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Jake Barton is founder and principal of Local Projects, an award-winning media design studio for museums and public spaces. In this interview with Debbie Millman, Barton discusses his work on the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, the intricacies of designing experiences for public space, and the magic of collaborative storytelling.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jake Barton

Tina Roth Eisenberg is the "Swiss designer gone NYC" behind the popular design blog Swiss Miss (http://swiss-miss.com), as well as the founder of the global free breakfast lecture series CreativeMornings (http://creativemornings.com)

In this interview with Debbie Millman, Eisenberg discusses her blog, sharing her life with her readers, things that make her smile, four-letter names, crowdsourcing, living and working in Brooklyn, CreativeMornings and the beauty found in ordinary things.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Tina Roth Eisenberg

Marian Bantjes is a typographer, designer, artist and writer. Working from a small island off the west coast of Canada, her personal and obsessive work has brought her international recognition. Her work has been published in books and magazines around the world and is included in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

In this interview with Debbie Millman, Bantjes discusses her most recent book, I Wonder (Monicelli and Thames & Hudson), her shift from typesetter to famous designer, ornament, secrets, cipher, coded text, causing pain to type purists and the importance of putting good work into the public sphere. 

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Marian Bantjes

Chris Ware is a cartoonist and the author of the extraordinary new "book" Building Stories (http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/05/building-stories-chris-ware/)

In this interview with Debbie Millman, Ware discusses the relationship between storytelling and empathy, the challenges of giving shape to the human experience, the subtle commentary on sexuality in his work, and the role of sadness in writing.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Chris Ware

Aaron Draplin is the force powering Draplin Design Compay (http://draplin.com) in Portland, Oregon. Having made a name for himself with stand-out work for snowboarding companies and their like, he’s now courting more mainstream clients including Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, Field Notes, Esquire, Nike, Wired, Timberline, Chunklet, Red Wing, Incase, Giro, Cobra Dogs, Megafaun, Ford Motor Co., Hughes Entertainment, Chuck Prophet, and even the Obama Administration. Born in the Midwest, and a graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art, Draplin has become an important voice in the world of graphic design while maintaining a sense of humor.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Aaron Draplin

Bill Moggridge was a brilliant industrial and interaction designer and co-founder of design firm IDEO. He designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass and pioneered interaction design as a discipline. 

Bill also taught at the Royal College of Art in London and Stanford University. He authored 'Designing Interactions' (MIT Press) which was named one of the 10 Best Innovation and Design Books of 2006 by BusinessWeek. Before his death in 2012, Bill was the Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, he discusses the evolution, design and life to come of the laptop, the 20 year arch of technology and the meaning of human-centered design. Rest in Peace, Bill, we really miss you.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Bill Moggridge

Erik Spiekermann is author, information architect, type designer (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Unit et al) and author of books and articles on type and typography. He founded MetaDesign, Germany’s largest design firm, in 1979 and is responsible for corporate design programmes for Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen, Lexus, Heidelberg Printing, and Bosch, as well as way-finding projects like Berlin Transit, Düsseldorf Airport and many others. In 1988 he started FontShop (http://fontshop.com), a company for production and distribution of electronic fonts. He is board member of the German Design Council and Past President of the ISTD International Society of Typographic Designers, as well as the IIID International Institute for Informationdesign. 

He now runs Edenspiekermann with offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Stuttgart & San Francisco. In 2001, he redesigned The Economist magazine in London. His book for Adobe Press, Stop Stealing Sheep (http://j.mp/XEZlBv) has been reprinted several times and translated into German, Russian and Italian. His corporate font family for Nokia was released in 2002. In 2003 he received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in Den Haag. His type system DB Type for Deutsche Bahn was awarded the Federal German Design Prize in gold for 2006. In May 2007 he was the first designer to be elected into the Hall of Fame by the European Design Awards for Communication Design.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Erik Spiekermann

John Conant Flansburgh, commonly called Flans or Flansy, is one half of the alternative-rock duo They Might Be Giants (http://www.theymightbegiants.com). In 1982, he co-founded the band with John Linnell, and continues to play a primary role in the duo as a songwriter, singer, and musician. Flansburgh primarily provides lead vocals and guitar for the band in recordings and at live shows, during which he often leads the band and provides frequent banter. Also among Flansburgh's skills are his capabilities as a music video director. He has also directed videos for Harvey Danger, Frank Black, Soul Coughing, and Ben Folds Five. On a less professional level, Flans frequently puts together iMovie slideshow videos for They Might Be Giants songs. These videos, which all feature mostly previously released songs, and are released through TMBG's YouTube channel.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: John Flansburgh

Stefan Sagmeister (http://www.sagmeister.com) is among today’s most important and influential graphic designers. Born in Austria, he has lived and worked in New York since 1993. Renowned for album covers, posters, installations and his recent book of life lessons, Things I have learned in my life so far (http://j.mp/XEYm4u), Sagmeister brings a fresh perspective to the role and work of a designer. In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, he discusses his year away from his New York-based design practice, his personal time in Bali, as well as discussing his new, in-progress documentary film, Happiness.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Stefan Sagmeister

