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Gay wrote the foreword, excerpted on the book’s back cover: “A gloriously interesting and ongoing conversation about what it means to live well, overcome trauma, face rejection, learn to love and be loved, and thrive both personally and professionally.” Like the eclectic art in her home, “Why Design Matters” benefits from the famously happy Millman/Gay union. The interview subjects are divided into “Legends,” “Truth Tellers,” “Culture Makers,” “Trendsetters” and “Visionaries.” Coffee-table-sized, it’s flawlessly rendered: Each spread piques the adventurous curiosity the book advocates, with striking contributor head shots, pops of red ink against pleasingly eccentric type treatments and random squiggles drawn by Millman’s hand. It’s an interesting flex, perhaps more consistent with branding than reality, but the resulting book is the real deal. So I tried to make sense of the name instead, by broadening the word to mean ‘creating our lives intentionally.’ You can apply that to everything: relationships, wardrobe, parenting, how you choose to live.”
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“As a brander, I know better than to take the word ‘design’ out of it. “There’s brand equity in its name,” Millman says. Nonetheless, Millman’s new coffee-table book, which consists of 55 excerpts from the 500 podcast interviews she’s conducted over the last 16 years, appeals to me, and might appeal to you, because it’s more about what matters than it is about design. I covet a beautifully designed home, haircut or website as much as the average Jill.
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“I have spent 16 years consumed by the question of how to conduct a good interview, how to get interesting people to reveal the depths of who they are.”įull disclosure: I’m no design geek.
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“I had achieved a great deal, but there was an echoing vacuum of meaning and purpose in my life … I began to wonder if I had lost my creative soul, or at least abandoned it to my professional ambition.” Then came an offer from VoiceAmerica to host a podcast about design - a guaranteed yawn, Millman thought, unless she could bring the concept to life. running a global brand consultancy,” then quitting her job. In the opening pages of her book, Millman writes about having been “one of the few women in the U.S. home office of Debbie Millman, creator of the long-running podcast “ Design Matters” and the new book, “ Why Design Matters: Conversations With the World’s Most Creative People.” Joining us on the couch, if not in our fascinating conversation, is Max, her meltingly cute maltipoo, a recent gift from her wife, Roxane Gay. I’m nestled into a buttery leather couch in the sun-drenched, art-filled L.A.
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