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Design in Mind

by Arkitektura Assembly

Design In Mind sits down with today's leading designers and design thinkers for a candid conversation about their life, their work and how they have come to see the world. Here, we get a chance to delve more deeply into the creative mind of these important designers and, through that, better understand the world we live in. Design in Mind is an extension of a series of live events in San Francisco called Arkitektura Assembly where designers of all disciplines come and share their work and ideas with the vibrant San Francisco creative community. For more information on the series, please visit assembly.arksf.com

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Episodes

  1. DESIGN IN MIND: Patricia Urquiola

    Born in Spain and rooted in Italy, Patricia always had aspirations to become an architect and designer.

  2. DESIGN IN MIND: Jay Osgerby

    Jay Osgerby’s industrial design career has been defined by a deep-seated appetite for experimentation, beginning with his childhood years building fireworks in the shed of his family’s countryside home.

  3. DESIGN IN MIND: Hella Jongerius

    Hella Jongerius approaches design with the analytic intensity of a scientist. Every design is a manifestation of a well-researched hypothesis…

  4. DESIGN IN MIND: Nacho Carbonell

    When you look at Nacho Carbonell’s work, you’re taken into another world. His works are tactile and intimate, alive and engaging.

  5. DESIGN IN MIND: Studio Job

    Job Smeets was a star student at Design Academy Eidhoven when he graduated in 1996. Belgian in origin, he went […]

  6. DESIGN IN MIND: Paul Cocksedge

    Paul Cocksedge Studio creates wide ranging designs but the through line is a sense of it being made for the people to engage with.

  7. DESIGN IN MIND: Humberto Campana

    The Campana Brothers have been making their indelible mark furniture design for nearly three decades.

  8. DESIGN IN MIND: Space Copenhagen

    Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou have been working together and been inspired by each other since they met in University over 20 years ago.

  9. DESIGN IN MIND: Konstantin Grcic

    Like all the people we speak with on Design in Mind, Konstantin Grcic is one of the very best designers making work today.

  10. DESIGN IN MIND: Gaetano Pesce — Part 2

    Part 2 with Gaetano Pesce's–one of the most important designers of the 20th and 21st century.

  11. DESIGN IN MIND: Gaetano Pesce

    Gaetano Pesce is one of the most important designers of the 20th and 21st century. His designs are unparalleled in their exploration of color, material and form.

  12. DESIGN IN MIND: Matteo Thun

    Matteo Thun is one of today’s most well respected architects. His firm, Matteo Thun and Partners, has a diverse range of work all over the world.

  13. DESIGN IN MIND: Maira Kalman

    If you read the New Yorker, there is a very high probability you have come across Maira Kalman’s work.

  14. DESIGN IN MIND: Jehs + Laub

    Jehs and Laub, the dynamic design duo working out of Stuttgart, Germany but recognized worldwide, make no compromises.

  15. DESIGN IN MIND: Christophe Pillet

    Christophe Pillet’s initial passions lay in music and he came to design almost happenstance.

  16. DESIGN IN MIND: Ross Lovegrove

    In this interview, we speak about his inspirations, the importance, and challenge, of staying true to yourself and how great design comes from many long moments of staring off into space.

  17. DESIGN IN MIND: George Beylerian

    George Beylerian has been many things—a curator, a collector, an entrepreneur—but perhaps the title he feels most comfortable with, the one that describes what is at the heart of all that he has done, is merchant.

  18. DESIGN IN MIND: Max Lamb

    Designer and artist Max Lamb is one of today’s most adventurous and intriguing creatives.

  19. DESIGN IN MIND: Neri & Hu

    Neri & Hu cannot be pinned down. From architecture to objects, interiors to installations, Neri & Hu are one of the most well respected designers today.

  20. DESIGN IN MIND: Ingo Maurer

    We speak of his initial love for light, the films and artists that inspire him and his commitment to not making compromises.

