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AIGA Design Podcast

AIGA, the professional association for design

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The official podcast feed of AIGA, the oldest and largest professional association for design in the United States 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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​​In this episode of the AIGA Design Podcast, host Lee-Sean Huang talks with Robert Brunner, Chief Designer at Beats by Dre and Founder and Partner at Ammunition. With over 40 years of experience, Brunner began his career at Apple when the company did not yet have a design team. He later became a partner at Pentagram before founding his own design …
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This clip is a preview of our upcoming AIGA Design Podcast with Robert Brunner, Chief Designer at Beats by Dre and Founder and ⁠Partner at Ammunition⁠. With over 40 years of experience, Brunner began his career at Apple when the company did not yet have a design team. He later became a partner at Pentagram before founding his own design studio. The…
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In this episode Steven Parker talks to a Taiwan success story, Gary Kao. As a pioneer of the early tech trading companies Gary founded his own company before listing and selling out on, of all places, the South African stock exchange. Gary talks about finding your niche, never giving up, asking for help, and just never being afraid to network.…
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In this episode of the AIGA Design Podcast, host Lee-Sean Huang interviews Jenn Stucker, Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design at Bowling Green State University. They discuss the importance of community engagement in design, the expanding definition of design as a profession, the role of design communities like AIGA in career development …
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Full episode coming August 12, 2024 Jenn Stucker, Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design at Bowling Green State University: "As a person that chairs my program, I often have to meet with prospective students and their parents. And I talk about those common notions, right? It's like, 'okay, so where did your interest come from?' And I'm sur…
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In this month\'s Leadership Matters we talk to Meg Lin, CEO of the Taiwan Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Partnership as well as a Deputy Director at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. She talks about Net Zero, Bringing your Energy to work, Challenging yourself with things that you are not very good at and how being underestimated can be very motiva…
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In this episode of the AIGA Design Podcast, host Lee-Sean Huang explores the process of aviation branding with guest Edmond Huot. Their conversation also focuses on how to build and maintain relationships with various client and community stakeholders, including local and Indigenous peoples served by airlines and airports. Edmond Huot is the Chief …
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In this special episode of the AIGA Design Podcast, Lee-Sean Huang, Senior Director of Learning & Programs, takes listeners behind the scenes of the planning process for the 2024 Design Conference (Online, October 10-12). How do we select speakers for the conference? Why are we doing an online conference this year, and what are the challenges and o…
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Full episode coming July 15, 2024 Edmond Huot: "What's the dream? what are people aspiring to? As a creative and someone whose job it is to provide that path for our clients to understand and celebrate what that means to be human when you travel, whether it's this perception of glamour, whether it's an appreciation of traveling great distances to s…
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This episode features John Glasgow and Jonathan Kenyon, co-founders of Vault49, which has partnered with the best of the best, from the most recognizable global brands to celebrities and start-ups. Named Global Design Agency of Record for two of Diageo’s biggest brands, Baileys and Guinness, Vault49 also counts Netflix, Gatorade, and Doritos as cur…
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What does an evolving design studio look like and how do you make money while maintaining your passion? In this episode, AIGA Member Matthew McIver, a creative entrepreneur and owner of Commence Studio, and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA, unravel the intricacies of pivoting business models and pricing strategies. J…
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In this preview clip, Matthew McIver and Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's senior director of learning and programs, discuss the important role of financial margins and padding in business. The AIGA Design Podcast will be going on a brief mid-season spring hiatus and return with our full episode with Matthew on May 20, 2024. 💼 Matthew McIver is a creative ent…
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In this month\'s episode of Leadership Matters Steven Parker talks to with Niven Huang ¡V Head of Sustanaibility for KPMG. Dr Huang has been involved in Sustainabilty issues for over 25 years and has seen the industry grow from peripheral to now part of the mainstream conversation. He has worked with multinationals He has always believed in preserv…
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How do you package your unique career journey? In this episode, Sarah Doody, founder of Career Strategy Lab™, and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA, delve into the intricacies of crafting a career roadmap to navigate your professional journey. Join us as we explore the importance of setting short and long-term goals, …
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On the next episode of the AIGA Design Podcast, guest Sarah Doody discusses applying product design principles to your career, crafting a career roadmap, and more. Full episode release: March 18, 2024. 🤝 Sarah Doody is the founder of Career Strategy Lab, a program that helps UX and product professionals at all career stages navigate their job searc…
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Mike Weinberg is a sales guru. Four times New York Times and Amazon Best Selling Author who has trained araound the world. In this month\'s interview he talks to Steven Parker about Sales, Leadership, and how to transition from one to the other. And he shares his simple three step process to being a better Sales person and being a better Sales Mana…
