara discusses his Jesuit education, being part of a collaborative movement, the difference between original work and open sourced work, accepting a job from Michael Bierut while in the bathroom, creating the Brooklyn Museum brand at 2x4, and working at Pentagram. (03.04.11)

On Design Observer: http://observermedia.designobserver.com/

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Eddie Opara

Design Army is one of the best and brightest design firms in the D.C. metropolitan area. Started in 2003 by Jake and Pum Lefebure, Design Army works with everyone from the Washington Ballet to AIGA to the Washingtonian. Their work has been consistently awarded and praised across the design industry. They design web sites, corporate annual reports and invitations to charity events — and anything else design-oriented that one could possibly come up with. (11.04.11)

On Design Observer: http://observermedia.designobserver.com/

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Design Army

Pursuit of Pleasure 7

Pursuit 8

كان شايل الوانه 
كان رايح مدرسته
و بيحلم بـ حصانه
و بلعبه و طيارته

و اما انطلق الغدر و موت حتى براءته
سال الدم الطاهر على كراسته

من هنا بنقول ارضنا
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 

اب و مد بخوفه ايديه
يحمي بعمره ضناه
و اما ارتعش جسد الطفل
و بقى في ايدين الله

بكت الام وصرخت قالت يا ولداه
عاش الظلم المر الغادر سقط العدل و ناح

من هنا بنقول ارضنا 
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 

كان طفل فلسطيني ده بيته
و ده كل اللي جناه
ده تاريخه و تاريخ اجداده
و دي ارضه و سماه

هنا جرجس و محمد اصحابه و الدين لله
جه ظالم و سرق احلامهم كل املهم راح

من هنا بنقول ارضنا 
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 

سلم بسلم و حرب بحرب
شرع الله و الدين
و ازاي نار تحرق في القلب
و نفضل ساكتين

يا عرب لمو الصف كفاية و اقرو صلاح الدين
عمره ما فرط مره في حقو ودا كلن اقوى سلاح 

من هنا بنقول ارضنا
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 


صبرا شاتيلا و شهداء الاقصى
الف حصار و حصار
و عيال كبرت قبل اوانها
حلفت تاخذ بالثار

غضب القلب المر الدامي بيتحول احجار 
و العصافير بتحارب جيش بس إيمانها سلاح
من هنا بنقول ارضنا 
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 

لو جه ظالم مرة و طردك
من بيتك و رماك
و بيزرع على ارضك حقد
و من دمك اشواك

نار ظلمه و جرحك لازم تتحول لهلاك
و تعلم اولاد اولادك ان الثورة كفاح

من هنا بنقول ارضنا 
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 

لما نمد ايدينا لغيرنا
و يبقى الرد نيران
لازم يبقى سلاحنا في ايدنا
عشان العدل يبان
كل العالم يسمع صوتنا الطالع من الاحزان 
من يستشهد يطلع غيره و الموت للسفاح 

من هنا بنقول ارضنا 
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 

الارض عشان نزرع فيها
يا محمد و نموت
بكرة الحق حيرجع ليها
ملعون اي سكوت

صوتك و انت في موتك عالي اغلى و اروع صوت
حيحول جلادك بكرة و اعداءك اشباح

من هنا بنقول ارضنا 
عرضنا دمنا امنا
و ان مات ملايين مننا
القدس حترجع لنا 

أوبيرت القدس حترجعلنا

Here's my latest podcast!

It's a Peak-Time mix for WHITE feat. KATHERINE ELLIS - Easter Sunday @ Marquee, Sydney, Australia.

Details here:

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Featuring tracks and remixes by:

Janet Jackson/Peter Rauhofer/Christina Aguilera/Paulo & Jackinsky/Mary J. Blige/Baggi Begovic & Robbie Taylor/Chris Marsh/Krysten Cummings/Jonny Marsh/Pagano/SESA/Taito Tikaro & Flavio Zarza/DJ Chus/Jeff Vale & Igor Tamegao/Loreen/Lee Harris/Bruno Mars/Sultan & Ned Shepard/David Tort/Dirty Vegas/Danny Verde/Al Mike/Cookie/Norman Doray/NERVO/Rihanna/Deux/Etienne Ozborne/Bent Collective/Avicii/Nicky Romero/Arty/Chris James

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Alex Taylor WHITE @ Marquee Peak-Time Podcast

