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AIGA Design Podcast — 134 episodes
The Future of Design Education: Building a Global Studio with Bryan Clark (Falmouth University)
Sustainability, education, and the iF Design Awards with Lisa Gralnek
Branding as a Cultural Force with Robin Landa
Humanizing Data Through Design with Giorgia Lupi
Why paper still matters in the age of digital and AI
Introducing "Eyes on Design," AIGA's 2026 Programming Theme
Designing for the World We Live In: Aleksey Fedorov on Meaning, Performance, and Brand Impact
The Human Element People First: Devika Menon on Participatory Service Design
Shaping Your Path: Kevin Flores on Career Growth, AI and Design Leadership
Balancing Anger and Hope: George Aye on Pissed Off Optimism in Design
Navigating Intersections: Sahar Chung on Design, Performance, and Inclusivity
Embracing Change: Helder Santo's Journey in Design and Technology
Beyond the Brand: Building Ideas Worth Rallying Around with Sunny Bonnell
Catalyzing Change: Maria Fernanda La Rotta on Strategic Design for an Inclusive Future
Design at Scale: Richard Moross and the Story of MOO
Designing Change in Bureaucracy with Ivan Boscariol
Designing Memory: Exploring Syria’s Creative Legacy with Kinda Ghannoum
Humanizing Creativity Through Physical Design with Michael Kaye of Sylvain
Making Work Suck Less with Erin Shems, Ezippy Co., Creative Operations Agency
How to Work Less, Earn More with Karl Sakas
Scott Berkun on Why Design is Hard
Data Visualization & Migration with Marta Foresti & Federica Fragapane from the LAGO Collective
Assembling Tomorrow with Scott Doorley & Carissa Carter from the Stanford d.school
Design + Performance (New Season/Theme) with Gary Jaffe, Independent Filmmaker
Robert Brunner on Designing Products for Scale
Clip: Robert Brunner on changing his major to design
Community Engagement & Cultural Change with Jenn Stucker
Clip: Community Engagement & Cultural Change with Jenn Stucker
Designing Airline Brands with Edmond Huot
Designing a Design Conference with Lee-Sean Huang (Special Episode)
Clip: Designing Airline Brands with Edmond Huot
From the Margins to the Mainstream with Vault49
Pivoting your Creative Business with Matthew McIver
Clip: Margins and Padding of Running a Studio with Matt McIver
Crafting a Career Roadmap with Sarah Doody
Clip: Designing Your Career with Sarah Doody
Why design research is stuck with Danny Spitzberg and Humphrey Obuobi
Clip: Why Design Research is Stuck
Welcome to the 2024 Season of AIGA Design Podcast: MARGINS
Clip: Colton Schweitzer on UX bootcamps and gaps in design curricula
Colton Schweitzer on Kickass UX
Maigen Thomas on career changes and starting a new design job
Pentagram 50 at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference
Clip: Steven Steiner on Designer Archetypes
Steven Steiner on designer archetypes, career coaching, and communicating your value
FEED SWAP: Yellow Glitter, Collective Change and Community-Centered Design with Lee-Sean Huang
Learning with Ritesh Gupta, Useful School
From the Archives: Matt Groening at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference
Rodrigo Canales and Michael Bierut on Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders
Hugh Dubberly on design as finding balance in systems and why problem solving is not enough
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)
FEED SWAP - Did I Do That? - The Surreal World with Lee-Sean Huang
FEED SWAP - The Futures Archive S02E10: Automatic Door
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
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
Design Adjacent with Zachary Kaiser, Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University on design and technology, privacy, and writing
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
Design Adjacent with Paul Taylor, Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, BrandOpus on cracked eggs and iconic brands
Design Adjacent with Chris Hervochon, Better Way CPA, virtual CFO for marketing and creative agencies and nonprofit organizations
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
Fireside Chat with Robin Petravic, Co-owner and Managing Director of Heath Ceramics
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
Fireside Chat with Rick Griffith
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.
