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Design Matters with Debbie Millman is one of the world’s very first podcasts. Broadcasting independently for over 15 years, the show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives.
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Renowned portrait photographer Platon and acclaimed designer, editor, and filmmaker Scott Dadich have spent more than 25 years collaborating to create some of the most compelling imagery in contemporary culture. Part one of their conversation focuses on Platon's journey from a childhood in Greece to photographing some of the world's most powerful figures and the human stories behind his portraits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Acclaimed costume designer Debra McGuire has helped shape some of television and film's most iconic looks, from Friends and The Morning Show to Anchorman and Idiocracy. She joins to discuss her remarkable journey through art, fashion, and Hollywood, the creative collaborations that shaped her career, and her new book, Dressing the Story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Craig Elimeliah—Chief Creative Officer of the global creative and technology agency Code and Theory—is a creative leader whose work has pushed the boundaries of design, technology, advertising, and culture. He joins to discuss his unconventional path into design, the early days of the internet, and how artificial intelligence is reshaping creativity, authorship, and the future of design. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Françoise Mouly—legendary longtime art editor of The New Yorker and co-founder of the groundbreaking comics magazine RAW—has helped transform the possibilities of comics, illustration, and visual storytelling. She joins to discuss her career shaping more than three decades of New Yorker covers, why the future of art still depends on human curiosity and lived experience, and her new book, The New Yorker: From Cover to Cover. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ada Limón—24th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of seven poetry books, including The Carrying and Bright Dead Things—joins to discuss her new book, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, her childhood between two homes, her deep sensitivity to the natural world, and how poetry became a way to make sense of life’s strangeness, loss, and love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kim Hastreiter—co-founder and longtime editor of Paper magazine—joins to reflect on a life at the center of downtown New York’s art, fashion, and nightlife, from scrappy newsprint beginnings to the cover that “broke the internet.” She also discusses her memoir, Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos, and why artists must document culture before it’s rewritten. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of The Chronology of Water, Reading the Waves, and The Big M, and a writer whose work blurs genre to explore themes of memory, embodiment, grief, and transformation. She joins to discuss her childhood, her early life as a competitive swimmer, the film adaptation of The Chronology of Water directed by Kristen Stewart, and how storytelling can reshape the narratives we carry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
For over sixty years, Gloria Steinem has been at the center of American culture and political life, where she has been instrumental in shaping our ideas about feminism, humanity, and equal rights for all people. She joins to talk about her legendary career as an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, co-founder of one of the most significant magazines of the 21st century, and an activist whose work has impacted the place women and girls now have in the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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