Jessica Bellamy is an information designer. She tells visual stories using data and personal narratives. She started her design career working with nonprofits and community groups to create visuals that break down complex service and policy information. In 2015, she created a small design agency called GRIDS: The Grassroots Information
This episode of First Things First was recorded as part of our Live Magazine project at DesignThinkers, in Toronto. The interview is with Sid Lee creative director, Laura Stein and was done by Frontier Senior Designer, Tristan Marantos. To learn more about Live Magazine, visit frontier.is and look for
Grace Hwang leads Design at Carrot, a technology company that helps people quit smoking. For 12 years, she lead healthcare focused projects around the world in her role at IDEO, a global innovation consultancy. IDEO is most famous for popularizing the term design thinking. Design thinking recognizes that design school
Jessica Hische describes herself as a “Lettering artist, author, illustrator, letterpress printer, and type designer” but also a “mother, procrastiworker, and a million other things.” She has worked with many well recognized brands, authors, and other designers on a multitude of different kinds of projects. In this episode, we talk
This episode of First Things First was recorded live on stage at Design Thinkers in Toronto with Bonnie Sielger about her book Dear Client. Siegler was voted one of the fifty most influential designers working today by GDUSA. Her career spans a wide range of influential clients and projects like
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Forest Young is a designer and educator whose ranging knowledge stretches to all points of the map, challenging the listener in unexpected ways. At Wolff Olins, he leads design initiatives for the world’s most influential companies recently competing a brand refresh for Uber. His work has been exhibited at
Michael Bierut is a proper gentleman. With his sharp dress punctuated by an iconic hat and scarf, he moves through a room with the gravity of one of the world’s best known designers. But his iconic status is paired with an arresting attentiveness. He’ll write you a surprising
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Ellen Lupton believes that design tells stories that touch peoples’ minds and bodies. She asks how a song tastes and how designers engage the senses to create richer and more inclusive experiences. In this episode, Ellen talks about the tyranny of visual perception, the ultimate self serve convenience store, and
Paul Sahre is a New York–based designer who has worked with everyone from Marvel to Google to the New York Times. He’s an expert cover designer. He’s designed album covers for bands like They Might Be Giants, covers for magazines like New York, and book covers for
Krys Blackwood fights for the user. That means she designs the way that human beings interact with software and hardware so that they have a good experience rather than the frustration many of us face with technology that doesn’t want to cooperate. She has been designing interfaces of many
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Jan Chipchase is a Tokyo-based researcher, designer, and strategist. He is also an author of The Field Study Handbook, considered an essential reference to running international field research as well as a guide for those who want to understand how to travel better. In this episode he discusses his current
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Timothy Goodman is a New York–based designer and illustrator. He is also an author and activist concerned with social issues and on an unending quest for authentic experiences and human interaction. In this episode he discusses his transition from home renovations in Cleveland, Ohio to his make-or-break start in