Susan Szenasy
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Susan S. Szenasy is editor-in-chief of METROPOLIS, the award-winning New York City-based magazine of architecture and design.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com. |
| 0:14.0 | On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Susan Sonazzi |
| 0:19.7 | about her long career as a magazine editor, |
| 0:22.1 | about sustainability and design, and about what it takes |
| 0:25.0 | to succeed as a designer. |
| 0:26.5 | I think you have to have a predisposition for inquiry and for curiosity, and I hate to say this but I give up on the rest of them. |
| 0:36.1 | I can't I can't be mother to everybody. |
| 0:38.5 | Here's Debbie Milne. |
| 0:41.2 | At the heart of any successful magazine is the editor-in-chief. |
| 0:46.0 | And at the best magazines, you'll find that the editor-in-chief has been there a very long time. |
| 0:52.0 | Such is the case at Metropolis, |
| 0:54.0 | the magazine of architecture, culture, and design. |
| 0:58.0 | Susan Sonasi has been its chief editor since 1986, |
| 1:02.0 | that's nearly 30 years at the helm of a magazine in an |
| 1:07.0 | extremely volatile media environment. |
| 1:10.3 | Susan also is the author of several books on design and she teaches design history as well. |
| 1:16.0 | She joins me today at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. |
| 1:20.0 | Susan, welcome to Design Matters. |
| 1:22.0 | Thanks for having me here. |
| 1:23.6 | Susan, is it true that the first job you got after graduating college |
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