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Has design research hit a plateau? In this episode, Danny Spitzberg and Humphrey Obuobi, two design researchers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA delve into the challenges and explore the gap between personal and professional learning in design research. Topics include: the value of …
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Designing success outside the lines – AIGA's 2024 journey begins at the margins. Welcome to the first episode of the 2024 season of the AIGA Design Podcast! Join Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA, as he explores the theme "MARGINS" and sets the stage for an exciting year of AIGA Design programming. 🎟️ Register for the…
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This month Steven Parker talks with Peter Crowhurst. Pete has lead global and local organizations through military coups, Covid lockdowns, national incidents, and always been able to make the best of it. He has worked and lived in Taiwan, Mainland China, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Singapore and across a wide range of industries from hospitality, to insura…
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In this episode Colton Schweitzer, co-founder of Kickass UX and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA talk about: How Banksy inspired Colton to get into graphic design How creating a board game introduced Colton to UX and landed him a job The differences between a design bootcamp and a college degree program How to identi…
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In this month\'s Leadership Matters Steven Parker talks to Peter Kurz - "Mr. Taiwan" - a long time foreign resident of Taiwan with over 40 years in banking and finance and a genuine media personality in his own right. Peter shares his insights on working in Taiwan, when to invest in the stock market, Social Media and the necessity to hunt out accur…
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Maigen Thomas is a senior UX designer, career switcher, and "Maven of Mentoring" for fellow UI/UX bootcamp graduates. In this episode, Maigen and Lee-Sean discuss leveraging life experiences into design, what to do in the first 30 days of a new job to set yourself up for success, gamification, and more! Maigen's Real World Experience Workshop: http…
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What is your designer archetype? Are you a generalist, strategist, researcher, architect, artist, author, or design operations person? How does knowing your archetype help you progress in your career? We discuss these archetypes and more in the full episode of the AIGA Design Podcast with Steven Steiner: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aiga…
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This month Steven Parker talks to Naina Batra - the CEO of AVPN, a regional social investment network that aims to increase the flow of financial, human and intellectual capital for impact. Naina talks about creativity, growing communities and just in general how to make the world a better place! Under her direction, AVPN has grown from focusing on…
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What is your designer archetype? Are you a generalist, strategist, researcher, architect, artist, author, or design operations person? How does knowing your archetype help you progress in your career? We discuss these archetypes and more in this episode of the AIGA Design Podcast with our guest Steven Steiner. Steven Steiner is a Career Coach for D…
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In this month\'s Leadership Matters Steven Parker talks with David Kelly - the Executive Director of the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore. Born in Manchester but having lived in Asia and with degrees from both UK and Singaporean Universities - David is a true global citizen and has a unique perspective on international management. Listen to Da…
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FEED SWAP: Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's director of design content and learning, recently appeared on Steven Wakabayashi's Yellow Glitter Podcast to talk about collective change, community-centered design, his midlife career crisis, and more. Listen/subscribe to the Yellow Glitter Podcast: https://yellowglitterpodcast.com/podcast/42-collective-change-and…
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TA Wu is the Managing Director of Springpool Glass \- Taiwan\'s largest glass recycling company and dedicated to developing sustainable and Circular Economy. Building on the foundation his Father built he has taken Springpool Glass from a recycling company to a major international luxury brand focused on circular materials. He is a graduate of Camb…
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We are back for a special summer special edition of the podcast. We are catching up with Ritesh Gupta, founder of Useful School, which offers 12-week online pay-what-you-can classes in product design, branding, decolonization, and financial wellness aimed at beginner and advanced creatives of color. Applications to the Useful School fall cohort are…
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In this episode of Leadership Matters Steven Parker talks with Steven Lynch. Steven Lynch ran the British Chamber of Commerce in China as it went through a period of enormous change; combining several chapters under one governing body. Starting as a very young manager he successfully faced the challenge of how to build authority, team cohesion, and…
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Fredrik Boye - Executive Director of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Taipei In this episode Steve Parker talks to Fredrik Boye ─ the outgoing head of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Taipei. Fredrik was a trailing spouse in Taiwan though a successful business person in his own right and had to build his own networks from the ground up eventual…
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In this episode, we present a clip of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, speaking at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference in Washington DC. This footage has not been seen or heard publicly for over 20 years. Groening shares a story he had never told before, explains why he values design conferences, gives advice to fellow illustrators,…
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