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Design Matters will be back very soon with new episodes.

This archival episode was originally posted in October of 2014. This is

design matters with Debe Milman from 2014.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.

com from Design Observer.com.

On this program Debbie talks with Ben Schott about the importance of failing early in one's career, about how to take a politician's picture,

and about writing and designing his own books.

I think that's what differentiates me.

I'm not really a writer and I'm not really a designer.

I'm a writer who uses design and a designer uses words.

Here is Debbie Milman.

Here are a couple of things we learn from Ben Schott's

original miscellaneous.

In 19th century English public schools, an undersized boy was called a nester.

And if a boy was surprised by something, he might say, beards.

On the next page, you'll learn more than you ever thought possible about glove sizes,

both English and Continental.

Ben Schott's career has been almost as varied as the topics that fill his books.

He spent the first part of his professional life working for an ad agency

before heading off to become a freelance portrait photographer.

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