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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Emily Oberman

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Emily Oberman's three acts — from Tibor Kalman at M&Co, to Number Seventeen with Bonnie Siegler, to becoming a partner at Pentagram.



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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective.

0:02.0

Audio Collective.

0:04.0

This is Design Matters with

0:10.0

Deppy Millman from design observer.com.

0:15.0

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Emily Oberman about working for a T-Bor-Calman,

0:22.0

starting a studio with Bonnie Seagler, and now working for a T-Bor-Calman, starting a studio with Bonnie Seagler,

0:24.2

and now working for a pentagram.

0:25.8

Also, what motivates her?

0:27.4

Fear has always been a really good motivating factor

0:30.8

for me.

0:31.1

It's kind of been a driving force in my life. It gets me out of bed in the

0:35.9

morning and it helps me go to sleep at night because I'm afraid that if I'm too tired I won't do well

0:40.8

the next day. Here's Debbie Millman.

0:43.0

Chances are you've seen Emily Oberman's design work.

0:47.0

Oberman has worked for This American Life, Orbits, and Lucky magazine.

0:52.0

She's worked for MTV. orbits and lucky magazine.

0:53.0

She's worked for MTV, VH1, and HBO.

0:57.0

And for the past 18 years,

1:00.0

she's designed the title sequences for Saturday Night Live.

1:05.0

Oberman did all this while at number 17, which closed one year ago this month,

1:10.0

after an 18-year run.

1:12.0

Soon after, Oberman became a partner at Pentagon,

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