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A chill show about creative work and what it teaches us, by @iamli.am design-notes.show

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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 5h
James Bridle joins the show to discuss his book “New Dark Age” and the importance of understanding the systems we live with. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-its-lik... #ArtAndTech #DigitalCulture #NetworkThinking #Podcast
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What It's Like to Really Know: James Bridle, “New Dark Age”
James Bridle explores the importance of having agency in the complex systems in which we live.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 23/09/2026
In this episode, Liam speaks with Clinton Cargill, then visual director at Vanity Fair about what motivates creative work. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-do-you-... #Photography #EditorialDesign
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What Do You See; How Do You Feel? Clinton Cargill, Visual Director, Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair’s visual director Clinton Cargill on looking at photography with intent.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 16/09/2026
Liam speaks with Mitch Paone, Principle at DIA Studio, about the difference between intuitive and analytical creativity. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/how-to-desig... #KineticTypography #MotionDesign
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How to Design Like a Jazz Musician: Mitch Paone, Principle, Dia Studio
DIA Principle and Creative Director Mitch Paone on the parallels between jazz and design practice.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 09/09/2026
Aaron Lammer speaks with Molly Wright Steenson about pattern languages and the important similarities between architecture and AI. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/when-buildin... #Architecture #AI
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When Buildings Get Bored: Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence”
Designer and professor Molly Wright Steenson on lessons from the early foundations of AI.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 26/08/2026
Revisit this special series of four interviews with the winners of the 2019 Material Design Awards and what goes into creating an award-winning app. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/material-des... #MaterialDesign #AppDesign #UX #DesignAwards #Podcast
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Material Design Awards, 2019
How four teams harnessed Material’s components and code to craft award-winning experiences.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 19/08/2026
The designers and sisters behind NYC-based label William Okpo detail the intersection of expression and utility in fashion design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/wearable-art... #FashionDesign
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Wearable Art: William Okpo, Fashion Designers Lizzy & Darlene Okpo
Exploring the intersection of expression and utility in fashion design.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 12/08/2026
In this episode, Liam speaks with interdisciplinary designer Sang Mun of YAW Studio, behind the anti-surveillance ZXX typeface. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/hidden-desig... #InterdisciplinaryDesign #SystemsThinking #Art #Podcast
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Hidden Design: Sang Mun, YAW Studio
Interdisciplinary designer Sang Mun on how privacy-focused design can empower users.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 29/07/2026
Aaron Lammer speaks with the founder of the research studio ATONATON, Madeline Gannon, about how she created an industrial robot outfitted with sensors that bring out its curious personality. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/madeline-gan... #Robotics #HCI #AI
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Can Robots Be Curious? Madeline Gannon, Design Researcher and Robot Tamer
Design researcher Madeline Gannon on taming robots and reinventing the ways humans and machines interact.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 22/07/2026
Liam sits down with the winners of the 2018 Material Design Awards to discuss how they each adopted and extended Material to build expressive, inspirational experiences. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/material-des... #MaterialDesign #UX #AppDesign
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Material Design Awards 2018
How four teams harnessed Material’s components and code to craft award-winning experiences.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 15/07/2026
Liam speaks with Katie Garcia and Dustin Payseur, who together run the music label Bayonet Records. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/i-hate-music... #MusicIndustry #IndieMusic
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I Hate Music Videos (But I Love Making Music): Katie Garcia & Dustin Payseur, Bayonet Records
Bayonet Records founders Katie Garcia and Dustin Payseur on collaborating with musicians.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 08/07/2026
