Podcasts about abstract design

In Episode #76, Ross is joined by Matthias Winckelmann, Co-Founder and one of the two Creative Directors of someform Studio.Before launching someform Studio, Matthias worked as Managing Partner and Director at the creative ensemble foam Studio and as Head of 3D at the internationally acclaimed design & branding studio ManvsMachine in London.Ross and Matthias discuss why the world's biggest companies are using abstract design to stand out, what this means for designers, and how we can avoid carrying current biases in the future.Find show notes and episode highlights at https://nwrk.co/omq-matthiasTo listen to previous episodes go to https://nwrk.co/omqIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and share this episode with your friends.

Alex Proba is a New York and Portland-based creative director of Studio Proba. She's a multidisciplinary designer, focused on brand design, art direction, product design, illustration and murals and you must have seen online her playful sculptural installation Tomorrow Land from Design Miami 2021. In our conversation, Alex shares with me her educational path, which spanned dentistry, architecture and product design. We discuss her career in creative industries, which included design roles at Kickstarter and Nike before she established Studio Proba in 2013. We also chat about making work that makes people happy, setting yourself 100-day projects and sometimes, putting your personal life plans first. Mentioned in the episode: Alex's website: https://www.studioproba.com/ To get new weekly On Design podcast episodes directly in your inbox, sign up to our newsletter at https://ondesignpodcast.com/newsletter. Podcast music: James Greenfield, production: Green Podcast Productions

MLOps community meetup #49! Last Wednesday we talked to Lak Lakshmanan, Data Analytics and AI Solutions, Google Cloud. // Abstract: Design patterns are formalized best practices to solve common problems when designing a software system. As machine learning moves from being a research discipline to a software one, it is useful to catalogue tried-and-proven methods to help engineers tackle frequently occurring problems that crop up during the ML process. In this talk, I will cover five patterns (Workflow Pipelines, Transform, Multimodal Input, Feature Store, Cascade) that are useful in the context of adding flexibility, resilience and reproducibility to ML in production. For data scientists and ML engineers, these patterns provide a way to apply hard-won knowledge from hundreds of ML experts to your own projects. Anyone designing infrastructure for machine learning will have to be able to provide easy ways for the data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to implement these, and other, design patterns. // Bio: Lak is the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud. His team builds software solutions for business problems using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning products. He founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab ML Immersion program and is the author of three O'Reilly books and several Coursera courses. Before Google, Lak was a Director of Data Science at Climate Corporation and a Research Scientist at NOAA. // Final thoughts Please feel free to drop some questions you may have beforehand into our slack channel (https://go.mlops.community/slack) Watch some old meetups on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG6qpjVnBTTT8wLGBygANOQ ----------- Connect With Us ✌️------------- Join our Slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Lak on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valliappalakshmanan/ Timestamps: [00:00] TWIML Con Debate announcement to be hosted by Demetrios on Friday [00:19] Should data scientists know about Kubernetes? Is it just one machine learning tool to rule them all? Or is it going to be the "best-in-class" tool? [00:35] Strong opinion of Lak about "Should data scientists know about Kubernetes?" [05:50] Lak's background into tech [08:07] Which ones you wrote in the book? Is the airport scenario yours? [09:25] Did you write ML Maturity Level from Google? [12:34] How do you know when to bring on perplexity for the sake of making things easier? [16:06] What are some of the best practices that you've seen being used in tooling? [20:09] How did you come up with writing the book? [20:59] How did we decide that these are the patterns that we need to put in the book? [24:14] Why did I get the "audacity" to think that this is something that is worth doing? [31:29] What would be in your mind some of the hierarchy of design patterns? [38:05] Are there patterns out there that are yet to be discovered? How do you balance the exploitable vs the explorable ml patterns? [42:08] ModelOps vs MLOps [43:08] Do you feel that a DevOps engineer is better suited to make the transition into becoming a Machine Learning engineer? [46:07] Fundamental Machine Design Patterns vs Software Development Design Patterns [49:23] When you're working with the companies at Google, did you give them a toolchain and a better infrastructure or was there more to it? Did they have to rethink their corporate culture because DevOps is often mistaken as just a pure toolchain?

