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Fascinating People: Design Matters

Debbie Millman of Design MattersSeason Five of Debbie Millman’s podcast Design Matters resumed with Jessica Helfland as this week’s guest. Jessica, a highly successful designer with a seriously heavyweight portfolio and currently Senior Critic at Yale School of Art’s graduate program in graphic design, offers insight into her recently released book from Yale Press titled Scrapbooks An American History, named best coffee table book of the year by the New York Times. She was also one of the founders of the blog Design Observer. Just one of the many fascinating people Debbie features on Design Matters.

If, by chance, you’re like me and don’t have an iTunes account, the audio is also available on Modovox. I generally download them from the modovox link onto my desktop and listen in Windows Media Player. I’m such a caveman – no iPod, no iPhone, no Facebook account, and I don’t Twitter. OK on with the story…

If you go to Modovox have a quick read through the Content Library pane – Stefan Zagmeister, Chip Kidd, Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Ellen Lupton, Hillman Curtis, Steve Heller, Barbara Kruger and many more. Design Matters follows the format of a very alluring introspective monologue from Debbie, always deeply insightful in itself, followed by an informal discussion with the current guest (or guests). This show introduced me to a number of design inspirations, most notably the ever-talented Chip Kidd – book cover designer extroadinaire, etcetera, etcetera.

With 45,000 podcast downloads each month this has been on my favourites list for several seasons and I have to confess I’ve downloaded and listened to every episode in retrospect. Design Matters has also opened my eyes to new possibilities and as you’ll see by my regular photography posts there is more to life than coding. Right? Don’t forget to check it out.

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2 Responses to “Fascinating People: Design Matters”

  1. Matt Robin

    January 15th, 2009 at 2:38 am

    You don’t use iTunes?!! :o

    Off-topic: I don’t have an iPod or iPhone either (iPhone might happen at some point, maybe). Facebook: yes. Twitter: yes (but I’m not really using it much).

    Back on topic: I’m already an rss subscriber of ‘Design Observer’ – but I’m not familiar with Jessica Helfland, Debbie Millman, or Design Matters, so I should take a look at these. Cheers Steven.

  2. steven

    January 15th, 2009 at 8:09 am

    Ha ha another caveman after my own heart. For some reason, no matter how I set up this computer iTunes completely trashes it… I’m having the same issue with Skype, too. Only iTunes is worse. If it’s installed I have to format and reinstall everything from scratch because the next day my PC shows about 1,000 fixes on booting and the next boot it’s game over… no boot. So I miss out. Lindy’s PC is the iTunes one :)

    Ahh you’re definately missing something if you’re not listening to Design Matters.

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