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
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
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
Fireside Chat with Art Chantry
Design Future Live with Beat Baudenbacher
Design Adjacent with Dave Garrett, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at PMI on articulating a vision, co-developing solutions, changing methodology, and having impact
Design Adjacent with Ritesh Gupta, Founder of the Useful School on re-visioning design education, radical changes, impact of design, and finding a coach
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
Design Adjacent with Regina Bain on preserving a legacy, musical storytelling, clown class, and what it means to listen and respond
Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Lynda Decker, Creative Director at Decker Design
Design Adjacent with Catherine Clark, Founder and Paul McDowall on changing spaces, designing around people, and not being perfect
Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Michael Bierut, Partner at Pentagram
Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Katrina Alcorn, General Manager, Design at IBM
Design Adjacent with Bret Recor on shifting the agency model, being a true partner, and environmental impact
Design Future Live with JoAnn Holmes on Intellectual Property and Web3
Design Adjacent with Minal Bopaiah on being stewards of equity, storytelling, and being a reluctant entrepreneurship
Design Adjacent with Steven Heller on first days, joys of incompetence, and the tentacles of design
Design Adjacent with Matt Mullenweg on working remote vs distributed work, music, distractions, and augmented reality
Michael Arndt on Snails & Monkey Tails: A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols
Ian Lynam on the Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers
Design Adjacent with Brandi Parker on sustainability, evolving behaviors, future considerations, and designing recycling
Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer.
Design Adjacent with Maurice Cherry on analog and digital design, math, and the Metaverses
Design Adjacent with Pek Pongpaet on careers, writing code, power of play in problem solving
Special Edition: More mentorship, please! But what does that mean?
Design Adjacent: Cheryl Heller on career changes, innovation, doing things the hard way, and being an entrepreneur
Design Adjacent with Gail Anderson: road trips, The Jackson Five, design, and investing your time
Fireside Chat with Theresa Fitzgerald, VP Creative, Sesame Workshop
Fireside Chat with Randy J. Hunt, former Head of Design at Grab
Fireside Chat with Alex Center, Owner, CENTER
Design Future Now with Robert Smith, author of Stop Looking For Zebras
Design Adjacent - Terry Irwin on wicked problems, shifting mindsets, and tango
Design Future Now: Studio HMVD on navigating appropriation and reuse of creative work with integrity
Design Adjacent: Isaiah Steinfeld on entrepreneurship, mentorship, and the future of design
Design Future Live with Pek Pongpaet
Fireside Chat: Art Taylor (Special Giving Tuesday Edition)
ReStart: Nicole Belyna on human resources lessons from the pandemic
Fireside Chat with Judy Wert on design career paths
Design Adjacent: W. David Hubbard on the hows and whys of creativity
ReStart: Molly Murphy on using data to design hybrid experiences
Design Adjacent: Dominic Grijalva on finding creativity in a pandemic year
ReStart: Dr. Tracy Brower on hybrid work, happiness, and creativity.
Fireside Chat with Robbie Tseng, Vice President, Growth Design at HBO Max
Design Adjacent: Abby Allen on the strategy of design and beauty of storytelling
A quick announcement and update: new content coming soon
Megan Marini and Priyanka Jain of 3x3 on Community-Centered Urban Design
ReStart: Taking Collective Action with Educators Alex Robins & Annie Larson
ReStart: Teaching Roomies and Zoomies with Allan Chochinov
Navigating the disruptions in design education with Lefteris Heretakis
Esther Mun on the joy of staying small and making tangible things
R. Michael Hendrix on What Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation
Fireside Chat with Ben Williams, R/GA Global Chief Experience Officer
Fireside Chat with Kayo Roehm, 3M Design Officer
Fireside Chat with Dantley Davis, Twitter Chief Design Officer
Lee-Sean gives an update and discusses design and storytelling with Anne-Laure Fayard
Bobby Alexis and Roger Manix on Play
Richard Ting on Digital Craft
Giorgia Lupi on Data Humanism
Amanda Makulec on Communicating COVID-19 Data
David Carroll on Data Rights
Rinat Sherzer on Biomimicry and Gender in Design
Sloan Leo on Community Building as Design Practice
Paul Pangaro on Design for/as Conversation
Deborah Littlejohn and Randa Hadi, Data, Damn Lies, and Disruption
Kim Erwin, healthcare delivery designer and researcher
Miya Osaki and Tina Park, Healthcare Experience Designers, Educators, and Podcasters
Jack Roberts, Cherokee author, designer, educator, and filmmaker
Sarah Gibbons and Jodi Forlizzi, AIGA Design Conference 2020 Speakers
AIGA Design Future Now Extended Trailer
AIGA Design Future Now Teaser