The wait is over! We know you couldn't wait for our takes on the new Slack logo and boy we've delivered. We also talk about the state of criticism on the Internet.Sponsors ​​Duck Duck Go: Privacy, Simplified. They're hiring remote positions for Senior Visual Designers! Abstract: Design workflow management for product design teams using Sketch Show notes Slack's announcement Pentagram's article on their Slack rebrand The original Slack branding by Metalab Tweaked version of their new logo that highlights the hashtag better Louie Mantia's take "Who the fuck calls it an app button?" The new Slack logo doesn't spark joy Generic logos Slack logo leak Recommendations Kinto USA Site Europe Six and Sons Autosleep HostsKevin Clark (@vernalkick)Rafael Conde (@rafahari)

Rachel May's new book, An American Quilt, has an innocuous enough title, invoking an innocent American pastime. But sometimes ugly secrets can be hidden in the stitchwork—or even, as in the case of the quilt at the heart of May’s book, behind it. The paper-pieced quilt was stitched together from fabric basted onto hexagon-shaped paper templates. These scraps, which turned out to be letters and documents dating all the way back to 1798, tie together one family from the abolitionist North and one from the slave-owning South. This paper trail led May to stitch together the stories of the women behind the quilt, enslaved and free. In the process, she shows how dependent the “free” North was on the enslaved labor of its southern neighbor.Go beyond the episode:Rachel May’s An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and SlaveryFor a peek at the global history of the stuff quilts are made of, read an excerpt from Sven Beckert’s Empire of CottonPeruse the National Museum of American History’s extensive National Quilt CollectionThe National Park Service offers a brief visual history of quilting in America, with a special focus on quilting in the WestThe Library of Congress has oral recordings with Appalachian quiltmakers, who discuss the social history of quiltingThe Whitney Museum’s 1971 exhibition of “Abstract Design in American Quilts” ignited our contemporary quilting renaissance. To view these, and hundreds of others, you can peruse the online collection of the International Quilt Study Center and MuseumTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rachel May's new book, An American Quilt, has an innocuous enough title, invoking an innocent American pastime. But sometimes ugly secrets can be hidden in the stitchwork—or even, as in the case of the quilt at the heart of May’s book, behind it. The paper-pieced quilt was stitched together from fabric basted onto hexagon-shaped paper templates. These scraps, which turned out to be letters and documents dating all the way back to 1798, tie together one family from the abolitionist North and one from the slave-owning South. This paper trail led May to stitch together the stories of the women behind the quilt, enslaved and free. In the process, she shows how dependent the “free” North was on the enslaved labor of its southern neighbor.Go beyond the episode:Rachel May’s An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and SlaveryFor a peek at the global history of the stuff quilts are made of, read an excerpt from Sven Beckert’s Empire of CottonPeruse the National Museum of American History’s extensive National Quilt CollectionThe National Park Service offers a brief visual history of quilting in America, with a special focus on quilting in the WestThe Library of Congress has oral recordings with Appalachian quiltmakers, who discuss the social history of quiltingThe Whitney Museum’s 1971 exhibition of “Abstract Design in American Quilts” ignited our contemporary quilting renaissance. To view these, and hundreds of others, you can peruse the online collection of the International Quilt Study Center and MuseumTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guest today is on the more unconventional side. For starters, he wouldn’t necessarily choose to call himself a “leader”, so what better set-up for a secret leader?Mills, aka Matt Miller, is the co-founder of the fampany (read: family company) ustwo, a design studio occupying the ground floor of the Tea Building in Shoreditch, famous for hosting many of UK’s most creative brands.Mills started his career at design studio Animal, where his first and only ever boss demonstrated to him just how leadership can be: a friendship based on trust and shared values. After experiencing that, Mills and ustwo co-founder John Sinclair, aka Sinx, decided to replicate it to create a fizzing company culture of their own.Today we talk about doing things differently and putting values at the heart of an organization that really tries to keep its creativity in full flow, full-time employed. Mills and Sinx have zero intention to ever sell ustwo, and are on a mission to create the best working environment you can imagine.We chat about:The story of how ustwo was formedInternational expansionHow they created a global smash hit mobile gameMills’s love for mindful ultrarunningWhat's next for ustwoLinks:ustwoMonument ValleyWant to receive our podcast on a weekly basis? Subscribe to our newsletter!

Join Linda Fisler as she welcomes Jean Pederson to Art Chat. Jean talks about building imagery from an abstract design. Abstract design is a key component to making your painting grab the attention of your viewer. Jean walks us through her process and why abstraction is so important regardless of the genre you paint.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/LindaRiesenbergFisler)