Why Design Matters: Conversations with the Worlds Most Creative People

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Foreword by Roxane Gay Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast about how the most creative people in the world create their lives to the page with this excellent interview anthology. Sharpened by Millmans penetrating commentary the candid musings teem with insight and empathy. This sparkling collection is one to be savored slowly.Publishers Weekly The author educator brand consultant and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast Design Matters showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews bringing together insights and reflections from todays leading creative minds from across diverse fields. Debbie Millman has become a singular voice in the world of intimate enlightening conversations. She has demonstrated time and again why design matters.Roxane Gay from the foreword Over the course of her popular podcasts fifteen-year reign Debbie Millman has interviewed more than 400 creative minds. In those conversations she has not only explored what it means to design a creative life but has as Millmans wife Roxane Gay assesses in her foreword created a gloriously interesting and ongoing conversation about what it means to live well overcome trauma face rejection learn to love and be loved and thrive both personally and professional. In this illustrated curated anthology Millman includes approximately 80 of her best interviews with visionaries from across diverse fields. Grouped by categoryLegends Truth Tellers Culture Makers Trendsetters and Visionariesthese eye-opening entertaining and enlightening conversationsoffer insights into new ways of being and living. Accompanying each entry is a brief biography a portrait photographed by Millman and a pull quote written in Millmans artistic hand. Why Design Matters features 100 images and includes interviews with: Marina Abramovic Cey Adams Elizabeth Alexander Laurie Anderson Lynda Barry Allison Bechdel Michael Bierut Bren Brown Alain de Botton Eve Ensler Shepard Fairey Tim Ferriss Louise Fili Kenny Fries Anand Girhidardas Cindy Gallop Malcolm Gladwell Milton Glaser Ira Glass Seth Godin Thelma Golden Gabrielle Hamilton Steven Heller Jessica Hische Michael R. Jackson Oliver Jeffers Saeed Jones Thomas Kail Maira Kalman Chip Kidd Anne Lamott Elle Luna Carmen Maria Machado Thomas Page McBee Erin McKeown Chanel Miller Mike Mills Marilyn Minter Isaac Mizrahi Nico Muhly Eileen Myles Emily Oberman Amanda Palmer Priya Parker Esther Perel Maria Popova Edel Rodriguez Paula Scher Amy Sherald Simon Sinek Pete Souza Aminatou Sow Brandon Stanton Cheryl Strayed Amber Tamblyn Christina Tosi Tea Uglow Chris Ware and Albert Watson.