Design Matters will return on October 13th with thirteen new episodes airing every Monday on Design Observer. Host Debbie Millman continues her pursuit of interviewing the world’s most creative designers, thinkers, writers, and cultural commentators on her popular podcast. Design Matters can boast over one million downloads, and is the recipient of a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. In the nine years since its inception, Millman has interviewed more than 250 design luminaries and cultural figures, including Massimo Vignelli, Milton Glaser, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Barbara Kruger, and Seth Godin.
This season’s outstanding line-up includes Tom Geismar, legendary designer at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv; Michael Graves, renowned architect and designer; Justin Ahrens, designer, writer, educator; Moira Cullen, design strategist, writer, educator; Chee Pearlman, designer, writer, editor, producer, curator, and educator; Emily Spivak, writer and curator; Petter Ringbom, designer, art director, filmmaker, and educator; Liz Danzico, designer, writer, educator; writer and journalist Ben Schott; director of the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Caroline Baumann; Ji Lee, designer and educator; Tina and Ryan Essmaker, designers, photographers, creative directors, and co-founders of
The Great Discontent; and Fritz Karch, stylist, editor, creative director, writer, and collector
You can listen to weekly, and to the entire archive of Design Matters, on
Design Observer,
iTunes, and
SoundCloud.