PODCAST · arts
Context
by Advanced Design
A podcast space where laid back conversations on design, life, and everything in-between happen.
Episodes
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096 - Family & Legacy
Jonathan is a hardware and experience designer based in Toronto, Ontario. After 5 years of working in San Francisco as a core part of frog's industrial design team, Jonathan moved to Canada in early 2020 to pursue a new adventure with e-commerce powerhouse, Shopify. His experience as a design...
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095 - Office for Product Design
For today’s episode, we welcome the leaders behind the Office for Product Design. Nicol Boyd began his training in design at the Glasgow School of Art. After completing his undergraduate degree in 1999 he moved to Italy to work for Alessi, where he developed products for among others Achille...
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094 - The Business of Design
Gavin Ivester is a hybrid product and brand leader with roots in Silicon Valley industrial design and extensive European lifestyle and tech experience. He specializes in driving profitable, responsible growth through the power of design and brand. Gavin recently exited the role of VP Design at…
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093 - Design Matters
Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters. As the founder and host of Design Matters, one of the...
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092 - School for Experiential Education in Design
There are too many barriers to accessing the education and experience required to become a footwear designer in the sports industry. Rather than waiting on higher education to solve some of those obstacles, we created a solution to this problem by building a new pathway for creators to pursue a...
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091 - System of Thought
Samantha is a multidisciplinary visual artist and designer from Humboldt Park, Chicago. She has a BA in Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago with a minor in Arts Business. Since 2019 she has worked independently as an installation artist, fabricator, graphic designer, and illustrator, with a...
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090 - An Engineer's Life
Fran Wang is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has been at frog for the last 4 years. Prior, she worked at New Deal Design and Skycatch, a UAV startup. As the Associate Director of Mechanical Engineering at frog, she has had the unique opportunity to work on interdisciplinary teams designing...
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089 - Awe & Curiosity
Andi Osana is an industrial designer and aspiring toy designer from the Philippines. She graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Design from De La Salle-College of St. Benilde, being most inspired by dinosaurs, comic books, and popular culture. She values a childlike playfulness and curiosity in her...
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088 - Blond
James Melia, founder and director of award-winning Blond design studio. Since 2015, Melia’s London based, strategic industrial design firm Blond has been the go-to brain trust that innovative global brands like Sony, LG, Revolut and Rapha keep in their rolodex for when they need a product to...
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087 - Los Objects
With roots in Mexico and the United States, an idea to combine these two identities was born from the need to express ourselves and our points of view through functional objects that we share everyday life with. Los Objects is a brand dedicated to the exploration of ideas through physical…
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086 - Business & Education
Our next guest is Jeffrey Jones, an LA based freelance industrial designer and professor with over a decade of experience developing mobile consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets, smartwatches and fitness bands. From 2008-2012 Jeff worked at Samsung’s Mobile Design Lab in Los Angeles,...
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085 - Polarizing Objects
We welcome Spencer Nugent back to our platform to talk about objects that we find polarizing. We question why we’re so attracted to brands that take risks to produce products that have us talking; such as the Tesla Cybertruck or the Playstation 5. Is this on purpose, or is this truly innovation?…
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084 - Life Lessons
Our next guest is Chris Granneberg, an Industrial Designer based in LA. Chris studied Industrial Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NYC where he graduated in 2004. Soon after graduating Chris joined Karim Rashid's studio in NYC where he was promoted to Product Director in 2009 managing the...
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083 - The Good Things About Hard Things
Our next guest is Spencer Nugent, where we dive into a conversation about the good things about hard things. In the age of instant gratification and intelligent tools, there’s value to taking the long, slow road when creating great things. With these new tools and platforms, ease of production…
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082 - Studiocult
Our next guest is Yuliya Veligurskaya, the Creative Director of Studiocult, based in New York City. Studiocult is a brand specializing in clever jewelry, and accessories. All of the pieces are inspired by everyday objects and crumbs of shared memories. Guaranteed to turn some heads, their...
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081 - Creative Session
Our next guests are the brothers, Hoang & Anh who founded Creative Session, a design blog dedicated to ideas between the two. Currently, they head design at Playground building brands and products. Playground is a venture firm that partners with entrepreneurs working at the intersection of atoms,...
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080 - Pleasures in Design
Our next guest is Anna Lee, is a technical co-founder of Lioness, the women-led sexual health startup that built the world's first and only smart vibrator that improves understanding of sexual pleasure and body through biofeedback data, recently featured at CES 2020, a finalist at Last Gadget...
