the President of the design division at Sterling Brands, an international design consultancy. She has been there for fourteen years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Campbell’s, Colgate, Hershey and Hasbro. Debbie is President of the AIGA, the professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine and the chair of the new Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet. She is the author of two books: How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007), and The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008). Her new book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design, will be published by How Books in Fall 2009.
Design Matters is...
In a global environment shifting at rapid pace, a profound paradigm shift is underway which is transforming the way we lead our lives, relate and communicate with others, acquire and communicate knowledge, and engage in the larger world. We are also at a tipping point when global inequalities, unprecedented economic complexities and intractable social problems are demanding multidisciplinary and collective solutions and new entrepreneurial models that can turn obstacles into opportunities.
Through Designmatters at Art Center College of Design, students are invited to apply their talent, creativity and tool-box of skills to address some of the most troubling humanitarian and social challenges of our time with empathy, discipline, and unwavering optimism to effect change.
Designmatters is an educational department that partners with every discipline at Art Center to focus on art and design education with a social impact agenda and “real-world” outcomes that are implemented through a series of unique partnerships and alliances with global development agencies, government groups, academic institutions, local and national non-profits, and leading industry
Through Designmatters at Art Center College of Design, students are invited to apply their talent, creativity and tool-box of skills to address some of the most troubling humanitarian and social challenges of our time with empathy, discipline, and unwavering optimism to effect change.
Designmatters is an educational department that partners with every discipline at Art Center to focus on art and design education with a social impact agenda and “real-world” outcomes that are implemented through a series of unique partnerships and alliances with global development agencies, government groups, academic institutions, local and national non-profits, and leading industry
Their Mission Statement:
Through research, advocacy and action, Designmatters engages, empowers and leads an ongoing exploration of design as a positive force in society.
The common goal of all Designmatters projects is simple: take art and design education as a catalyst and change agent. And imagine and build a better and more humane future for all.
The common goal of all Designmatters projects is simple: take art and design education as a catalyst and change agent. And imagine and build a better and more humane future for all.
They focus on four themes: Public Policy, Global Healthcare, Sustainable Development, Social Entrepreneurship.
design is selection, expression, combination of art math science.
manifesto encourages to reconsider opportunities outside commercial place b ut make it meaning fun reevaluate priorities. passion truth reality. there will always be the need to design those commercial things. need to inject passion truth to inform and remind of what is important what is important is honesty. honesty. design can be an inspiration to our culture cause reaching to higher grounds. all need to be approached with honesty and integrity.
with her today is steven heller:
do politics take part in design? plays a role. works in new york times news room. news has to be objective. been at the new york times 30 years.
book education of typographer: "teaching a student graphic design before typography is like teaching a baby to walk before she crawls"
it is important to have a grasp on that particular type of art. we are taking a chinese menu to type. if we teach students to work on the computer as lithographic union people did perhaps we will get a better grade of typographers and if built into the training we will get a better generation of them. It's good to be in contact with the old way.
He was asked about how we as students are apparently lacking knowledge in graphic history...he said...there is more taught in the schools recently about our history. it is good to know what wheels were invented before we do our own. it is how you absorb your knowledge and what you do with it, sitting in class and listening to history doesn't help anyone gain anything if they don't want to. keep it in perspective.
Vanity- this word is key, the designers who produce books of their own to showcase their work. Bombarded with work and it is questionable it we learn anything from it.
His answer to a caller: The variety of styles is the breaking of national and regional barriers or aesthetics.
Do you feel your formal education prepared you: learned on the street, learned from various famous people who were friends. learned about aesthetics he feels hampered about not having a formal education.
I thought this interview was very insightful. The interviews she hosts are very informative and beneficial to listen to. Above is a summary of the points I thought were interesting.
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