Podcasts about pentagram design

Visit our Substack for the transcript, links, and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/hamish-smyth Design systems have been on the minds of those of us in the software industry for more than a decade now and for good reason. To create large scale software with a consistent experience, standards are needed to guide contributors.  This is not a new problem, though. Before software designers created design systems, brand and print designers created design standards to guide creative collaboration. We had a chance to talk with Hamish Smyth, co-founder of the popular tool Standards, and we relished the opportunity to nerd out with him on this subject. We spoke with Hamish about what design standards are and how they differ from design systems, some examples of famous standards like Massimo Vignellli's NYC Subway map and NASAs Standards Manual, and also about what Hamish learned about getting corporate buy-in from working with famed designer Michael Beirut from Pentagram. Bio Hamish Smyth is the co-founder of Standards and partner at Order. Prior to co-founding Order, Hamish worked as an associate partner the New York office of Pentagram Design under partner Michael Bierut. In 2014 he co-founded Standards Manual, an independent publishing imprint focusing on the preservation of graphic design history. *** Subscribe to DB+ to get episodes a week early and ad-free. Plus, every month, you're invited to exclusive AMAs (Ask Me Anything) with big names in design and tech, from companies like Nike, Netflix, and the New York Times who will answer your questions directly. Early bird subscribers get 50% off for the first three months. Visit designbetter.plus to learn more and subscribe. *** Visiting the links below is one of the best ways to support our show: Methodical Coffee: Roasted, blended, brewed, served and perfected by verified coffee nerds

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/robert-brunner-where-art-and-commerce Our guest today, Robert Brunner, once joked that his tombstone will say: “Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.” But there's much more to Robert than that. He did indeed build out the industrial design team at Apple in the 90's, but he's also been a partner at Pentagram Design, and was the chief designer of Beats by Dr. Dre, a brand that sold to Apple for $3 billion dollars. We talk with Robert about the arc of his career, what it takes to run a successful design consulting business, and why great products are more about ideas than objects. Before we get to the episode, we've got something new to share. We just released the first issue of our monthly newsletter. It includes a guest post from April Luelling, former Senior Product Design Recruiter and Program Manager at Meta, who shares tips on working with recruiters as well as current job openings in the design world. We also share highlights from some of our recent interviews, and links to interesting tools and summer reads.  You can subscribe for free to the newsletter, and also get the podcast a week early, at designbetterpodcast.com. Thanks for subscribing, and for listening. Bio Robert Brunner is an industrial design leader with broad experience in consumer electronics, personal computers, communications, and appliance industries. He was the co-founder of Lunar Design and former Director of Industrial Design at Apple Computer. Robert was also a Partner at Pentagram Design in San Francisco, after which he formed Ammunition LLC, a product design and brand development group in San Francisco, CA. He co-authored the book Do you matter? How great design will make people love your company, published by Financial Times Press. This episode is brought to you by: Fable: Build inclusive products: https://makeitfable.com/designbetter/ Methodical Coffee: Roasted, blended, brewed, served and perfected by verified coffee nerds: https://methodicalcoffee.com/ (use code "designbetter" for 10% off of your order). Cruise: Cruise is a team of researchers and designers creating a self-driving transportation service for the people and cities we love. Visit design.getcruise.com to learn more about how you can help design the future of transportation! Freehand by InVision: The intelligent whiteboard that's half the price of Miro and Mural: https://freehandapp.com/ Help us make the show even better by taking a short survey: www.dbtr.co/survey If you're interested in sponsoring the show, please contact us at: sponsors@thecuriositydepartment.com If you'd like to submit a guest idea, please contact us at: contact@thecuriositydepartment.com Links Rethinking Everyday Things - Robert Brunner keynote How Design Drives The World's Best Companies w/ Robert Brunner | Chase Jarvis LIVE Do You Matter? Robert Brunner, Stewart Emery, Russ Hall

