Alex Center is a Brooklyn based designer who currently works for the small startup, The Coca-Cola Company. He grew up in the town of Oceanside, New York, home to the world's 2nd Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs. He once worked for the New York Knicks as a designer where he met both his childhood idol, John Starks and nemesis Isiah Thomas. He has spent most of his professional hours being creative on behalf of the beverage brand vitaminwater. Over the years he has designed billboards, built breakthrough advertising campaigns, launched innovative new products, even written label copy and once met rapper 50 Cent who told him "You must think you're pretty special." He got nervous and instantly started sweating. In 2011, He was named one of the 200 Best Packaging Designers by Luerzers Archive. Today he works across a portfolio of global brands at Coca-Cola that include vitaminwater, smartwater & Powerade. In his personal time he enjoys rooting for New York sports teams that wear orange/blue, doing improv at the UCB Theatre and searching for the freshest prosciutto in NY.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Alex Center

DSVC Board Members Bryan Grudowski, Alina Suzeth & Ramsey Ruelas discuss September's speaker Justin Harder.

Check out poster designer Justin Harder at http://www.clausstudios.com/

Website: http://dsvc.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_DSVC

Guests
Bryan Grudowski: http://dsvc.org/member/2/bryan-grudowski

Alina Suzeth: http://dsvc.org/member/309/alina-suzeth

Hosted & Edited by Ramsey Ruelas: http://dsvc.org/member/10/ramsey-ruelas

Music by Glenn Ferguson
gfpostaudio@gmail.com

Rough Talks | Unicorns

Designer, author, critic, co-chair of SVA’s MFA program in design and National Design Award recipient Steven Heller talks to Debbie Millman about ideas from his new ebook, Design Cult: 25 Essays on Design Culture — the first of a series of three titles published exclusively as e-books through the DesignFile consortium from the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. In Design Cult Heller expounds on such disparate topics as Milton Glaser, Japanese masks, velvet touch lettering, anthropomorphism and people in glass apartments. In this podcast, Steven and Debbie discuss how design is both a cult and culture, the dirty decade, the death of a trend and what designers have in common with Harvey Weinstien.

On Design Observer: observermedia.designobserver.com/audio/steven-heller/37737/

On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/desig…lman/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Steven Heller

DSVC Rough Talks is a podcast series about design, visual arts, and the creative industries which support them. Join us as we dive deeper into the people, topics, meetings and events of the DSVC with our host, Ramsey Ruelas.

Rough Talks | Unicorns

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