AIGA Design Podcast
Exploring design's past, present, and future insights.
AIGA Design Podcast
Exploring design's past, present, and future insights.
About AIGA Design Podcast
Exploring design's past, present, and future insights.
The official podcast feed of AIGA, the professional association for design. We explore various facets of the design discipline, profession, and industry to help our listeners learn about the past and present and prepare for the future.
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Recent Episodes
Designing for the World We Live In: Aleksey Fedorov on Meaning, Performance, and Brand Impact
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 23, 2025
The Human Element People First: Devika Menon on Participatory Service Design
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 17, 2025
Shaping Your Path: Kevin Flores on Career Growth, AI and Design Leadership
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 9, 2025
George Aye, Pissed-Off Optimist and Co-Founder of Greater Good Studio
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 29, 2025
Navigating Intersections: Sahar Chung on Design, Performance, and Inclusivity
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 9, 2025
Embracing Change: Helder Santo's Journey in Design and Technology
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 30, 2025
Beyond the Brand: Building Ideas Worth Rallying Around with Sunny Bonnell
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 8, 2025
Catalyzing Change: Maria Fernanda La Rotta on Strategic Design for an Inclusive Future
AIGA Design Podcast • Jun 24, 2025
Design at Scale: Richard Moross and the Story of MOO
AIGA Design Podcast • May 21, 2025
Designing Change in Bureaucracy with Ivan Boscariol
AIGA Design Podcast • May 6, 2025
Designing Memory: Exploring Syria’s Creative Legacy with Kinda Ghannoum
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 21, 2025
Humanizing Creativity Through Physical Design with Michael Kaye of Sylvain
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 3, 2025
Making Work Suck Less with Erin Shems, Ezippy Co., Creative Operations Agency
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 4, 2025
How to Work Less, Earn More with Karl Sakas
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 18, 2025
Scott Berkun on Why Design is Hard
AIGA Design Podcast • Jan 23, 2025
Data Visualization & Migration with Marta Foresti & Federica Fragapane from the LAGO Collective
AIGA Design Podcast • Jan 9, 2025
Assembling Tomorrow with Scott Doorley & Carissa Carter from the Stanford d.school
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 18, 2024
Design + Performance (New Season/Theme) with Gary Jaffe, Independent Filmmaker
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 11, 2024
Robert Brunner on Designing Products for Scale
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 17, 2024
Clip: Robert Brunner on changing his major to design
AIGA Design Podcast • Aug 26, 2024
Community Engagement & Cultural Change with Jenn Stucker
AIGA Design Podcast • Aug 12, 2024
Clip: Community Engagement & Cultural Change with Jenn Stucker
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 31, 2024
Designing Airline Brands with Edmond Huot
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 15, 2024
Designing a Design Conference with Lee-Sean Huang (Special Episode)
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 3, 2024
Clip: Designing Airline Brands with Edmond Huot
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 1, 2024
From the Margins to the Mainstream with Vault49
AIGA Design Podcast • Jun 18, 2024
Pivoting your Creative Business with Matthew McIver
AIGA Design Podcast • May 20, 2024
Clip: Margins and Padding of Running a Studio with Matt McIver
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 3, 2024
Crafting a Career Roadmap with Sarah Doody
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 18, 2024
Clip: Designing Your Career with Sarah Doody
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 7, 2024
Why design research is stuck with Danny Spitzberg and Humphrey Obuobi
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 20, 2024
Clip: Why Design Research is Stuck
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 14, 2024
Welcome to the 2024 Season of AIGA Design Podcast: MARGINS
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 5, 2024
Clip: Colton Schweitzer on UX bootcamps and gaps in design curricula
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 12, 2023
Colton Schweitzer on Kickass UX
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 4, 2023
Maigen Thomas on career changes and starting a new design job
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 9, 2023
Pentagram 50 at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 28, 2023
Clip: Steven Steiner on Designer Archetypes
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 27, 2023
Steven Steiner on designer archetypes, career coaching, and communicating your value
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 20, 2023
FEED SWAP: Yellow Glitter, Collective Change and Community-Centered Design with Lee-Sean Huang
AIGA Design Podcast • Aug 22, 2023
Learning with Ritesh Gupta, Useful School
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 20, 2023
From the Archives: Matt Groening at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 4, 2023
Rodrigo Canales and Michael Bierut on Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 15, 2023
Hugh Dubberly on design as finding balance in systems and why problem solving is not enough
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 9, 2023
The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection with Anne H. Berry, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters (RECORDED LIVE in Seattle at the AIGA Design Conference)
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 5, 2022
FEED SWAP - Did I Do That? - The Surreal World with Lee-Sean Huang
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 28, 2022
FEED SWAP - The Futures Archive S02E10: Automatic Door
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 7, 2022
