»It was a way of life, of transferring into the world of the western home the culture of rock music, travel and a certain excess«. As a member of the influential Memphis Group, Nathalie Du Pasquier broke new ground in the design world of the 1980s. Through her unruly aesthetic and iconic designs she challenged good taste and the idea that design’s main purpose was to be functional, or in Nathalie’s own words »Form didn’t have to follow function, a telephone could have the shape of a...

»Redesigning The Business of Advertising.« Want to know how you can own the future of advertising? Cindy Gallop, former chairman BBH New York and founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld & MakeLoveNotPorn shares her highly subjective, provocative and challenging perspectives on how to redesign the business to fit you, not the other way round; the business model of the future; how big data translates into big opportunity; why the future is not about advertising units, but advertising...

»As a Body Architect I’ve created a limitless and boundless platform for me to discover whatever I want.« Lucy McRae is an Australian artist blurring the lines between fashion, technology and the body. As the world’s first and only »Body Architect« (a title she made up for herself during a job interview) she invents and builds structures on the skin that re-shape the human silhouette. Her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful creations suggests a new breed; a future human archetype...

»I want the The Gentlewoman to be a bit like a club for amazing women – the women that are in it, and the women that read it.« Penny Martin is the brilliant Editor in Chief of the biannual magazine The Gentlewoman. When asked to describe her vision for the magazine she says »we wanted it to be an intelligent magazine for women with really high quality, and by intelligent I mean treating and representing women respectfully.« Penny Martin came from the worlds of curation and academia before...

This is a podcast about the italian designer Lella Vignelli. Interviewed is her now late design partner and husband Massimo. »If you can design one thing, you can design everything.« The Italian architect and designer Lella Vignelli has turned her hand to every kind of project, from furniture, interiors, showrooms and exhibitions to product design, silverware and clothing. In the beginning of the 1960s she established the Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in Milan together with her...

Janet Froelich, is creative director at Real Simple, a magazine with two million subscribers. Before this she was the art director and creative director at The New York Times Magazine for over two decades. The New York Times Magazine is one of the world’s most beautifully designed newspaper publications and, with its supplements, one of the most awarded magazines of our time. Or like her friend Steven Heller puts it: »In short, she’s the art director’s art director – and that is visible to...

Hall of Femmes highlights outstanding women within design. In episode #1, Ika Johanesson interviews Ruth Ansel, legendary art director and designer. Ansel has been the art director of Harper’s Bazaar (1960s), The New York Times Magazine (1970s) and Vanity Fair (1980s). Each time she was the first woman to hold that position. In the early 1990s, she formed her own design studio. She designed such notable books as The Sixties by Richard Avedon, Women and The White Oak Dance Project by Annie...