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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with design blogger Grace Bonnie about her changing tastes,

her website, design sponge, and the do-it-yourself ethic that she promotes.

I love interior designers and don't in any way want to belittle the craft that they have,

but there used to be this sense that if you didn't know about designer to go to school for it,

you couldn't have it in your house.

And that's crap.

Here's Debbie Milman.

Design is everywhere these days.

The discipline includes not only traditional graphic design and architecture, but also information and management systems.

Design has simultaneously been democratized with a do-it-yourself ethic encouraging people to take charge of their own material world.

An online hotbed of DIY is Design Sponge, the popular blog devoted to home and product design.

Design Sponge is run by Grace Bonnie, a 29-year-old writer living in Brooklyn, New York.

She is also the author of the book Design Sp Sponge at Home, which will be out this fall.

Welcome to Design Matters. Great. Thanks for having me.

Oh, it's great to have you here. So launched in August of 2004,

Design Sponge was declared a Martha Stewart living for the millennials by the New York Times,

and you have been called a design

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