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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Neville Brody

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this episode, Debbie brings the great English designer, typographer, and art director Neville Brody to the stage.



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0:00.0

They did it again. Flower, instead of flowers, on my birthday. And 95 minutes late, but it's hard to leave when you've shared so much. Your postcode, your gluten intolerance. Then I saw it. 25% off your first Akado shop, plus free delivery. And I just knew I'd found the online supermarket of my dreams.

0:21.8

Arcado, life delivered. Geographical restrictions, mined spend 60 pounds and charges apply.

0:26.7

Max saving 20 pounds, new customers only, terms at Accardo.com.

0:32.2

And it's not about measuring success by did you get a job or did you pass or any of those quantitative things?

0:41.3

It's have you graduated as a free aware thinker with the skills to work across different disciplines.

0:51.8

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

0:56.7

Design Matters is on summer break and we'll be back in the fall with a new season.

1:01.3

In the meantime, we're sharing some of the interviews Debbie has recently done in front of a live audience.

1:06.4

This one is with Neville Brody, the great English designer, typographer, and art director. In the 1980s,

1:12.8

Brody worked for Fetish Records and For the Face, which revolutionized art direction for magazines.

1:18.9

The interview took place in January 2018 in Atlanta during an AIGA conference. Here's Debbie Millman,

1:25.7

live with Neville Brody.

1:36.5

After you were at Fetish, you then went to the face, and that work has been credited with revolutionizing the way in which designers and readers approach graphics. Did you start

1:43.5

there thinking, okay, I am now going to change everything?

1:52.4

Okay, so I was working on a fetish and the face at the same time.

1:55.7

Okay. And a number of other things. I'd set up my own studio. Right. So after

2:00.2

Rocking Russian, you never work for anybody again. Well, Stiff Rackles for a year. And I got fired for being late. Being late? Yeah. Just coming in late? No, no. Actually, no, I was told officially, we're not firing you for being late every single day. We're firing you for not apologizing for it. Wow, that's a control issue.

2:01.0

Yeah.

2:01.5

Wow. We're firing you for not apologizing for it.

2:20.3

Wow, that's a control issue.

2:21.4

Wow.

2:23.6

So they wanted you to be remorseful?

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