Cliff Sloan borrowed $10,000 from his parents in 1993 and started The Sloan Group, a six-person creative marketing shop specializing in youth, entertainment and technology marketing. By 1999, The Sloan Group was 60 people strong, had garnered over 100 awards for creative excellence and boasted a blue-chip client roster that included Nickelodeon, MTV, Turner, MasterCard, AT&T, Disney, HBO and Pepsi. In 2000, The Sloan Group was acquired by The Interpublic Group of Companies, the world’s third largest advertising, marketing and communications organization. The Sloan Group enjoyed Agency of Record status for a diverse roster of clients ranging from entertainment and sports to financial services and government. As President and Chief Creative Officer, Cliff oversaw all agency operations while leading the agency’s strategic marketing, brand engineering, creative and business development divisions. In 2008, along with partner Gary Zarr, Cliff started Phil & Co., an agency dedicated to contemporary marketing for philanthropies and companies “doing good”. He teaches Cause Branding and Marketing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is a judge of the 2013 Cause Marketing Forum Halo Awards. 

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Cliff Sloan

Amy Webb is the head of of Webbmedia Group, a digital strategy agency that solves complex strategic and operational problems related to disruptive technologies and emerging digital trends that are catalyzing great change across many industries. Recently, she worked with the City of Chicago to redesign, in every aspect, a modern library system for the 21st century. She co-founded Spark Camp, a 501(c)(3) invite-only working group that brings together the brightest minds in media and technology once each quarter. Prior to starting Webbmedia Group, Amy was a reporter/ writer with Newsweek (Tokyo) and the Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) where she covered emerging technology, media and cultural trends. She has contributed to the New York Times, NPR, Economist and many publications and appears regularly as a commentator on numerous broadcast shows.

Amy originally attended the Jacobs School of Music to study classical clarinet, and she later graduated with a B.A. in political science. She also has an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Amy has served on the adjunct faculty at University of Maryland, Temple University, Tokyo University and University of the Arts.
Her new book, DATA: A LOVE STORY: How I Gamed Online Dating To Meet My Match was published in January 2013 and has been featured in People, Good Morning America, The View, Marketplace, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Guardian, Wired, Elle Magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine and elsewhere. DATA chronicles how Amy used data analytics and smart digital marketing strategies to land her online dating profile at the top, and then built a framework to exploit the algorithms to her own benefit (finding a husband).


Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Amy Webb

Jennifer Sterling is a designer, artist, typographer and book publisher based in New York and the rincipal of Sterling Design. Her work has been exhibited and resides in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Library of Congress. In 2000 she was inducted into Alliance Graphique Internationale and Who’s Who in America. Graphis included her in their “Top Ten Designers in the World” list and USA GD named her as one of “Twelve Designers to change Design into the Millennium.” Additionally she has served on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Design and Accessions Board.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jennifer Sterling

Emily Oberman studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She began her career working with Tibor Kalman at his legendary studio M&Co., where from 1987 to 1993 she collaborated with Kalman to create groundbreaking work for Knoll, Wieden & Kennedy, Talking Heads, and Bennetton’s Colors magazine. In 1993, she co-founded the design studio Number Seventeen with her partner Bonnie Siegler. She joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in April 2012. Her clients have included NBC Universal (logos for “30 Rock,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and “Saturday Night Live,” including the opening title sequence for 15 years), Herman Miller, Air America and the creation of Lucky magazine for Condé Nast. Oberman’s book design has included work for the Type Directors Club, HBO’s “Sex and the City,” Glamour magazine, and the deluxe illustrated edition of Stephen Dubner’s Superfreakonomics. Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, the Type Directors Club, and the Art Directors Club, among others. In 2004, she was awarded the prestigious Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award for distinguished alumni from her alma mater Cooper Union. She has served on the national board of AIGA and as president of its New York chapter.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Emily Oberman

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

Ben Chestnut is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp, one of the most successful e-mail marketing companies around, with over 1.2 million users. They were recently featured in “Fast Company” for their non-traditional corporate culture and creative environment.

Aarron Walter is the Director of User Experience at MailChimp, where he strives to make software more human. Aarron is the author of Designing for Emotion from A Book Apart. Aarron taught design at colleges in the US and Europe for nearly a decade, and speaks at conferences around the world. His design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of startups and venture capitalists.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Ben Chestnut and Aarron Walter

An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

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Debbie Millman: Fail Safe

Jessica Walsh is a designer, art director, and illustrator working in New York City. She is a partner at the New York based design studio, Sagmeister & Walsh and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has won numerous design awards from the Type Director’s Club, Art Director’s Club, SPD, Print, and Graphis. She has received various celebrated distinctions including Computer Art’s “Top Rising Star in Design”, an Art Director’s Club “Young Guns” award, and Print Magazine’s “New Visual Artist”.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jessica Walsh

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.

Subscribe to Design Matters for free on iTunes, where new episodes are uploaded weekly: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695