Liam speaks with the founders of Panimation, a platform for women, trans, and non-binary animators and motion designers. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/you-cannot-b... #Animation #Community #MotionDesign #Podcast
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You Cannot Be What You Cannot See: Bee Grandinetti & Hedvig Ahlberg, Panimation
Exploring the music and movement of motion design with Bee Grandinetti and Hedvig Ahlberg.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 24/06/2026
Liam speaks with Ryan Snelson about redesigning MySpace, championing a gritty and expressive experimental aesthetic, and understanding the constraints of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-aestheti... #WebDesign #Aesthetics #MySpace
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The Aesthetics of Overload: Ryan Snelson
Designer Ryan Snelson on inventing your own aesthetic and challenging industry norms.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 17/06/2026
Hear from the winners of 2017's Material Design awards, who sat down to talk with Liam while being honored for their work at SPAN Pittsburgh. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/material-des... #MaterialDesign #DesignAwards #AppDesign #UX #Podcast
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Material Design Awards 2017
Talking design systems and user-first experiences with the winners of the 2017 Material Design Awards
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 10/06/2026
The brother and sister team behind Ateljé Sotamaa talk emotionally-appealing objects and holistic architectural environments. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/we-should-do... #Architecture #IndustrialDesign #Collaboration #Podcast
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“We Should Do Something Together.” Tuuli & Kivi Sotamaa, Ateljé Sotamaa
Tuuli and Kivi Sotamaa discuss their very first collaboration and an interest in experiences that aren’t stripped of friction.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 27/05/2026
Bethany Fong, the design director behind many of Material's signature components, unpacks the mechanics of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/fab-componen... #MaterialDesign #UI #ComponentDesign #DesignSystems #Podcast
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Design Notes Podcast | Bethany Fong
How the heady early days of Material unfolded.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 20/05/2026
Liam speaks with illustrator Libby VanderPloeg about how she relates to her work and what happens when the work takes on a life of its own. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/design-humor... #Illustration #ArtForChange #Humor #SocialGood #Podcast
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Design, Humor, and Social Change: Libby VanderPloeg, Illustrator
Illustrator Libby VanderPloeg explores the relationship between art and artist.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 13/05/2026
In this episode, Liam speaks with Harvey Moon in his studio about how tools extend the human capacity for creation. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/how-machines... #NewMediaArt #GenerativeArt #ArtAndTech #Podcast
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How Machines Help Us See Ourselves: Harvey Moon, New Media Artist
On getting to know your tools and the art only technology can create.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 29/04/2026
Liam speaks with Bradley Munkowitz, unpacking GMUNK’s aesthetic, inspired by psychedelic experiences, and why it’s important as a designer to continually challenge and be challenged. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-psychede... #DigitalArt #Creativity
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The Psychedelic Spark: GMUNK
GMUNK on the psychedelic origins of his aesthetic and the importance of discomfort.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 22/04/2026
Rich Fulcher, former Google UX director and Material lead, closes out the series celebrating 10 years of Material Design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/beauty-acros... #MaterialDesign #DesignSystems #UX #DesignLeadership #Podcast
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Beauty Across the Board: Rich Fulcher, UX Director
Rich Fulcher on game design, UX systems, and beautifying Google products
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 15/04/2026
Artist Laurie Rosenwald's recipe for creative breakthroughs includes making mistakes on purpose. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/magic-questi... #Creativity #DesignThinking #Art #Podcast
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The Magic Question for Creativity: Laurie Rosenwald, Illustrator and Author
Illustrator and author Laurie Rosenwald on how to make mistakes on purpose and avoiding being alone with a blank page.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 08/04/2026
Musical Theater Composer Will Larche unpacks his path through Material Design engineering and where the system is headed. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/code-creativ... #Coding #Creativity #ArtAndTech #Podcast
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Design Notes Podcast | Bethany Fong
Engineering as the "study of making choices."
