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Design Darlings
by Design Darlings
We are two dorks with degrees in design and we wax poetic about everyday objects, fashion, interactions, and all things designed in the world. Our conversations run the gamut from examining that pen in your pocket to questioning whether pressing or percolating coffee produces a better brew. Part persnickety and part pop culture, our hosts keep things keen. So join us as we incite deep dives and invite expert perspectives about all things design, darling.
Episodes
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How Interior Design Trends Spread: From the Renaissance Maker to the YouTube influencer
We've always wanted to peek into other people's homes. In this episode, we trace how mass media turned having the trending paint color or most in-demand decor from something relegated to the elite to an attainable reality of the people. This delirious journey starts with how the Gutenberg press…
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Design Codes: From Louis Vuitton Trunks to Cheesecake Factory Interiors to Coca-Cola Red
From the iconic red square of Coca-Cola to the curvilinear geometry of midcentury furniture, codes define the objects, environments and systems around us. Design codes are what make us instantly recognize a blue box as Tiffany's, or associate a gargantuan menu and a cacophony of interior design...
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Lights, Camera, Design: Production and Costume Design
This week we’re getting stitched into the world of theatre with CS Fergusson-Vaux, a theatre and installation artist whose work moves fluidly between costume, set, and performance art. We start with Shakespeare and trace the histories hiding in every hemline and well-placed pearl. Fergie talks to...
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Design Culture Catchup: The Odyssey, Couture Dressing, Political Design and World Cup Iconography
This summer has been scorching, and the design discourse has been no cooler. In this episode, we're serving up a menu of design tapas: an artistic amuse-bouche, a cinematic charcuterie board, and a little bit of everything in between as we catch up on the biggest design stories of the past few...
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When did Summer get Branded?
The postwar ‘50s saw TVs proliferate into every American home—and the ad dollars followed. As media flooded American living rooms, ad dollars poured right in after them — advertising spend nearly quintupled from the 1950s into the ’60s. Branded summers and ideal living were packaged and purchased...
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Mirrors on the Dance Floor: How the Disco Ball Illuminated a Revolution
In this episode, we trace the disco ball from 1920s jazz clubs where it scattered light equally across every dancing body, through fifty years of obscurity, to its resurrection in the 1970s alongside a revolution in music technology—the synthesizer, the drum machine, the extended 12-inch...
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Analog Nostalgia and a Liminal Longing for 90s Design
We’re living in a moment where recent history feels lost but still recoverable. The 90s are close enough to feel familiar, and distant enough to feel like a mirage in the desert of all things digital. Turning away from the endless algorithmic feeds, we long for that era of the last genuine analog...
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Wine About Design
Wine has always been two things at once: what's in the bottle and everything around it. In this episode of Design Darlings, we uncork the full design story of wine. Our guest Matthew Stebenne is a product-developer-slash-sommelier who brings rare fluency in both design craft and what's actually…
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Fashion is Art, Design, and Media Machine
Fashion is a cultural phenomenon. A mix of design, photography, style, and setting, a garment isn't just an isolated confabulation of fabric — it's an experience, an aspiration, a mini movie in a single snap. This episode uses the Met Gala and the long-awaited Devil Wears Prada 2 to interrogate...
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The Cult of Big Water Bottle and the Design of Hydration
Over the millennia, our humble water bottle had a serious glow-up. The modern metal tumbler is an innovation in thermodynamics that you tote from the farmers market to your freeway commute. But somewhere between the Stanley craze and the Hydro Flask wars, this utilitarian object became a full-on...
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Maker and Machine: The History Behind Design's Most Dramatic Relationship
From the steam-powered chaos of the 18th century to the silicon-fueled frenzy of the digital age, humans have always met technological upheaval with the same cocktail of terror, wonder, and remarkable adaptation. Each industrial revolution didn’t just rewire economies — it rewired identities,...
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Design Grind: The Aesthetics of Coffee House Culture
This week our hosts discuss a caffeinated story arc covering early 2000s coffee houses to the design-ification of coffee hustle vibes. Did the social media girl boss grind aesthetic hijack the formerly cozy couch setting of your favorite spot? Are we coming full circle with a return to the book...
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Light My Fire: How Objects of Function become Markers of Identity
Can something as functional as fire have design? This episode asks how the invention of matches and lighters sparked from a basic necessity–like lighting candles, lamps, and tobacco– into statements of self expression. Join the discussion as we examine how lighters and candles expanded beyond...
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It’s Design, Darling
This first episode introduces our podcast premise, our hosts, and posits the big question- what IS design? We consider the 4 orders of design and their place in brand development, while also considering how human cultures developed the original modes of design. Listen for fun and insights from…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We are two dorks with degrees in design and we wax poetic about everyday objects, fashion, interactions, and all things designed in the world. Our conversations run the gamut from examining that pen in your pocket to questioning whether pressing or percolating coffee produces a better brew. Part persnickety and part pop culture, our hosts keep things keen. So join us as we incite deep dives and invite expert perspectives about all things design, darling.
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Design Darlings
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We are two dorks with degrees in design and we wax poetic about everyday objects, fashion, interactions, and all things designed in the world. Our conversations run the gamut from examining that pen in your pocket to questioning whether pressing or percolating coffee produces a better brew. Part...
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