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Why Design Matters features 100 images and includes interviews with: Grouped by category-Legends, Truth Tellers, Culture Makers, Trendsetters, and Visionaries-these eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening conversations-offer insights into new ways of being and living.Īccompanying each entry is a brief biography, a portrait photographed by Millman, and a pull quote written in Millman’s artistic hand. In this illustrated, curated anthology, Millman includes approximately 80 of her best interviews with visionaries from across diverse fields.
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In those conversations, she has not only explored what it means to design a creative life, but has, as Millman’s wife, Roxane Gay, assesses in her foreword, “created 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 professional.” Over the course of her popular podcast’s fifteen-year reign, Debbie Millman has interviewed more than 400 creative minds.
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She has demonstrated time, and again, why design matters.”-Roxane Gay, from the foreword “Debbie Millman has become a singular voice in the world of intimate, enlightening conversations. The author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast Design Matters showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields. “Debbie Millman has become a singular voice in the world of intimate, enlightening Foreword by Roxane Gay Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, Millman is also an author, educator, curator, and brand consultant. She will be in conversation with her wife, Roxane Gay, the bestselling author of Hunger, Bad Feminist, and Difficult Women, among others, and a contributing Opinion writer for the New York Times.Foreword by Roxane Gay The author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast Design Matters showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields. Why Design Matters reveals new ways of being and living. Grouped into categories-Legends, Truth Tellers, Culture Makers, Trendsetters, and Visionaries-the book reflects Millman’s singular talent for celebrating curiosity, self-expression, intelligence, and both inner and outer beauty. This illustrated, curated anthology groups dozens of Millman’s best interviews featuring the likes of Brené Brown, Ira Glass, Pete Souza, Aminatou Sow, Priya Parker, Alain de Botton, Tim Ferriss, and Esther Perel. In Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People, Millman showcases her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields. Over the past 15 years, Debbie Millman has interviewed hundreds of creative minds on her award-winning podcast, “ Design Matters,” to explore what it means to design a creative life, as well as one with meaning and purpose. All books will be pre-signed by the author. This program does not include a book signing. Please review our health and safety protocols here. At this in-person event (with a virtual attendance option), masks and proof of vaccination are required including a photo ID that matches the name on the vaccination card.