Category: Audio

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.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Carly Kuhn

From the Groundlings and “Chelsea Lately” to fashion illustration, textile work and beyond, Carly Kuhn—aka The Cartorialist—may not have set out to become an artist, but she became a brilliant one.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Quiara Alegría Hudes

After dreaming of becoming a musician, Quiara Alegría Hudes found her true future on the page—and in such works as “My Broken Language” and “In the Heights.” Here, the Pulitzer winner meditates on the …

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E7: Lotenna Enwonwu

Lotenna Enwonwu is the global executive creative director at Coursera.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Suneel Gupta

Forging on past failure, Suneel Gupta began to ask wildly successful people about their less-successful moments—and that laid the foundation for his own career highs, not to mention his new book that helps anyone with a great idea …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Bobbi Brown

Bobbi Brown had a revolutionary idea: to create a natural-look makeup line that would make people feel like the best version of themselves. She launched it from her home to overnight success, and today is back with her blockbuster clean …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters from the Archive: Claire Danes

At 10, she announced that money or no money, she would be true to her art—and there was no plan B. And, well, actress Claire Danes stuck to it.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E6: Elizabeth Hargrave

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

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters From the Archive: Miranda July

Writer, director, and actress Miranda July discusses the surreality of releasing a surreal movie in an even more surreal time.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E5: Lucia Lucas

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

Debbie Millman|Audio

Celebrating Pride

Alison Bechdel. Eileen Myles. Kenny Fries. Saeed Jones. Four icons reflect on their journeys in this special Pride episode of Design Matters.