Best of Design Matters: Dr. D’Wayne Edwards

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Over the course of his storied career as a designer and educator, Dr. D’Wayne Edwards has created more than 500 footwear styles for premier entertainers such as Tupac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, and Notorious B.I.G. His designs have been worn in six Olympics and graced all MLB, NFL, and NBA stadiums. He joins to talk about his remarkable career and current role as President of Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Got a business problem?
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0:10.4	Stay updated on everything business, on Ted Business, a podcast hosted by Columbia Business
0:15.2	School Professor Modoupe Akinola.
0:18.0	Every week, she'll introduce you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions
0:22.4	like, how do four day work weeks work?
0:25.3	Do will a machine ever take my job?
0:27.7	Got some surprising answers on Ted Business, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.2	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in December of 2022.
0:39.5	Here I am, I'm 24 years old, and I'm designing shoes for these guys who are younger than me,
0:48.0	by the name of Tupac, by the name of notorious BIG, and Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg, and Puffy,
0:55.8	and not knowing that these would become hip-hop royalty.
1:04.1	From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
1:11.6	For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people
1:15.0	about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about,
1:19.2	and working on.
1:20.6	In this episode, she designer Dwayne Edwards talks about how competition helped his craft.
1:25.6	Okay, I'm going to be next to the best, I mean, where do I stack up in that equation?
1:31.4	Truth be told, though, Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls, being serious, is almost like the video for
1:39.1	how can it be, where you're just kind of waiting for him to crack a joke, and then he doesn't.
1:43.8	You're waiting for the host of this week's Saturday Night Live to come walking in to tell
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