Stories from the art world that intersect with the built environment
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Cey Adams is a soft-spoken legend. A New York City native, he emerged from the downtown graffiti scene before becoming the creative director of Def Jam Recordings, where he designed for Run DMC, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., and Jay-Z, among others. In this episode of
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Jeremy Leslie loves magazines. He leads magCulture: a design studio, online resource, magazine shop, and events producer. He divides his time between designing, writing, and curating. His book The Modern Magazine was published in 2013 and the online magCulture Journal is a key source of editorial-design opinion and news. In
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Graphic designer and filmmaker Marina Willer is a partner at global design firm Pentagram. Before joining Pentagram, she was head creative director at Wolff Olins in London, where she lead iconic work like the visual identity of Tate Modern. In this episode, we talk about her film, Red Trees, which
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Tina Roth Eisenberg has many preoccupations and passions, she started a temporary tattoo company called Tattly, a global community meet-up group called Creative Mornings, and a digital task organizer called TeuxDeux. After studying design in Switzerland and Germany, she moved to Brooklyn in 1999 and worked as a designer eventually
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Named one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business,” Robert Brunner is the designer of such iconic products as the Apple PowerBook and the Beats by Dre headphones. Formerly director of industrial design for Apple, he laid the foundations for moving computers from the utilitarian to the desirable
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Paul Lavoie founded Taxi in Montreal in 1992 with his partner Jane Hope. The ad agency became widely known for its innovative work and soon grew an international reach working with a wide range of global brands. Lavoie left Taxi to devote his time to Beau Lake, a luxury paddleboard
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Pia Betton links design thinking to business. Originally from Denmark, Pia’s 20 year career spans brand development, corporate design, design research, innovation and communication. Her international client portfolio covers private companies from many different industries like Lego, Bosch, Bang & Olufsen, and Carlsberg. In this episode of First Things
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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