  21. DESIGN IN MIND: John Maeda

    In the inaugural episode of our Design In Mind podcast, we speak with John Maeda. We explore his family roots, how meditation has kept him balanced, and the importance of trying it all.

  22. DESIGN IN MIND: Michael Anasstasiades

    The work of Anastassiades is immediately recognizable because of its consistent commitment to elegance and refinement.

  23. DESIGN IN MIND: Stephen Burks

    In the design galaxy, many strain to be the brightest star. Stephen Burks, however, has mapped an altogether alternate constellation.

  24. DESIGN IN MIND: Laurene Boym

    Laurene Boym’s practice ranges from self produced objects through to commissioned design work, and subjects as diverse as kitchen utensils to the poetics of disaster.

  25. DESIGN IN MIND: Paola Antonelli

    Paola Antonelli has been senior curator of art and design at the MoMA since 1994. In that time, she has seen the revolution design has gone through and and has presented it through some of the most dynamic exhibitions in the world.

  26. DESIGN IN MIND: Stefan Sagmeister

    Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most interesting, dynamic, diverse, controversial and well known designers today.

  27. DESIGN IN MIND: Sebastian Herkner

    Here, we are in conversation with Sebastian Herkner, one of today’s most rising stars in design.

  28. DESIGN IN MIND: Omer Arbel

    We speak with Omer Arbel who initially started as an architect but came to prominence through lighting. He candidly speaks about his love of craft and how the first light he presented caught him by surprise.

  29. DESIGN IN MIND: Tom Dixon

    Tom Dixon designs it all: furniture, objects, lighting, scents, interiors, restaurants, hotels and even music. Before starting his own brand, he was creative director of Habitat, a groundbreaking interiors company.

  30. DESIGN IN MIND: Best of 2015

    What design is today? The best moments from the last year's interviews in one easy listen. Fukasawa, Bellini, Gamper, Spiekermann, Birsel, Hecht and Maeda tell us how they got started and what’s most important to them.

  31. DESIGN IN MIND: Ayse Birsel

    Design is a process. It’s a way of seeing and creating. International product designer and author Ayse Birsel proposes using that process on your own life through her book Design the Life You Love.

  32. DESIGN IN MIND: Naoto Fukasawa

    Master of design, Naoto Fukasawa sits down with us in studio to discuss his work, philosophy and how he hand built his own house.

  33. DESIGN IN MIND: Mario Bellini

    Design in Mind conversation with Mario Bellini, architect, urban planner, industrial designer, furniture designer, curator, writer, editor and a leading voice in design of the last century.

  34. DESIGN IN MIND: Erik Spiekermann

    Here, we are in conversation with Erik Spiekermann, one of the leading graphic designers and typographers in the world. His original claim to fame was designing all the sign and typeface for the Berlin underground rail system but...

  35. DESIGN IN MIND: Sam Hecht

    Industrial designer Sam Hecht visited us in San Francisco to discuss design, the strength of a concise office team, working with Muji and how growing up inspired his early tinkering.

  36. DESIGN IN MIND: Martino Gamper

    Martino Gamper sat down with us for an afternoon whilst here for his talk at Arkitektura. Gamper talks food, community and how his wife inspires him to use more color.

  37. DESIGN IN MIND: Giulio Cappellini

    One night, Giulio Cappellini was having some drinks and decided to take a dramatic turn in his life. We speak about his home, his unique vision, and his love for furniture.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Design In Mind sits down with today's leading designers and design thinkers for a candid conversation about their life, their work and how they have come to see the world. Here, we get a chance to delve more deeply into the creative mind of these important designers and, through that, better understand the world we live in. Design in Mind is an extension of a series of live events in San Francisco called Arkitektura Assembly where designers of all disciplines come and share their work and ideas with the vibrant San Francisco creative community. For more information on the series, please visit assembly.arksf.com

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Arkitektura Assembly

Produced by Philip Wood

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