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Graphic Designers After Graphic Design with Jarrett Fuller

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Democratizing Foresight: Who Gets to Shape the Future? with Tameka Vasquez, Founder, The Future Quo

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Crafting Your Narrative: From Hackathons to AI with Sally Chung, Founder, Designpreneurs

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AI’s Magic Wand in the No-Collar Economy with Martin LeBlanc, Chief Experience Officer at Magnific

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Norm Design: The Invisible Architecture of Social Challenges with Jeff Leitner

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The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life with Ian Bogost

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Design and Hope with Rinat Sherzer

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Seth Johnson on Earning the Right to Change Things

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Has Design Lost Its Bite? With Benjie Wilhelm

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Design the Context, Not the Object with Todd Bracher, Three-Time International Designer of the Year

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The Future of Design Education: Building a Global Studio with Bryan Clark (Falmouth University)

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Sustainability, education, and the iF Design Awards with Lisa Gralnek

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Branding as a Cultural Force with Robin Landa

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Humanizing Data Through Design with Giorgia Lupi

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Why paper still matters in the age of digital and AI

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Introducing "Eyes on Design," AIGA's 2026 Programming Theme

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Designing for the World We Live In: Aleksey Fedorov on Meaning, Performance, and Brand Impact

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The Human Element People First: Devika Menon on Participatory Service Design

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Shaping Your Path: Kevin Flores on Career Growth, AI and Design Leadership

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Balancing Anger and Hope: George Aye on Pissed Off Optimism in Design

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Navigating Intersections: Sahar Chung on Design, Performance, and Inclusivity

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Embracing Change: Helder Santo's Journey in Design and Technology

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Beyond the Brand: Building Ideas Worth Rallying Around with Sunny Bonnell

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Catalyzing Change: Maria Fernanda La Rotta on Strategic Design for an Inclusive Future

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Design at Scale: Richard Moross and the Story of MOO

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Designing Change in Bureaucracy with Ivan Boscariol

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Designing Memory: Exploring Syria’s Creative Legacy with Kinda Ghannoum

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Humanizing Creativity Through Physical Design with Michael Kaye of Sylvain

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Making Work Suck Less with Erin Shems, Ezippy Co., Creative Operations Agency

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How to Work Less, Earn More with Karl Sakas

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Scott Berkun on Why Design is Hard

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Data Visualization & Migration with Marta Foresti & Federica Fragapane from the LAGO Collective

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Assembling Tomorrow with Scott Doorley & Carissa Carter from the Stanford d.school

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Design + Performance (New Season/Theme) with Gary Jaffe, Independent Filmmaker

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Robert Brunner on Designing Products for Scale

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Clip: Robert Brunner on changing his major to design

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Community Engagement & Cultural Change with Jenn Stucker

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Clip: Community Engagement & Cultural Change with Jenn Stucker

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Designing Airline Brands with Edmond Huot

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Designing a Design Conference with Lee-Sean Huang (Special Episode)

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Clip: Designing Airline Brands with Edmond Huot

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From the Margins to the Mainstream with Vault49

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Pivoting your Creative Business with Matthew McIver

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Clip: Margins and Padding of Running a Studio with Matt McIver

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Crafting a Career Roadmap with Sarah Doody

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Clip: Designing Your Career with Sarah Doody

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Why design research is stuck with Danny Spitzberg and Humphrey Obuobi

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Clip: Why Design Research is Stuck

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Welcome to the 2024 Season of AIGA Design Podcast: MARGINS

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Clip: Colton Schweitzer on UX bootcamps and gaps in design curricula

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Colton Schweitzer on Kickass UX

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Maigen Thomas on career changes and starting a new design job

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Pentagram 50 at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference

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Clip: Steven Steiner on Designer Archetypes

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Steven Steiner on designer archetypes, career coaching, and communicating your value

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FEED SWAP: Yellow Glitter, Collective Change and Community-Centered Design with Lee-Sean Huang

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Learning with Ritesh Gupta, Useful School

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From the Archives: Matt Groening at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference

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Rodrigo Canales and Michael Bierut on Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders

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Hugh Dubberly on design as finding balance in systems and why problem solving is not enough

