Steven Heller
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On this podcast Debbie talks to Steven Heller about his attitude when he was a young designer.
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| 0:31.5 | This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com. |
| 0:42.7 | For 12 years now, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative types about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about. |
| 0:51.2 | On this podcast, Debbie Milman talks with Stephen Heller about his attitude when he was a young |
| 0:55.8 | designer. I was short-sighted. I was arrogant. I had a sense of myself that was disproportionate to all |
| 1:03.7 | reality. Here's Debbie Milman. A season of design matters simply wouldn't feel complete without an |
| 1:10.7 | appearance by Stephen |
| 1:11.9 | Heller. He's not just a celebrated designer and art director. He's also a brilliantly prolific |
| 1:18.6 | writer of books, columns, blogs, you name it. Steve has been on the podcast pretty much every |
| 1:25.5 | year since we started 12 years ago, and we |
| 1:28.3 | never run out of things to talk about. This year, we're going to focus on one of his latest |
| 1:33.5 | books, graphic design rants and raves, Walmots, on persuasion, entertainment, education, culture, |
| 1:42.1 | and practice. It's an anthology of essays. Steve has written about everything |
| 1:46.3 | from Paul Rand to the fateful election of 2016. Steve, it's always a pleasure to see you in that |
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