Karl Heiselman is the CEO of Wolff Olins (http://www.wolffolins.com) and the driving force behind the company’s ambition for clients and optimism for the world. He leads the global business by shaping its strategy for growth and encouraging excellence in its creative work. With over 20 years of branding and design experience, Heiselman has helped create game-changing work for Wolff Olins’s clients including (RED), Skype, GE, PwC, Unicef, Current TV, New York City and Mercedes-Benz. He has expanded the company’s capabilities to include product development, brand-centric innovation and creatively led business strategy. Trained as a designer, Heiselman firmly believes in the value of creativity to drive positive business and social impact. Prior to joining Wolff Olins, Heiselman founded the San Francisco–based design studio The Farm, where his clients included Apple, American Express, FedEx, Swatch and HP. Heiselman attended the Rhode Island School of Design and studied graphic and industrial design.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Karl Heiselman

Michael Arad is an architect who moved to New York City from Israel in 1999. At 34, Arad was selected from 5,201 competitors as the winning designer of the World Trade Center Memorial. After a behind-the-scenes war of wills, we now celebrate his vision with a with "Reflecting Absence", a pair of pools set 30 feet deep in the footprints of the downed towers, with cascading waterfalls surrounded by the names of the dead and a "living park" at ground level meant to symbolize life and rebirth.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Michael Arad

Roman Mars is the host of 99% Invisible (http://99percentinvisible.org), a radio show exploring the 99% invisible activity all around us that shapes the design of our world. Produced with support from LUNAR, this is a project of KALW, the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco and the Center for Architecture and Design.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Roman Mars

Jessica Hische (http://jessicahische.is/awesome) is a letterer, illustrator and self-described “avid internetter,” best known for her personal projects Daily Drop Cap (http://www.dailydropcap.com) and the Should I Work for Free flowchart (http://shouldiworkforfree.com). Just five years out of college, she currently serves on the TDC board of Directors and is one of the more accomplished young "designistrators" working today. Her work has been featured in most major American design and illustration publications as well as a few overseas and she’s been named one of Print Magazine’s New Visual Artist (20 under 30) an ADC Young Guns and a GDUSA Person to Watch.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jessica Hische

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

Dominique Browning is a writer, editor and consultant in the newspaper and magazine fields. She has worked with and written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, O, the Oprah magazine, among others. She writes a monthly column about environmental issues for the Environmental Defense Fund website and blogs at SlowLoveLife.com. 

Until November 2007, Browning was the editor-in-chief of House & Garden. Browning is the author of three books: Around the House and In the Garden: a Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement; Paths of Desire: the Passion of a Suburban Gardener; and Slow Love: How I Lost my Job, Put on My Pajamas, & Found Happiness.

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Dominique Browning discusses her tenure as Editor in Chief at House & Garden, her recent book, Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness, and the effects of love on a stuffed animal.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Dominique Browning

James Victore is an artist and designer, whose clients include Moët & Chandon, Target, Amnesty International, the Shakespeare Project, The New York Times, MTV, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Portfolio Center. He has been awarded an Emmy for television animation, a Gold Medal from the Broadcast Designers Association, the Grand Prix from the Brno Biennele (Czech Republic) and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director’s Club. Victore’s posters are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, the Library of Congress and the Museum für Gestaltung among others. He now teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is a member of the AGI. 

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, James Victore discusses his book, Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?, dropping out of SVA, teaching at SVA, putting his opinion in the work, getting a D from Paul Bacon and then apprenticing with him. Practicing cold-calls and the difference between God-jobs and money jobs.
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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: James Victore

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.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Scott Stowell

Jason Kottke is a blogger and developer living in NYC. As editor of kottke.org for the last 14+ years, he’s scoured nearly every corner of the web for juicy links and things for people to read. Jason is also hard at work on Stellar, a web app for tracking and discovering your favorite things online.

In the past, Jason did research on non-crystalline solids, designed websites for people, made a bitmap font called Silkscreen, and experimented online at 0sil8.

Currently, he can be found at his site, on Twitter, and at Stellar.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jason Kottke

Alissa Walker is a design writer and blogger from Los Angeles, California. She is a contributing writer for Fast Company’s new design site, Co.Design, and a contributing editor at GOOD, where she writes the column Design Is a Verb. You can also find her at Dwell, Sunset, Print, The Architect’s Newspaper, LA Weekly, Metropolis, Wired, Design Observer, Core77, Coudal, ReadyMade, Eye, HOW, among others. Her walking guide, City Walks Architecture: New York, published by Chronicle Books is the first in a series of guides. She is also the associate producer of the popular public radio show DnA: Design and Architecture. She blogs at www.gelatobaby.com.

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Alissa Walker discusses, her experience in advertising and how it led her to writing, her love affair with LA, walking, biking, giving up driving and of course, gelato.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Alissa Walker

The Bad Boys of Design: Michael Ian Kaye, Mark Kingsley, Petter Ringbom, James Victore and last but not least, Armin Vit. (03.01.05)

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