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Rob Walker is a technology/culture columnist for Yahoo News. He is the former Consumed columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and has contributed to many publications. 

Insights Per Minute: Rob Walker on Seeing

Ralph Caplan is a writer and communications consultant and lectures on design. He is the former editor-in-chief of I.D. Magazine and the author of several books.

Insights Per Minute: Ralph Caplan on Titles

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. 

Insights Per Minute: Nicholas Christakis on Networks

Alice Twemlow is the co-founder and chair of a two-year graduate program in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is also a PhD candidate in the History of Design department at the Royal College of Art, London.

Twemlow has written about design for publications including Eye, Design Issues, Design & Culture, I.D., Print, New York Magazine, and Architect’s Newspaper. She is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision, 2006) and her essays are included in books such as 60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future (Thames and Hudson, 2010,) The Barnbrook Bible (Booth Clibborn, 2007,) Looking Closer 5 (Allworth Press, 2007,) Graphic Design Words/Worlds (La Triennale Design Museum, 2011,) Design Icons, (Berg, 2013,) The Aspen Complex, (Sternberg Press, 2012), and Popular Design & Entertainment, (Manchester University Press, 2009.)

Twemlow often serves on design and architecture juries and editorial boards, and moderates conferences such as the "Tasmeem Doha Conference" at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and "Abstract: The Future of Design in Media Conference" in Portland Maine. She has recently lectured at the ICOGRADA Congress, AIGA National Conference, AIGA Chicago, and MoMA.

Insights Per Minute: Alice Twemlow on Home.

Ricky Jay is considered one of the world's great sleight of hand artists. 

Insights Per Minute: Ricky Jay on Collecting

Steven Heller is the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. Steven is a prolific author.

Insights Per Minute: Steven Heller on Recommendations

Liz Gerber is the Junior Breed Chair of Design at Northwestern U. and Faculty Founder of Design For America. 

Insights Per Minute: Liz Gerber on Feedback

Sean Adams is a partner at AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills. Sean is President ex officio and past national board member of AIGA, and President ex officio of AIGA Los Angeles. He teaches at Art Center College of Design. 

Insights Per Minute: Sean Adams on Typography

Wendy Ju is a PhD graduate of the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, and the founder of Ambidextrous magazine, Stanford University's Journal of Design. 

Insights Per Minute: Wendy  Ju on Fun

Mariana co-founded Designmatters in 2001. As the head of the Department, she is responsible for the strategic leadership of a dynamic portfolio of global and national educational projects, research collaborations and publications at the intersection of art and design education and social innovation. 

Insights Per Minute: Mariana Amatullo on Honesty

Krista Donaldson, PhD, is a mechanical and design engineer based in San Francisco who focuses on development in less industrialized economies as CEO of the nonprofit firm D-Rev (Design Revolution). 

Insights Per Minute: Krista Donaldson on Users

Megan Whitmarsh is a Los Angeles based artist who works predominantly in textiles. Although she also creates comic books, paintings, drawings, and stop-action animation, Whitmarsh is best known for her hand-embroidered canvases and soft sculptures.

Insights Per Minute: Megan Whitmarsh on Originality

Debbie Millman talks to Ron Burrage about his design career, his performance career, and about how to design fearlessly.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Ron Burrage

Silence often demarcates power, while it can also be used as a tool in response. In the case of Bayview that afternoon, silence was a compounded diffusion of many agencies of power, from those who have been silenced to those who have chosen to remain silent. Surrounding a small vivacious street party, the only other thing left to hear in a few hours listen was the ominous quiet of the status quo.

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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

Debbie Millman talks to author, columnist, and speaker Virginia Postrel about the power of glamorous objects and glamorous people.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Virginia Postrel

A new sonic tour of the Bay Area's fringes. This installment: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Island

(in)Fringe 04: Staying Tuned

The Robert Cray Band comes with guns blazing to perform at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis.  Recorded September 14, 2012.  Enjoy.  Recorded by Jon Valley and Mary Belzer.  Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org.

The Robert Cray Band "Great Big Old House" Live at KDHX 09/14/12

@the-observatory-1: Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand on design, current events, and current enthusiasms.

@designmatters with Debbie Millman: thought-provoking conversations with industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers, and educators. 

Insights Per Minute: Liz Gerber on Feedback

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