The important feature that design brings is this bridge between the science and the arts. And I don’t think many people understand the power of design to put these two things together. 

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It doesn’t occur to them that everything is design – every building, everything they touch in the world is designed. The world around us is something that somebody has control over and, perhaps, they could have control over.

Legendary British industrial designer and interaction design pioneer Bill Moggridge, who designed the first laptop and who passed away last year, talks to Debbie Millman about innovation, education, human-centered design, and the future of interaction.

Moggridge was remembered earlier this week at a memorial service in New York City.

New episodes of Design Matters are available on iTunes every week and highlights from the archives can be found on SoundCloud.

That’s why typography works – it creeps into you and before you know it, you’ve received the message.

Fantastic Design Matters interview with iconic type designer Erik Spiekermann, whose creative process springs open in Typography Sketchbooks. 

If you’re confident that what you’re doing is actually 51% original, you can actually get bolder about what the other 49% is.

A wonderful conversation with graphic designer John Flansburgh, half of the indie rock duo They Might Be Giants, on 

“Memorials are the promises that we make to future generations.”

Jake Barton on the role of museums and memorials in society, an excerpt from Debbie Millman’s fantastic Design Matters podcast.