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The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection with Anne H. Berry, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters (RECORDED LIVE in Seattle at the AIGA Design Conference)

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FEED SWAP - Did I Do That? - The Surreal World with Lee-Sean Huang

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FEED SWAP - The Futures Archive S02E10: Automatic Door

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Design Adjacent with Shauna Carey, Chief Executive Officer, IDEO.org on gratitude, social impact, finding the best solutions, challenges, curving paths, and small steps to the future

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Design Adjacent with Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Marty Maxwell Lane on collaboration, importance of seeing people in person, shared values and goals, and working through challenges

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Design Adjacent with Zachary Kaiser, Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University on design and technology, privacy, and writing

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Design Adjacent with Camille Finan, Host and Producer of Remodel Your Life Podcast on false assumptions, finding allies in your space, over meeting expectations, and internalizing functionality

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Design Adjacent with Paul Taylor, Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, BrandOpus on cracked eggs and iconic brands

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Design Adjacent with Chris Hervochon, Better Way CPA, virtual CFO for marketing and creative agencies and nonprofit organizations

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Design Adjacent with AIGA Medalist Archie Boston on design spirituality, art, culture, and industry, learning for the sake of knowledge, capturing history, and helping others through design

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Fireside Chat with Robin Petravic, Co-owner and Managing Director of Heath Ceramics

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Design Adjacent with Llisa Demetrios, Chief Curator, Eames Institute on infinite curiosity, chain reactions, design as a method of action, addressing needs, creating connections, and sustainability

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Fireside Chat with Rick Griffith

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Design Adjacent with Elise Schuster, Co-Founder and Executive Director, okayso on being a problem solver, standing the gap, creating safe spaces, and building a human first organization.

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Design Adjacent with Margot Bloomstein, Author, Principal of Appropriate, Inc. on interpersonal relationships, leading with the human side, what a company can do to demonstrate trust

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Design Adjacent with Meg Mothershed, Strategy Guru and Wordsmith, Mothershed Design Co. on being an entrepreneur, what it means to be chief champion for yourself, work life balance and more

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Design Adjacent with Diana Barnes, Chief Brand Officer and Creative Director at Munchkin on unleashing storytelling in branding, human connectivity, and being the change you want to see in the world

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Fireside Chat with Art Chantry

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Design Future Live with Beat Baudenbacher

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Design Adjacent with Dave Garrett, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at PMI on articulating a vision, co-developing solutions, changing methodology, and having impact

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Design Adjacent with Ritesh Gupta, Founder of the Useful School on re-visioning design education, radical changes, impact of design, and finding a coach

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Design Adjacent with Lisa Sasaki, Interim Director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on field trips, creating connections between people and objects, and museums without walls

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Design Adjacent with Regina Bain on preserving a legacy, musical storytelling, clown class, and what it means to listen and respond

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Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Lynda Decker, Creative Director at Decker Design

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Design Adjacent with Catherine Clark, Founder and Paul McDowall on changing spaces, designing around people, and not being perfect

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Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Michael Bierut, Partner at Pentagram

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Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Katrina Alcorn, General Manager, Design at IBM

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Design Adjacent with Bret Recor on shifting the agency model, being a true partner, and environmental impact

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Design Future Live with JoAnn Holmes on Intellectual Property and Web3

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Design Adjacent with Minal Bopaiah on being stewards of equity, storytelling, and being a reluctant entrepreneurship

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Design Adjacent with Steven Heller on first days, joys of incompetence, and the tentacles of design

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Design Adjacent with Matt Mullenweg on working remote vs distributed work, music, distractions, and augmented reality

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Michael Arndt on Snails & Monkey Tails: A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols

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Ian Lynam on the Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers

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Design Adjacent with Brandi Parker on sustainability, evolving behaviors, future considerations, and designing recycling

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Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer.

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Design Adjacent with Maurice Cherry on analog and digital design, math, and the Metaverses

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Design Adjacent with Pek Pongpaet on careers, writing code, power of play in problem solving

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Special Edition: More mentorship, please! But what does that mean?

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Design Adjacent: Cheryl Heller on career changes, innovation, doing things the hard way, and being an entrepreneur