Design Adjacent with Shauna Carey, Chief Executive Officer, IDEO.org on gratitude, social impact, finding the best solutions, challenges, curving paths, and small steps to the future
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 25, 2022
Design Adjacent with Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Marty Maxwell Lane on collaboration, importance of seeing people in person, shared values and goals, and working through challenges
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 20, 2022
Design Adjacent with Zachary Kaiser, Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University on design and technology, privacy, and writing
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 18, 2022
Design Adjacent with Camille Finan, Host and Producer of Remodel Your Life Podcast on false assumptions, finding allies in your space, over meeting expectations, and internalizing functionality
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 13, 2022
Design Adjacent with Paul Taylor, Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, BrandOpus on cracked eggs and iconic brands
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 11, 2022
Design Adjacent with Chris Hervochon, Better Way CPA, virtual CFO for marketing and creative agencies and nonprofit organizations
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 6, 2022
Design Adjacent with AIGA Medalist Archie Boston on design spirituality, art, culture, and industry, learning for the sake of knowledge, capturing history, and helping others through design
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 4, 2022
Fireside Chat with Robin Petravic, Co-owner and Managing Director of Heath Ceramics
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 22, 2022
Design Adjacent with Llisa Demetrios, Chief Curator, Eames Institute on infinite curiosity, chain reactions, design as a method of action, addressing needs, creating connections, and sustainability
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 20, 2022
Fireside Chat with Rick Griffith
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 13, 2022
Design Adjacent with Elise Schuster, Co-Founder and Executive Director, okayso on being a problem solver, standing the gap, creating safe spaces, and building a human first organization.
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 6, 2022
Design Adjacent with Margot Bloomstein, Author, Principal of Appropriate, Inc. on interpersonal relationships, leading with the human side, what a company can do to demonstrate trust
AIGA Design Podcast • Aug 23, 2022
Design Adjacent with Meg Mothershed, Strategy Guru and Wordsmith, Mothershed Design Co. on being an entrepreneur, what it means to be chief champion for yourself, work life balance and more
AIGA Design Podcast • Aug 9, 2022
Design Adjacent with Diana Barnes, Chief Brand Officer and Creative Director at Munchkin on unleashing storytelling in branding, human connectivity, and being the change you want to see in the world
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 26, 2022
Fireside Chat with Art Chantry
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 20, 2022
Design Future Live with Beat Baudenbacher
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 15, 2022
Design Adjacent with Dave Garrett, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at PMI on articulating a vision, co-developing solutions, changing methodology, and having impact
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 12, 2022
Design Adjacent with Ritesh Gupta, Founder of the Useful School on re-visioning design education, radical changes, impact of design, and finding a coach
AIGA Design Podcast • Jun 28, 2022
Design Adjacent with Lisa Sasaki, Interim Director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on field trips, creating connections between people and objects, and museums without walls
AIGA Design Podcast • Jun 14, 2022
Design Adjacent with Regina Bain on preserving a legacy, musical storytelling, clown class, and what it means to listen and respond
AIGA Design Podcast • May 31, 2022
Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Lynda Decker, Creative Director at Decker Design
AIGA Design Podcast • May 19, 2022
Design Adjacent with Catherine Clark, Founder and Paul McDowall on changing spaces, designing around people, and not being perfect
AIGA Design Podcast • May 17, 2022
Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Michael Bierut, Partner at Pentagram
AIGA Design Podcast • May 13, 2022
Fireside Chat with Bennie F. Johnson and Katrina Alcorn, General Manager, Design at IBM
AIGA Design Podcast • May 5, 2022
Design Adjacent with Bret Recor on shifting the agency model, being a true partner, and environmental impact
AIGA Design Podcast • May 3, 2022
Design Future Live with JoAnn Holmes on Intellectual Property and Web3
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 28, 2022
Design Adjacent with Minal Bopaiah on being stewards of equity, storytelling, and being a reluctant entrepreneurship
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 19, 2022
Design Adjacent with Steven Heller on first days, joys of incompetence, and the tentacles of design
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 5, 2022
Design Adjacent with Matt Mullenweg on working remote vs distributed work, music, distractions, and augmented reality
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 22, 2022
Michael Arndt on Snails & Monkey Tails: A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 17, 2022
Ian Lynam on the Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 15, 2022
Design Adjacent with Brandi Parker on sustainability, evolving behaviors, future considerations, and designing recycling
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 8, 2022
Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer.
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 1, 2022
Design Adjacent with Maurice Cherry on analog and digital design, math, and the Metaverses
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 22, 2022
Design Adjacent with Pek Pongpaet on careers, writing code, power of play in problem solving
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 8, 2022
Special Edition: More mentorship, please! But what does that mean?
