Be A Design Cast 44 : Debbie Millman : How to Think Like A Great Graphic Designer
by Nate Voss, (12 comments)
This week we continue our Nashville coverage with a return visit from one of our favorite people in the whole, wide world, Debbie Millman. She has a new book coming out, you may have heard, titled How To Think Like a Great Graphic Designer, which is releasing on October 30th and oddly does not include interviews with Donovan or myself. Ahem. In one of the more earnest moments in BADCast history, Donovan shoves all of that to the side because just before we walked into Debbie’s room to record this show I mentioned off-handedly that Debbie had redesigned the Hershey’s bar a few years back. So for the first part of this terrific episode we do something with Debbie that most people seem to never do: we talk about her work. Good times and hugs abound in the BADCast this week, so jaded hearts beware. Everyone else: enjoy.
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Comments (12)
Jem said:
Does anyone else get the last BADcast instead of this one? I got a repeat in iTunes and it appears to be the old one here as well?
Posted on October 25, 2007
Nate Voss said:
Thanks for bringing that to our attention, Jem. The problem has been fixed.
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Posted on October 25, 2007
Prescott Perez-Fox said:
How to think like a great graphic designer: Calculus! Changed my life, I tells you. It’s all about logic, thought processes and visualising abstract concepts, things I reckon every designer could find handy. Then again, I don’t have a book coming out so what do I know.
Posted on October 25, 2007
Justin Paluch said:
Looking forward to this… I started to listen to it on the bus and though ‘wow, this is starting out just like last episode.’ Then I though ‘hm, bantjes and Millman? Then I realized that I needed coffee, and it was the last episode.
Nate, how am I going to claim my prize, if you aren’t going to finish your blog from teh futr?
Posted on October 25, 2007
Bone said:
FYI -
iTunes still has #43 repeated in #44.
Posted on October 25, 2007
Nate Voss said:
Bone, I’m not sure why that is. We’ve tested it on our machines and it’s both showing up in the Music Store as #44 and downloading the appropriate file now, so, yeah, I dunno. At this point the code checks out, iTunes may just need some catching up on your machine? Maybe?
Other trivia for the day: we’ve officially broken our RSS feed limit: the original BADCast is currently unavailable for download until we increase the cap. That means that we’ve technically hit 50 shows (due to the half-episodes we sporadically release), a milestone we like to refer to as “five times longer than ten times longer than anyone thought we’d be doing the show.” But don’t worry, we are going to fix that, so if for some unfathomable reason you want to go back and listen to the sheer nincompoopery of episode 1, you can.
The actual episode 50 will be hum-dinger of a show, I can tell you all that as well.
Posted on October 25, 2007
Mig Reyes said:
I can totally tell Debbie has a crush on Einstein, her round table at the AIGA National Conference was definitely indicative of that!
Posted on October 26, 2007
benswift said:
I don’t do podcasts, so is there anyway you guys can publish a transcript or a Cliff’s Notes version?
Posted on October 29, 2007
Nate Voss said:
hm. think we’ll probably get tom right on that.
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Posted on October 29, 2007
Tom said:
Quote: “hm. think we’ll probably get tom right on that.”
Sure hope there’s another more different Tom you’re talking about, chief…because when I went to see my psychic yesterday she did not foresee any podcast transcribing in my future. However, she did tell me where to find my lost bicycle. Apparently its in the basement of the Alamo. So I have that goin’ for me. Which is nice.
Posted on October 31, 2007
Acopic - Web Design said:
As a web developer who designs I think this book could prove invaluable. Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll certainly be buying myself a copy for Christmas.
Posted on November 2, 2007
Nathan Freeman said:
Another stellar episode as usual. Einstein & Hawkings…two men with really crazy and out there ideas for their times. What designer wouldn’t admire them?
Posted on November 7, 2007