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AIGA Design Podcast — 134 episodes

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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

7

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

8

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

10

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

12

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

13

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

15

Design at Scale: Richard Moross and the Story of MOO

16

Designing Change in Bureaucracy with Ivan Boscariol

17

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

18

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

23

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

24

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

37

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

43

Pentagram 50 at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference

44

Clip: Steven Steiner on Designer Archetypes

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

46

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

47

Learning with Ritesh Gupta, Useful School

48

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

49

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

51

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)

52

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

60

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

61

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

63

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

76

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

78

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

83

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

84

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

86

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

89

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

91

Design Adjacent with Gail Anderson: road trips, The Jackson Five, design, and investing your time

92

Fireside Chat with Theresa Fitzgerald, VP Creative, Sesame Workshop

93

Fireside Chat with Randy J. Hunt, former Head of Design at Grab

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Fireside Chat with Alex Center, Owner, CENTER

95

Design Future Now with Robert Smith, author of Stop Looking For Zebras

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Design Adjacent - Terry Irwin on wicked problems, shifting mindsets, and tango

97

Design Future Now: Studio HMVD on navigating appropriation and reuse of creative work with integrity

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Design Adjacent: Isaiah Steinfeld on entrepreneurship, mentorship, and the future of design

99

Design Future Live with Pek Pongpaet

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Fireside Chat: Art Taylor (Special Giving Tuesday Edition)

101

ReStart: Nicole Belyna on human resources lessons from the pandemic

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Fireside Chat with Judy Wert on design career paths

103

Design Adjacent: W. David Hubbard on the hows and whys of creativity

104

ReStart: Molly Murphy on using data to design hybrid experiences

105

Design Adjacent: Dominic Grijalva on finding creativity in a pandemic year

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ReStart: Dr. Tracy Brower on hybrid work, happiness, and creativity.

107

Fireside Chat with Robbie Tseng, Vice President, Growth Design at HBO Max

108

Design Adjacent: Abby Allen on the strategy of design and beauty of storytelling

109

A quick announcement and update: new content coming soon

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Megan Marini and Priyanka Jain of 3x3 on Community-Centered Urban Design

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ReStart: Taking Collective Action with Educators Alex Robins & Annie Larson

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ReStart: Teaching Roomies and Zoomies with Allan Chochinov

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Navigating the disruptions in design education with Lefteris Heretakis

114

Esther Mun on the joy of staying small and making tangible things

115

R. Michael Hendrix on What Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation

116

Fireside Chat with Ben Williams, R/GA Global Chief Experience Officer

117

Fireside Chat with Kayo Roehm, 3M Design Officer

118

Fireside Chat with Dantley Davis, Twitter Chief Design Officer

119

Lee-Sean gives an update and discusses design and storytelling with Anne-Laure Fayard

120

Bobby Alexis and Roger Manix on Play

121

Richard Ting on Digital Craft

122

Giorgia Lupi on Data Humanism

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Amanda Makulec on Communicating COVID-19 Data

124

David Carroll on Data Rights

125

Rinat Sherzer on Biomimicry and Gender in Design

126

Sloan Leo on Community Building as Design Practice

127

Paul Pangaro on Design for/as Conversation

128

Deborah Littlejohn and Randa Hadi, Data, Damn Lies, and Disruption

129

Kim Erwin, healthcare delivery designer and researcher

130

Miya Osaki and Tina Park, Healthcare Experience Designers, Educators, and Podcasters

131

Jack Roberts, Cherokee author, designer, educator, and filmmaker

132

Sarah Gibbons and Jodi Forlizzi, AIGA Design Conference 2020 Speakers

133

AIGA Design Future Now Extended Trailer

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AIGA Design Future Now Teaser