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079 - Food Design
Our next guest is Amanda Huynh, a Canadian product and food designer working at the intersections of community-building, social innovation, and sustainable design. Amanda’s design career has allowed her to work across a variety of sectors in Vancouver, Bali, Shanghai, and London. Amanda earned a...
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078 - Leap of Faith
Our next guest is Jo Barnard, the founder and creative director of multi award-winning design and innovation consultancy Morrama. Having set up Morrama in 2015, just one year after graduating, she has worked with startups across the globe bringing a range of products to market from tech to…
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077 - Design Legacy
Our next guest is Robert Brunner, who founded San Francisco-based design studio Ammunition in 2007 to communicate ideas through products, brands, and their surrounding experiences. His work as an industrial designer has spawned numerous brand-defining designs over the past three decades. Prior to...
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076 - Navigating Rough Sea
Our next guest is Ara Acle, a Bay Area native currently based in Oakland, CA. After graduating from San Jose State University, Ara spent some time at many of the top San Francisco design consultancies including Mike & Maaike, One & Co, and New Deal Design. He also spent 4 years at Frog where he...
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075 - Growing through Design
Our next guest is Timothy Seward, the Lead Industrial Designer at Bird. He has been one of the key influencers in advancing the process of Industrial Design by blending multiple disciplines from ID to Motion over the past decade working with top design firms like Y-Studios, Lunar, Huge, and...
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074 - The End of The Semester
Our next guest is Professor Stephen Melamed, an industrial designer and design educator at the University of Illinois at Chicago; he’s Clinical Professor & Founding Chair of the Industrial Design program at UIC. With over four decades of design experience in consulting, manufacturing, corporate,...
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073 - Purpose of Design
Our next guest is William Stuart, the Design Director of Industrial Design at Fuseproject for the last 7 years, which spans disciplines across product, packaging and accessory programs for clients in multiple categories. Clients he has worked with include Western Digital, iRobot, Coway, Vodafone,...
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072 - Starchitect’s Next Frontier
Our next guest is Natalia McLean, the Head of Design at leading Ecuadorian architectural development firm, Uribe Schwarzkopf. Based in the vibrant city of Quito, Natalia brings an encyclopedic knowledge of interior design to luxury residential projects throughout the city. Uribe Schwarzkopf is...
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071 - Nothing is Impossible
Our next guest is Yanci Wu, a product designer who wanders at the intersection of art and science, stories and realities. She’s an observer, thinker, and maker. Yanci uses strategic thinking to bring clarity to situations and design thinking to bring solutions to life. She thrives at solving...
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070 - Designing Toys!
Our next guest is Rinn Hirotsu, a big nerd who likes to have big fun! She’s a Creative Product Designer with experience in toys and games, currently working at Hasbro. Rinn is an enthusiastic collaborator with a Bachelor's degree focused on Transportation, Industrial, and Product Design from the...
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069 - Design Discourse
Our next guest is Spencer Nugent, this interview takes us back to last year, June of 2020 to be exact, one of the first conversations prior to building Offsite. Spencer is the founder of idsketching.com and sketch-a-day.com. His experience includes working at General Motors in Warren, Michigan…
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068 - Mona Sharma
Our next guest is Mona Sharma, an Industrial Designer based out of the UK. She’s a designer interested in creating products that are honest, simple and enjoyable. Mona seeks opportunities to experiment with manufacturing techniques, whilst tapping into user perceptions - always with the ambition…
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067 - Interning & Growth
Our next guest is David Miller, a recent graduate from the Industrial Design program at the University of Cincinnati, DAAP. David has moved 26 times since starting college, and worked for some of the best Industrial Design studios in the world along the way, but these days you can find him...
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066 - Design Truth
We interview the team behind Design Truth - our friends across the pond! Design Truth is a small organization based in London, their objective is to keep Industrial Design connected through their podcasts and live webinars. Design Truth is organized by Brad Harper, who’s an industrial design...
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065 - The Offsite Experience
As we continue our interviews with Offsite students, we are excited to interview the next batch of Offsite alumni. Our first cohort was a careful selection of 52 skilled students representing over 10 different countries on every continent, except for Antarctica. This is by no mistake. There are…
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064 - Community & Education
As we continue our interviews with Offsite students, we are excited to interview the next batch of Offsite alumni. The students include Morgan Wolfe, Maria Mu, Joshua Hoffeld, and Chris Ference - all student designers who tuned in from different parts of the world to be part of this design...
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063 - Why Offsite?