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 4, 2022
Design Adjacent: Cheryl Heller on career changes, innovation, doing things the hard way, and being an entrepreneur
AIGA Design Podcast • Jan 25, 2022
Design Adjacent with Gail Anderson: road trips, The Jackson Five, design, and investing your time
AIGA Design Podcast • Jan 11, 2022
Fireside Chat with Theresa Fitzgerald, VP Creative, Sesame Workshop
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 22, 2021
Fireside Chat with Randy J. Hunt, former Head of Design at Grab
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 21, 2021
Fireside Chat with Alex Center, Owner, CENTER
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 20, 2021
Design Future Now with Robert Smith, author of Stop Looking For Zebras
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 16, 2021
Design Adjacent - Terry Irwin on wicked problems, shifting mindsets, and tango
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 14, 2021
Design Future Now: Studio HMVD on navigating appropriation and reuse of creative work with integrity
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 10, 2021
Design Adjacent: Isaiah Steinfeld on entrepreneurship, mentorship, and the future of design
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 30, 2021
Design Future Live with Pek Pongpaet
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 26, 2021
Fireside Chat: Art Taylor (Special Giving Tuesday Edition)
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 23, 2021
ReStart: Nicole Belyna on human resources lessons from the pandemic
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 22, 2021
Fireside Chat with Judy Wert on design career paths
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 19, 2021
Design Adjacent: W. David Hubbard on the hows and whys of creativity
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 16, 2021
ReStart: Molly Murphy on using data to design hybrid experiences
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 8, 2021
Design Adjacent: Dominic Grijalva on finding creativity in a pandemic year
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 2, 2021
ReStart: Dr. Tracy Brower on hybrid work, happiness, and creativity.
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 29, 2021
Fireside Chat with Robbie Tseng, Vice President, Growth Design at HBO Max
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 25, 2021
Design Adjacent: Abby Allen on the strategy of design and beauty of storytelling
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 19, 2021
A quick announcement and update: new content coming soon
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 14, 2021
Megan Marini and Priyanka Jain of 3x3 on Community-Centered Urban Design
AIGA Design Podcast • Sep 22, 2021
ReStart: Taking Collective Action with Educators Alex Robins & Annie Larson
AIGA Design Podcast • Aug 12, 2021
ReStart: Teaching Roomies and Zoomies with Allan Chochinov
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 30, 2021
Navigating the disruptions in design education with Lefteris Heretakis
AIGA Design Podcast • Jul 24, 2021
Esther Mun on the joy of staying small and making tangible things
AIGA Design Podcast • Jun 23, 2021
R. Michael Hendrix on What Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation
AIGA Design Podcast • Jun 3, 2021
Fireside Chat with Ben Williams, R/GA Global Chief Experience Officer
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 7, 2020
Fireside Chat with Kayo Roehm, 3M Design Officer
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 27, 2020
Fireside Chat with Dantley Davis, Twitter Chief Design Officer
AIGA Design Podcast • Nov 18, 2020
Lee-Sean gives an update and discusses design and storytelling with Anne-Laure Fayard
AIGA Design Podcast • Oct 21, 2020
Bobby Alexis and Roger Manix on Play
AIGA Design Podcast • May 15, 2020
Richard Ting on Digital Craft
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 29, 2020
Giorgia Lupi on Data Humanism
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 16, 2020
Amanda Makulec on Communicating COVID-19 Data
AIGA Design Podcast • Apr 2, 2020
David Carroll on Data Rights
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 18, 2020
Rinat Sherzer on Biomimicry and Gender in Design
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 9, 2020
Sloan Leo on Community Building as Design Practice
AIGA Design Podcast • Mar 2, 2020
Paul Pangaro on Design for/as Conversation
AIGA Design Podcast • Feb 12, 2020
Deborah Littlejohn and Randa Hadi, Data, Damn Lies, and Disruption
AIGA Design Podcast • Jan 31, 2020
Kim Erwin, healthcare delivery designer and researcher
AIGA Design Podcast • Jan 23, 2020
Miya Osaki and Tina Park, Healthcare Experience Designers, Educators, and Podcasters
AIGA Design Podcast • Jan 15, 2020
Jack Roberts, Cherokee author, designer, educator, and filmmaker
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 23, 2019
Sarah Gibbons and Jodi Forlizzi, AIGA Design Conference 2020 Speakers
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 17, 2019
AIGA Design Future Now Extended Trailer
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 16, 2019
AIGA Design Future Now Teaser
AIGA Design Podcast • Dec 15, 2019
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