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 25/03/2026
In this episode, Liam speaks with game designer and philosopher Bennett Foddy about using frustration as a design pattern. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/throw-away-t... #GameDesign #UX #Philosophy #Art #Podcast
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Throw Away the Settings Menu: Bennett Foddy, Game Designer, “Getting Over It”
Game designer Bennett Foddy on “Getting Over It” and the expressive power of frustration.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 18/03/2026
For SF Design Week, Liam spoke with Julian Zigerli, a designer in Zürich creating clothing that allows everyone to decide how what they wear expresses who they are. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/julian-ziger... #FashionDesign #Creativity #Podcast
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Fashion From Another Planet: Julian Zigerli, Zürich Fashion Designer [SF Design Week]
Fashion designer Julian Zigerli on un-gendering clothes, cultural influence, and adaptation.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 11/03/2026
Marko Ahtisaari, former product design lead at Nokia, and co-founder of Dopplr and Sync Project on the music of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-music-of... #FinnishDesign #ProductDesign #Music #Podcast
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The Music of Design: Marko Ahtisaari
Taking a holistic perspective on Finnish design tradition, Marko Ahtisaari unpacks how the country’s societal values shaped its technologies.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 25/02/2026
Designer and educator David Reinfurt returns to the show to discuss his book, A *Co-* Program for Graphic Design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/true-is-bett... #GraphicDesign #DesignTheory #DesignEducation #Podcast
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True is Better Than New: David Reinfurt, A *Co–* Program for Graphic Design
How individual perspective is the real driver of design as a practice.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 20/02/2026
Rob Giampietro returns to the show to unpack the story behind Notion Faces, including the decision to scale with human illustrators instead of AI. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/notion-faces... #Design #Branding #AI #Podcast
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The User Brings the Confetti: Rob Giampietro on Scaling a Human-Centered Brand
Rob details Notion Faces' journey from an internal tradition to a major public launch, including the pivotal decision to scale with human illustrators instead of AI.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 17/02/2026
In a new ep, I spoke with my friend Louise Macfadyen about her upcoming book, “Designing AI Interfaces.” We cover a bit of computing history, why the text box might be holding us back, and how to design honest interfaces in an era of hype. #designsky Tune in: design-notes.show#beyond-the-t...
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 11/02/2026
Jesse Reed, designer and co-founder of Standards Manual—discusses the preservation of historic style guides and designed artifacts. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/absolutely-e... #GraphicDesign #DesignHistory
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Absolutely Everything Is a Lesson: Jesse Reed, Standards Manual
Identity designer Jesse Reed on the lasting power of brand standards.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 28/01/2026
Cameron Koczon how Fictive Kin’s product development starts with “a Seinfeld” - an app that does nothing - and ends with a polished core experience. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/designing-to... #ProductDesign #UX #ToolMaking #Software #Podcast
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Designing Tools is Awesome: Cameron Koczon, Partner at Fictive Kin
Fictive Kin’s Cameron Koczon on understanding the foundational impact of design.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 21/01/2026
Google Fonts Specialist Dave Crossland explores what type can teach us about digital production, expression, and where designers fit in the world. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/how-fonts-ch... #Typography #Fonts #GraphicDesign
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How Fonts Change the World: Dave Crossland, Google Fonts
Exploring the impact of digital type on our lives, on software production, and on the future of design.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 14/01/2026
A transdisciplinary artist, Stephanie Dinkins focuses on AI’s intersection with race, gender, and social equity. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/ai-identity-... #AI #Art #SocialEquity #Storytelling #Podcast
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AI, Identity, and Storytelling: Stephanie Dinkins
Stephanie Dinkins unpacks why we should engage with AI, and her experience befriending the AI robot Bina48.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 31/12/2025
In this episode, Liam speaks with artist Qianqian Ye in her San Francisco studio about exploring vulnerability through art and code. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/vulnerabilit... #ArtAndTech #CreativeCoding #Vulnerability #Art #Podcast
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Vulnerability, Technology, and Art: Qianqian Ye, Artist & Creative Coder
Exploring our shared vulnerabilities—and shared futures—in ink and code.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 24/12/2025
In David Reinfurt's first appearance on Design Notes, we talked design education, perspective, and creative renewal. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/a-prompt-for... #GraphicDesign #DesignProcess #Creativity #Podcast
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A Prompt for Creative Renewal: David Reinfurt, “A *New* Program for Graphic Design”
ORG Founder David Reinfurt on how identity intersects design, and what art and design have in common.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 17/12/2025
Aaron Lammer speaks with Design Director Isabelle Olsson, who oversees CMF (color, material, and finish) for all Google hardware. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/asking-how-d... #IndustrialDesign #Hardware #CMF #EmotionalDesign #Podcast
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Asking, “How Does It Make You Feel?” Isabelle Olsson, VP of Design, Google Home
