Creative Leadership Retreat: Paul Dichter
This episode kicks off a special series recorded live at our Creative Leadership Retreat in Sonoma, which we co-hosted with our friends at September Works in late September. We gathered 40 leaders fro...
4 Nov 1h
Maurice Cherry: Revision Path creator on why attention isn’t impact
For eleven years, Maurice Cherry made a weekly podcast called Revision Path showcasing Black designers from around the world. He recorded more than 500 episodes with designers on six continents and bu...
28 Okt 51min
Tom Foley: How to pair typefaces and why the best brand fonts go unnoticed
Tom Foley didn’t set out to design typefaces. As a postgraduate student at Central Saint Martins in London, he was researching why Ireland, unlike Switzerland, the Netherlands, or Germany, never seeme...
21 Okt 40min
Kevin Flores: Find Your Inner Rebel
Kevin Flores has been part of the Design Better community for years — we first met him in 2017, while he was leading design at 23andMe, back when we were researching how design teams are structured fo...
14 Okt 39min
Randy Hunt: Notion and Etsy design leader on why the best design teams stay small
In graduate school, Randy Hunt poured his heart and soul into a poster for Milton Glaser’s class, a picture built entirely from hand lettering that read as an image from across the room and as words u...
7 Okt 40min
Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
When Aarron was fresh out of grad school, working at an agency outside Philadelphia, he and his coworkers used to crowd around a monitor to study volumeone.com. Most websites back then had a picture, ...
5 Okt 55min
Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
Blaine Billingsley is a staff designer at OpenAI, and his path there was anything but a straight line. He studied music composition and comparative religion, played guitar in Texas for a living (he re...
23 Sep 28min
Mack Paul: Co-author of Miracle Road on designing places where innovation happens
In the mid-1950s, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the country. Its economy ran on tobacco, furniture, and textiles — all three in decline — and its universities were turning out talent...
17 Sep 44min
