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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Carrie Brownstein

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Celebrated musician, comedian, writer, and director Carrie Brownstein joins to talk about her remarkable career as the co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist of the legendary punk band Sleater-Kinney, her role in the iconic TV series Portlandia, and her new memoir.

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0:00.0

This episode of Design Matters originally dropped in March of 2024.

0:06.1

I also like to be a voice for those of us who are discontent.

0:11.8

For those of us who are still clawing and fighting and wrestling and thrashing about, Those are my people.

0:24.1

From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

0:31.3

For 19 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about

0:35.8

what they do, how they got to be

0:37.5

who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, Carrie Brownstein

0:42.7

talks about her career as a punk musician and her other career as a writer and comedian.

0:48.2

I want life to feel urgent. I want art to feel urgent.

0:57.0

Music I want art to feel urgent. I want art to feel urgent. This time last year, Hassan was working in sales and spent his evenings gaming.

1:07.0

Now he's working as a prison officer.

1:09.0

You know what's going to happen. It's not where it's just going there.

1:12.4

He's tackled cell fires, got through to some of the most challenging prisoners,

1:16.0

and helped support their rehabilitation.

1:18.7

He's done things he once thought he was never capable of.

1:22.3

But he still loves his gaming.

1:24.8

An extraordinary job done by someone like you.

1:28.4

Search prison jobs now.

1:30.0

Great value speaks for itself.

1:32.1

Just ask our customers.

1:33.6

If somebody said to me that they wouldn't use Accardo because it was expensive,

1:37.6

I would say to them, have you even tried?

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