The Design Of Business | The Business of Design
Design Observer
The Design of Business | The Business of Design explores how design shapes, and is shaped by, the world around us. Hosted by Ellen McGirt, the podcast features conversations with visionary leaders from a wide range of industries, from architecture and technology to journalism and retail. Together, they examine creative practices, challenge conventional thinking, and explore how design drives business, innovation, and social change.In Season 12 of DB|BD, host Ellen McGirt explores Designing for the Unknown—how visionary designers, architects, and thinkers navigate uncertainty, from climate adaptation to technological disruption. This season, we’re looking at the bold ideas reshaping our cities, industries, and ways of living in an unpredictable world.
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Jun 14, 2022 • 19min
S10E0: Introducing Our New Minisodes Co-Hosts
Introducing The Design of Business | The Business of Design minisode co hosts, Kaleena Sales and Omari Souza. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
Jun 7, 2022 • 27min
S10E0: Introducing Our New Co-Hosts
Season ten of the The Design of Business | The Business of Design returns with new hosts Dana Arnett and Kevin Bethune! To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
Mar 29, 2022 • 34min
The Futures Archive: The Disco Ball
While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here's the first episode from the new season of The Futures Archive. So what are the relationships between design and pleasure? And how can we design the most pleasurable experiences? Lee Moreau and Rachel Lehrer discuss the disco ball and the importance of embodied design with additional insights from Änne Söll, Nadine Hubbs, Gary Hunt, and David Rose. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
Nov 2, 2021 • 34min
Introducing The Futures Archive
Check out the first episode of Connect 4: Design Bridges, a new show about mentorship from Design Observer and Connect 4: Networking for Equality in Design. On this episode, creative director Jonathan Jackson talks with Avalon Garrick, a design student at Mercy College. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the Connect 4: Design Bridges feed wherever you get your podcasts or check them out at https://designobserver.com/podcast-connect4.phpThe Design of Business | The Business of Design will be back soon.Connect 4: Design Bridges was produced by Hawk and Paw Productions in collaboration with Mercy College, Pentagram, and Design Observer. The theme music was composed by Isabel Sanchez.
Oct 19, 2021 • 30min
S9E12: Jessica Helfand + Ellen McGirt
Jessica and Ellen listen back to highlights from Season 9, and hand off hosting duties to Dana Arnett and Kevin Bethune, who will be taking over in Season 10.
Oct 5, 2021 • 38min
S9E11: Avery Willis Hoffman
Avery Willis Hoffman is a writer, director, producer and curator. Hoffman recently joined Brown University as the inaugural artistic director of the Brown Arts Institute.
Sep 21, 2021 • 37min
S9E10: Quemuel Arroyo
Quemuel Arroyo is the first ever chief accessibility officer at the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Sep 7, 2021 • 39min
S9E9: Deborah Willis
Deborah Willis is an artist, curator, and a professor at New York University. Her most recent book is The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.
Aug 24, 2021 • 34min
S9E8: Jan Diehm
Jan Diehm is a journalist at Polygraph and The Pudding.
Aug 10, 2021 • 31min
S9E7: Lotenna Enwonwu
Lotenna Enwonwu is the global executive creative director at Coursera.
