Design Matters: Ping Zhu
Transcript Debbie Millman: If I have to describe Ping Zhu’s distinctive style of illustration, I could pile on the adjectives. Painterly comes to mind, bold and colorful, funny, cute, especially her...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Jonny Sun
Transcript Debbie Millman: Here are a few things to know about Jonny Sun: Jonny is spelled without an ‘h,’ he’s Canadian, he has a master’s degree in architecture, and he’s a doctoral candidate at MIT....
View ArticleDesign Matters From the Archive: Miranda July
Transcript Debbie Millman: It hardly matters what medium she’s working in. It could be film, it could be fiction, it could be digital media or performance art. Whatever it is, you always know it’s work...
View ArticleDesign Matters From the Archive: Bisa Butler
Transcript Debbie Millman: I could say Bisa Butler is a fiber artist, and I wouldn’t be wrong. Her work is made of quilted textiles. But it’s saying that Jackson Pollock worked in paint. Bisa Butler...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Carly Kuhn
Transcript Debbie Millman: If you smush the word sartorialist together with cartoonist and add a dash of artist, what do you get? Well, you get Carly Kuhn, that’s what. Carly Kuhn is The Cartorialist....
View ArticleDesign Matters: Catherine Opie
Transcript Debbie Millman: Catherine Opie is one of the most preeminent artists of her generation and has made some of the most indelible images of our time. Her intimate photographic portraits of...
View ArticleBest of Design Matters: Deborah Kass
Artist Deborah Kass joins to talk about her extraordinary career, examining the interactions of politics, pop culture, art history, and identity within a Pop art sensibility. Speaker 1: Design Matters...
View ArticleBest of Design Matters: Karen Finley
Karen Finley reflects on her legendary performance pieces, censorship and decades of groundbreaking work—and the sheer joy in creating art. Debbie Millman: Most political art doesn’t change much....
View ArticleDesign Matters: Richard Tuttle
Saleem Reshamwala: Hi, I’m Saleem Reshamwala, host of a podcast called Far Flung, from TED. In each episode, I’ll take you to a new place across the globe to get lost in a new vibe and tap into...
View ArticleBest of Design Matters: Michael Stipe
Debbie Millman: When Michael Stipe was the lead singer and lyricist for the band R.E.M, it was clear he had talents and interests beyond music. He was deeply involved in crafting the album covers and...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Dario Calmese
Debbie Millman: So this month’s theme for Creative Mornings is abundance. And Milton Glaser once said, “If you perceive the universe as one of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Carey Lowell
Debbie Millman: Carey Lowell has spent a lot of her life in front of a camera. First as a model in the 1980s for designers, including Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. Then as an actor. She played Bond...
View ArticleBest of Design Matters: Mickalene Thomas
Debbie Millman: Black women are front and center in the work of Mickalene Thomas. They’re lying on couches, sitting on chairs, sometimes nude, other times clothed and brilliant patterns or glittering...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran
Debbie Millman:Astrophysics has proved we had the Big Bang and there are black holes and undulating space time and all manner of nearly unimaginable phenomena. But what do these things look like? We...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers:This is the first time that we are aware of all other groups, all other cultures, really, truly. And we are also aware of everything that is happening everywhere at once...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Stefan Sagmeister
Debbie Millman:Welcome to Creative Mornings. I’m Debbie Millman, and today I am conducting a live episode of Design Matters with one of the most acclaimed designers of our time, Stefan Sagmeister....
View ArticleBest of Design Matters: Futura
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View ArticleDesign Matters: Suleika Jaouad
Debbie Millman:When Suleika Jaouad was a young woman, she wanted to be a foreign correspondent. That career plan was upended by a cancer diagnosis when she was 22 years old. But in spite of being told...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Es Devlin
Debbie Millman:In 2003, the artist Es Devlin’s career took a turn. She’d already made her name as a theater designer where her conceptual and sculptural stage designs had long impressed the London...
View ArticleDesign Matters: Nell Irvin Painter
Debbie Millman:Sometimes you can tell a lot about writers from the names of their books. Here are three titles by Nell Irvin Painter, Southern History Across the Color Line, Creating Black Americans:...
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