Isabelle Olsson explores the approach that lead to the unique aesthetic of Google hardware.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 10/12/2025
From sand lot to playground, Amber Bravo speaks with architecture critic and author Alexandra Lange about her book, The Design of Childhood. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/design-of-ch... #DesignForKids #Architecture #Play #Childhood #Podcast
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Cardboard Carpentry: Alexandra Lange, “The Design of Childhood”
Architecture critic Alexandra Lange explores the design of childhood — from the sandbox to the street.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 27/11/2025
Liam speaks to Tom Boellstorff, whose ethnographic work in Second Life provides insights into how virtuality informs our lives in actual space. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/digital-anth... #Anthropology #VirtualWorlds #SecondLife
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Digital Anthropology: Tom Boellstorff, “Coming of Age in Second Life”
Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff on life—and the future—in virtual space.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 26/11/2025
In a brand-new Design Notes, I sat down with SVP of Design for Expedia Group (and former colleague) Rachel Been. We talked about the importance of care in design as we move forward into a new chapter for the conversational surface. design-notes.show#the-era-of-t... #designsky
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The Era of the Generalist • Rachel Been, SVP of Design, Expedia Group
Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Liam Spradlin.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 19/11/2025
In this episode, Liam speaks with Judith Donath, the founder of MIT’s Sociable Media Lab, inventor of e-cards, and author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/judith-donat... #HCI #Sociology #Podcast
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Coding (and Decoding) Social Spaces: Judith Donath, Founder, MIT Sociable Media Group
Exploring potential futures for life online and the joy of learning (and sharing) something new.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 17/11/2025
New Design Notes and Doubleshot coming this week :)
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 12/11/2025
Material Design founder Matías Duarte joins the show to explore the inception, evolution, and future of Google’s design approach. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/facing-our-i... #MaterialDesign #UIDesign #FutureOfDesign
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Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte, Google
Matías Duarte on why the interface's only limitation is imagination... and battery life.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 02/11/2025
📣 Calling all Design Notes listeners: What other design or creative podcasts do you listen to regularly? Let me know in the replies! #designsky
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 29/10/2025
Liam speaks with Aline Borges, a Zürich-based floral designer who’s made the leap from fashion coordination for magazines to independent floral design and installations. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/fearless-des... #FloralDesign #Creativity
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Fearless Design: Aline Borges, The Florist
The power of composition, and the importance of community.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 22/10/2025
Trying out a new format for podcast uploads on YouTube—a subtle animated background and the show transcript timed to the episode youtu.be/P6TEb_Fmflo
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 22/10/2025
Liam speaks with Talbot & Yoon, a New York-based design firm focused on objects and furniture about the importance of play in design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/from-war-roo... #FurnitureDesign #IndustrialDesign
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From War Room to Playroom: Talbot & Yoon, Furniture and Object Designers
Talbot & Yoon discuss designing objects that encourage play.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 17/10/2025
Can technical expertise be a creative trap? In a new Design Notes, Fabian Bircher explains how to break free of what's technically possible to make a greater creative impact. interfacecafe.com/other-than-e...
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Other Than Expected: Fabian Bircher on Combining Art, Architecture, and Code
Fabian discusses his unique creative process, where inspiration flows from both artistic concepts and the discovery of new technological possibilities.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 15/10/2025
In this episode, Liam speaks with Conor Grebel about how lived experiences inform and are conveyed through creative work. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/art-as-survi... #Art #Creativity #Storytelling #Podcast
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Art as Survival: Conor Grebel, Bedtimes
Artist Conor Grebel unpacks the relationship between his personal experiences and creative work.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 14/10/2025
In a 🆕 episode, Zürich-based designer Fabian Bircher talks about exposing unseen elements of the environment around us and his unique creative process which combines art and code. 📻 Tune in: design-notes.show#other-than-e... #designsky
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 08/10/2025
In this episode, guest host Barbara Eldredge turns the tables, interviewing host Liam Spradlin about his own creative journey. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-we-can-... #Design #CreativeProcess #Podcast
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What We Can Learn From Our Work: Liam Spradlin, Host of Design Notes
Host Liam Spradlin reflects on the first 25 episodes of the podcast.
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 03/10/2025
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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 09/09/2025
🆕 In this episode, type designer, instructor, and design coach Troy Leinster talks about the advantages of a tactile practice, and how learning type design makes you a better designer. 📻 Tune in: design-notes.show#design-cant-... #designsky
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