Episodes
Introducing The Design of Business | The Business of Design minisode co hosts, Kaleena Sales and Omari Souza. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
Published 06/14/22
Season ten of the The Design of Business | The Business of Design returns with new hosts Dana Arnett and Kevin Bethune! To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
Published 06/07/22
While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here's the first episode from the new season of The Futures Archive. So what are the relationships between design and pleasure? And how can we design the most pleasurable experiences? Lee Moreau and Rachel Lehrer discuss the disco ball and the importance of embodied design with additional insights from Änne Söll, Nadine Hubbs, Gary Hunt, and David Rose. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of...
Published 03/29/22
While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here's an episode from our archives that you might not have heard yet, with an introduction from your new co-hosts, Dana Arnett and Kevin Bethune. Kevin's new book "Reimagining Design" is out later this month from MIT Press. The Design of Business | The Business of Design will return with new episodes this spring. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple...
Published 03/08/22
While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here's an episode from our archives that you might not have heard yet. Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering. When we spoke with her in 2019, she talked about her work at the intersection of art, engineering, accessibility, and motherhood. Sara is also one of the co-hosts of season two of The Futures Archive which will be released in March...
Published 02/22/22
While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here's an episode from our archives that you might not have heard yet. Dmitri Siegel is vice president of global brand at Sonos. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
Published 02/08/22
While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here's an episode from our archives that you might not have heard yet. Caroline Wanga is the Chief Executive Officer of Essence Communications Inc. When we spoke with her in 2019, she talked about her work in her role as chief culture, diversity, and inclusion officer and vice president of human resources at Target. Also, this was the first episode of Ellen McGirt’s co-hosting. Ellen just announced her...
Published 01/04/22
While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here’s an episode from our archives that you might not have heard yet. Forest Young is the Sr. Director of Global Brand design at Rivian. When we spoke to him back in 2018 he talked about his work at Wolff Olins with Uber. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
Published 12/21/21
The Design of Business | The Business of Design will be back with season 10 and new hosts soon! In the mean time, we think you might like the newest podcast from Design Observer: The Futures Archive. Our new podcast looks at the history of human-centered design with a critical eye to its future. We'd love for you to subscribe, and you can do so at Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app. Do you remember when you learned to brush your teeth? On this episode of The Futures Archive Lee...
Published 11/02/21
Jessica and Ellen listen back to highlights from Season 9, and hand off hosting duties to Dana Arnett and Kevin Bethune, who will be taking over in Season 10.
Published 10/19/21
Avery Willis Hoffman is a writer, director, producer and curator. Hoffman recently joined Brown University as the inaugural artistic director of the Brown Arts Institute.
Published 10/05/21
Quemuel Arroyo is the first ever chief accessibility officer at the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Published 09/21/21
Deborah Willis is an artist, curator, and a professor at New York University. Her most recent book is The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.
Published 09/07/21
Jan Diehm is a journalist at Polygraph and The Pudding.
Published 08/24/21
Lotenna Enwonwu is the global executive creative director at Coursera.
Published 08/10/21
Check out the first episode of Connect 4: Design Bridges, a new show about mentorship from Design Observer and Connect 4: Networking for Equality in Design. On this episode, creative director Jonathan Jackson talks with Avalon Garrick, a design student at Mercy College. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the Connect 4: Design Bridges feed wherever you get your podcasts or check them out at https://designobserver.com/podcast-connect4.php The Design of Business | The Business of Design...
Published 08/03/21
Elizabeth Hargrave is an American game designer whose games include Wingspan, Mariposas, and Tussie Mussie.
Published 07/20/21
Lucia Lucas is a baritone who made her U.S. debut in 2019 at Tulsa Opera as Don Giovanni.
Published 07/06/21
Na Kim is an associate creative director at the book publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Published 06/22/21
Astra Taylor is an artist, activist, and founder of the Rolling Jubilee and the Debt Collective. Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions.
Published 06/08/21
Melanie Keen is the director of Wellcome Collection.
Published 05/25/21
Emmy-award winner Ellen Mirojnick has designed film costumes since the 1980s and most recently is the lead costume designer for the Netflix series Bridgerton.
Published 05/11/21
Nikil Saval is a Pennsylvania state senator and the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.
Published 12/29/20
Allissa V. Richardson is a journalist and an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.
Published 12/22/20
Rosanne Somerson is president of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Published 12/15/20