Journal 11

Debbie Millman the President of the design division at Sterling Brands, an international design consultancy. She has been there for fourteen years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Campbell’s, Colgate, Hershey and Hasbro. Debbie is President of the AIGA, the professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine and the chair of the new Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet. She is the author of two books: How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007), and The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008). Her new book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design, will be published by How Books in Fall 2009.

Design Matters is a program where Debbie Millman interviews Designers.

I liked listening to this program because it was very much like listening to a childhood story. I love listening to stories. It seemed like a reading from an autobiography. I liked hearing about Debbie reflect on her life and how it could have been if she would have become a journalist. This is a moment that I am sure to have in my life. I will think what if I would have become a painter or a fine artist rather than a Graphic Designer. "It may or may not be as tactile or visually stimulating." Millmann says this as she analyses the possibility of the end of print. People are still reading and writing though so the end of print is not true.

Stefan Bucher

I love the story before this interview about Playboy.