Ellen McGirt

Ellen McGirt|The Design Observer Twenty

The Redesigners

The Design Observer Twenty is our curated selection of twenty remarkable people, projects, and big ideas solving an urgent social need.

Cindy Chastain|Conversations

Design Observer x Mastercard

For three days in March, we gathered with some sixty people—designers and scholars, social entrepreneurs and independent consultants, creative leaders and senior practitioners from across a range of industries—to discuss the …

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E11: Avery Willis Hoffman

Avery Willis Hoffman is a writer, director, producer, and curator. Hoffman recently joined Brown University as the inaugural artistic director of the Brown Arts Initiative.

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S9E10: Quemuel Arroyo

Quemuel Arroyo is the first ever chief accessibility officer at the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E9: Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis is an artist, curator, and a professor at New York University. Her most recent book is The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E8: Jan Diehm

Jan Diehm is a journalist at Polygraph and The Pudding.

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S9E7: Lotenna Enwonwu

Lotenna Enwonwu is the global executive creative director at Coursera.

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S9E6: Elizabeth Hargrave

Elizabeth Hargrave is an American game designer whose games include Wingspan, Mariposas, and Tussie Mussie.

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S9E5: Lucia Lucas

Lucia Lucas is a baritone who made her U.S. debut in 2019 at Tulsa Opera as Don Giovanni.

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S9E4: Na Kim

Na Kim is an associate creative director at the book publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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S9E2: Melanie Keen

Melanie Keen is the director of Wellcome Collection.

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S9E01: Ellen Mirojnick

Emmy-award winner Ellen Mirojnick has designed film costumes since the 1980s and most recently is the lead costume designer for the Netflix series Bridgerton.