Prior to joining CHF in 2014, she spent more than 10 years at WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR affiliate, as a reporter and the host of Eight Forty-Eight. For more information, including social media platforms, visit: Alison Cuddy is the Festival’s Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director. She lives in New York and Los Angeles with her wife Roxane Gay. Over the course of her popular podcast’s fifteen-year reign, Debbie Millman has interviewed more than 400 creative minds. (photo by Patrick Dodson) 20211103 NYSWI Roxane Gay Debbie Millman 4T9A1082 Creative Life WAMC Joe. She has demonstrated time, and again, why design matters.Roxane Gay, from the foreword. Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman speak to WAMC's Joe Donahue during a taping of The Creative Life in partnership with New York State Writers Institute at UAlbany's Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. In this interview, the two talk about the difference between bravery and strength.
Through her deeply personal writing, and prolific tweeting, Roxane Gay has reshaped how our culture talks about race, sexuality and the body. Her TED talk was ranked one of the best TED talks of 2020. Debbie Millman has become a singular voice in the world of intimate, enlightening conversations. Hear author Roxane Gay interviewed by one of our all time heroes, Debbie Millman, host of the podcast Design Matters. Debbie is President Emeritus of AIGA and is a frequent speaker on design and branding. Her artwork has been included at prestigious universities and museums around the world. Her writing and illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Print Magazine, Design Observer and Fast Company. She is the author of seven books, including her latest, Why Design Matters. In 2009 Debbie co-founded with Steven Heller the world’s first graduate program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In the 16 years since its inception, Design Matters has garnered a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, six Webby nominations, and an Apple Podcasts “best overall podcast” designation. At CHF Millman discusses the new ways of being and living she’s learned through these conversations, what it means to cultivate a creative life, and why design matters.ĭebbie Millman is an author, educator, curator, and host of the podcast Design Matters, one of the world’s first and longest running podcasts. Her latest book Why Design Matters, features some of her favorite interviews with visionaries like cartoonist Alison Bechdel, artist Amy Sherald, writer Malcom Gladwell, journalist Anand Giridharadas, and radio host Ira Glass.
Debbie Millman hosts the popular and award-winning podcast Design Matters, where she talks to writers, artists, curators, musicians, and of course-designers, about why their creative disciplines are so important.