Best of Design Matters: Rob Walker

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Rob Walker discusses his interest in death and how our digital records remain online, being shy and how this influenced his decision to become a journalist, writing about the sleeved blanket known as the snuggie, and the wish to brand the idea of "be happy for what you have."

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0:00.0	I think that the idea of humans wanting more, I mean, it's the nature of us, is that
0:13.8	get as much as you can, and stockpile it, and just like consume as much as you can now
0:20.5	because you don't know what's going to happen next.
0:25.8	From a TED audio collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
0:32.8	For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with some of the world's most creative people
0:36.8	about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and
0:40.8	working on.
0:41.8	And now, some of those interviews appear in print in Debbie's brand new book, Why Design
0:47.0	Matters.
0:48.0	Conversations with the world's most creative people.
0:50.6	It's coming out in February of 2022.
0:54.0	In anticipation of the book, every Thursday, we're going to be releasing an interview from
0:58.2	the archives in addition to our new episodes that come out on Mondays.
1:02.7	We thought it would be fun for listeners to hear, not only some great interviews, but
1:06.4	also to hear how the podcast has evolved over the years.
1:10.6	In February of 2011, Debbie interviewed journalist Rob Walker about Consumersum and about
1:16.5	his fantasy branding project.
1:18.3	It would love to hire like the brightest, sexiest minds in branding to help me spread the
1:24.3	message of, be happy for what you have.
1:27.7	Rob Walker, After the Break.
1:31.0	There's another podcast you might enjoy.
1:32.7	It's called Am I Normal from the TED audio collective.
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