Ted Audio Collective There's like the scientific side of it and the

unscientific side of it and I think the unscientific side of it is just you're

just born with this ability to kind of know what's cool like right before it

hits and there's inklings but you kind of can see this amplification in your

mind for some reason and then the scientific part is just how much time we

spend researching. From the Ted Audio Collective this is Design Matters with Debbie

Millman. For 18 years Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other

creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are and what

they're thinking about and working on. On this episode Monica Kimseroff and Jill

Singer talk about the meaning of the stuff we put in our homes. Each object

should really be like a reflection of your personality or say something about

your life story in some way. If you plug the phrase site unseen into your

search engine it will lead you to an array of places. There are several movies

with that title and some books but there is only one website that will rise to

the top of your search and it's an online magazine about design, art and the

objects in our lives. SiteUnseen.com is where a lot of designers and

taste makers go to find what's new and interesting and utterly unique at our

visual culture. Now the founders and editors of SiteUnseen.com have decided to

write a book and its title is How to Live with Objects, a guide to more meaningful

interiors. As you can imagine it's big, bold and beautiful just like their site.

Today co-founders and co-writers Monica Kimseroff and Jill Singer join me to

talk about their popular website, their new book and about how to make a house

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