Our next guests are a group of design students who attended Offsite’s first cohort. The students include German Monetti, Henry Ripley, Taylor Mau, and Olive Kennington - all student designers who tuned in from different parts of the world to be part of this design experience. For this episode…
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062 - Betsy Barnhart
The conversation continues! We are interviewing Betsy Barnhart, the Program Director of Industrial Design at the University of Kansas. Betsy is focused on providing a connection between academic institutions and private practice to tackle large-scale, complex design problems. Prior to joining KU,...
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061 - Matt Marchand
Our next guest is Matt Marchand, currently developing outdoor gear as an Industrial Designer with Dick's Sporting Goods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is passionate about an innovative incorporation of physics and philosophy into products. There is a lot to do, and he is thankful to be a part of...
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060 - Hannah Fink
Our next guest is Hannah Fink, a San Francisco-based designer with a background in metal and woodworking. Her process is rooted in exploring form through physical model making and prototyping. A recent graduate of Pratt Institute’s MID program, she draws her inspiration from her former scuba…
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059 - Danielle Chen
Our next guest is Danielle Chen, a Senior UX Designer at EY Design Studio where she creates user-centered, intuitive and delightful experiences across different industries including insurance, finance, and government services, etc. She considers play as an essential part of learning and creating...
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058 - Bengt Brummer
Our next guest is Bengt Brummer, a Senior Industrial Designer at Google. He was born in Germany and spent his childhood in both Sweden and Germany in a bilingual family. After training and working as a chef in various countries in Europe and the US and earning a BFA in the Culinary Arts from…
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057 - VOX Ventilator
Our next guests are Jeremiah Robison, Founder and CEO at CIONIC and Daniel Zarem, a Senior Industrial Designer at Fuseproject - who both worked on the VOX Ventilator. Fuseproject, in partnership with CIONIC, a medical device and technology start-up, and several independent mechanical engineering...
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055 - Liana Thomson
Our next guest Liana Thomson, an Accessories Product Developer at EQ3 where she leads design for the brand’s tabletop, decorative, and other accessories. In addition to her role in developing accessories for EQ3, Liana leads the packaging task force, working to ensure EQ3’s packaging standards…
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056 - Jeff Smith
Our next guest Jeff Smith, an industrial designer and Cloud Adoption Specialist at Autodesk. Jeff has a rich product design and development history, and prior to joining Autodesk, he worked for more than 20 years as design director of Reflex Design, Inc. - a Florida based consulting group serving…
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054 - Design is Political
Once in a while, someone tells us to shut up about politics. If you want to avoid trouble, stay away from politics. Politics is a hot potato. You can’t sell things to people that are disagree with you. But then again, what is wrong with an industrial designer going out and taking a stand for...
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053 - Matt Carr
Our next guest is Matt Carr, VP of Design at Umbra. Matt is an integral part of the Umbra design team since 2001, Matt has contributed countless designs to their product line. His work has been featured multiple times in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, Surface Magazine, I.D Magazine, Met...
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052 - Dave Joseph
Our next guest is Dave Joseph, an Industrial Designer who is a material fanatic, design thinker and all-around wonderful human being. Dave comes from a long line of product designers and entrepreneurs. It really is in his blood. Making significant contributions to product design across many…
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051 - Josh Owen
Our next guest is design educator Josh Owen, a Distinguished Professor and Director of Industrial Design at The Rochester Institute of Technology. Josh is also an award winning, internationally renowned industrial designer and author. His studio’s work is produced by significant manufacturers in...
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050 - Brittany Pierone
Our next guest is Brittany Pierone, the designer behind DI PIERONI, a luxury goods brand grounded in high taste. With a focus on utility and minimalism, these fashion necessities are premium and functional for life and travel. The brand seeks to speak to culture and timeless aesthetics and be...
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049 - Howard Nuk
SQ1 2019 SPECIAL: Our next guest is Howard Nuk, a Canadian industrial designer, entrepreneur, inventor, speaker, and co-founder of Palm Ventures Group, Inc. Born in Toronto, Canada, he lived there until his family moved to Ottawa at the age of 11. Nuk studied Industrial Design at Carleton...
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048 - Sean Miller
SQ1 2019 SPECIAL: Our next guest is Sean Miller, a Design Team Leader in Industrial Design and Soft Goods at COSMO. Sean is looking to collaborate with other inspiring and talented people to share experiences with while building something great. As a designer he believes design is a necessity in...
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047 - Sean Missal
SQ1 2019 SPECIAL: Our next guest is Sean Missal, a Lead Designer at Astro Studios. Sean comes from Western Washington University where he earned his Bachelor Degree in Industrial Design. Born in the 90s, Sean is truly a child of the tech age. Sean interned at Astro before he was snatched up...
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