Design Juice
Design Juice is an as-told-to conversation series series that captures how designers think, work, and envision the future. Design Observer is catching up with design practitioners from across disciplines and at any career stage who offer distinctive perspectives on their craft and its impact.
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Ellen McGirt|Design Juice
Making ‘change’ the product: Phil Gilbert on transforming IBM from the inside out
Phil Gilbert shares how he transformed IBM’s culture, and why treating change like a premium product may be essential in an AI-driven future.
Rachel Paese|Design Juice
Sound designer Eddie Gandelman on composing a quieter future
As our everyday, man-made products compete to be the most earsplitting, this sonic experience designer is trading in the “needle pricks” for spatial reverb, wood tapping, and bird song.
Delaney Rebernik|Design Juice
Runway modeler: Airport architect Sameedha Mahajan on sending ever-more people skyward
The first-gen immigrant and second-gen architect says the best airports for our brave new world will blend wayfinding, cultural context, and, sometimes, a smaller footprint.
Delaney Rebernik|Books
‘Designed Forests’ author Dan Handel says design is behind our experiences in nature
We are the humans. We speak for the trees. Sometimes, out both sides of our mouths.
L’Oreal Thompson Payton|Books
Less is liberation: Christine Platt talks Afrominimalism and designing a spacious life
When the author and advocate learned to live with — and do — less, she found so much more.
L’Oreal Thompson Payton|Design Juice
Cheryl Durst on design, diversity, and defining her own path
Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA is no stranger to making history.