Design Matters from the Archive: Cindy Gallop
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
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🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Debbie talks to Cindy Gallop about her career in advertising and about the trouble people have communicating about sex. “People therefore find it bizarrely difficult to talk about sex with the people they’re having it with while they are actually having it.”
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| 0:00.0 | Think of shaving cream. |
| 0:01.7 | Essential with nachos or as a dip for potato wedges. |
| 0:04.9 | Now you're thinking, that's not shaving cream, that's sour cream. |
| 0:08.5 | If you think sour cream is shaving cream, then you must be a supermarket delivery substitute. |
| 0:13.6 | Akado has 99% order accuracy. |
| 0:16.5 | So when you think of shaving cream and order shaving cream, you'll get shaving cream. |
| 0:21.1 | Akado, life delivered. |
| 0:22.7 | 99% average order accuracy, Jan to April 2025, geographical restrictions apply, minimum spend, plus charges apply, terms at Akado.com. |
| 0:32.1 | This archival episode of Design Matters was recorded in November 2016. |
| 0:40.2 | This is Design Matters was recorded in November 2016. This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com. |
| 0:47.5 | For 11 years now, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative types about |
| 0:51.9 | what they do, how they got to be who they are, |
| 0:59.2 | and what they're thinking about. On this podcast, Debbie Milman talks with Cindy Gowell, about her career in advertising, and about the trouble people have communicating about sex. |
| 1:03.7 | People therefore find it bizarre, difficult to talk about sex, with the people they're |
| 1:08.0 | actually having it with while they're actually having it. |
| 1:12.1 | Here's Debbie Milman. |
| 1:15.3 | Cindy Gallup has said of herself, |
| 1:17.7 | I like to blow shit up. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm the Michael Bay of business. |
| 1:25.8 | That may be true, but it doesn't describe all the things she has built in her career. |
| 1:32.3 | She used to work in advertising, and now she runs her own brand and business innovation consultancy. She started Make Love Not Porn, a video sharing site that shows how real people have sex to counter the cliches of hardcore porn. |
| 1:42.3 | She also started, If We Ran the World, a site designed to turn good intentions into action. |
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