James Victore
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2010
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, James Victore discusses his book, putting his opinion in the work and the difference between God-jobs and money jobs.
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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. |
| 0:25.9 | Geographical restrictions apply, minimum spend plus charges apply, terms at Akado.com. |
| 0:34.3 | This is Design Matters with Debbie Melman from Design Observer.com. |
| 0:44.2 | On this program, Debbie Millman talks with James Victoria about his apprenticeship and graphic design, |
| 0:50.1 | about the role of opinion in his work, and about his suspicions of surface beauty and polish. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm trying to get to a place that is even more clumsy, less finished, less perfect. |
| 1:06.1 | Here's Debbie Millman. |
| 1:08.6 | James Victoria, Inc. is an independent design studio, hell-bent, on world domination. |
| 1:15.3 | This is the very first thing you read when you Google James Victoria. |
| 1:19.4 | And there you have this artist and designer in a nutshell. |
| 1:23.4 | Playful, hyperbolic, humorous, fierce, and maybe even a little ruthless. |
| 1:30.4 | Whether it's a skull sticking out of patriotic tongue or the words, use a condom scrawled |
| 1:36.5 | over the silhouette of mating rabbits, Victoria pushes his ideas into the public arena with |
| 1:42.5 | moral fearlessness and visual force. His work has won awards |
| 1:47.4 | for many national and international design competitions, including an Emmy Award for Television |
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