Everyone uses data, but that doesn't mean it has to stay in a static or numeric form permanently. Giorgia Lupi has been transforming data into meaningful visual versions for years. She recalls being highly analytical and creative even back when she was a child organizing items in her grandmother's tailor shop. Since then, she's co-founded Accurat, a data visualization design studio, presented a Ted talk, become a Partner at Pentagram, and more.In this episode of Reverse Engineered, Jon Penland welcomes Giorgia Lupi of Pentagram to discuss information design, her humble beginnings with a weekly newspaper column creating visual data, and how that led into her career today helping brands showcase data. As an information designer, Giorgia has a passion for finding and looking at data through the lens of how it can be better interpreted and explained to others. Giorgia uses that ability to take datasets, big or small, and transform them into stories that stakeholders care about. While data visualization has picked up a lot of steam in recent years, Giorgia's on a mission to humanize the collection and interpretation of data to be more helpful overall.Check more episodes at https://kinsta.com/podcast/

Hi Everyone This is our weekly digest episode where we share some of what we liked, discovered and was recommended to us.We start with: LAST WEEKS EPISODELast weeks guest was Emily Oberman Partner at Pentagram Design. In this engaging 2 parter we cover her upbringing; being immersed in art, discovery and joy, and how humor and singing was never far; the work ethic her parents instilled; and being introduced her to Monty Python,The Marx Brothers and MAD Magazine at an early age.She explains why the idea of being a beautiful weirdo has remained with her throughout her career as she seeks out oddness in everyone she meetsWe discuss her early design influences, her approach to design and the role of story and ideas her work. We explore how Emily met and formed a 17 year partnership, with Bonnie Siegler, in the New York design firm Number17 before we dive deep into her 20 seasons of driving the identity of Saturday Night Live. We also discuss her leadership experience at Pentagram and the challenges of combining that with motherhood. PODCAST WE LOVED CODE SWITCH - NPRRegardless of where you live, race and identity are part of the often cultural charged narrative. So if you ever find yourself in a conversation about race and identity where you just get...stuck, Code Switch can help.Created by journalists of color, and as they say themselves - this isn't just the work they do, it's the lives they lead.' It's a great listen, its funny and it will certainly make you reflect on some of your own cultural assumptions.WHAT WE DISCOVERED CONTRACT FOR THE WEBIn the 90's I think many of us expected The internet herald some from of global online utopia. Fast forward 25 years, flooded with fake news, election meddling, online bullying and a slew of other ills The Internet descended into a nightmarish mess. Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, wants to reverse the slide.On November 25, Berners-Lee unveiled the Contract for the Web, an action plan he crafted with the help of over 80 other experts. It aims to boost privacy protections online, reduce digital incivility and discourage government crackdowns on the Web while ensuring that everyone on the planet gets access to the internet. There might well be hope for the future of The Internet. RECOMMENDED TO USARCADIA EARTH We recently took the recommendation of previous guest Alessandro Armillotta and visited Arcadia Earth her in Manhattan. It's an immersive augmented reality driven journey through Planet Earth that educates us on the impact of our behavior on the climate. On this large scale multi-sensorial journey will guide you through underwater worlds, fantasy lands, and inspirational art installations. powered by augmented reality, virtual reality, projection mapping, and interactive environments. As we explored, we learned how small lifestyle changes can have a massive impact on the future of our planet. MULLING ON THIS APOCALYPSE WHEN?It's easy to fall into the trap of helplessness and indifference in the face of the number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben

Throwback Thursday: Paula Scher, Partner at Pentagram Designwww.Linktr.ee/MeettheCreativesNYPresented by www.KEH.com

“We have literally been depicting animals since we could make artwork, since we could paint on the walls of caves. It’s pretty much across every culture and civilization in history, animals have been part of artwork that’s been created. I just found that so fascinating and when I was thinking about how to put what I was doing down on paper. That felt like the cornerstone idea of why I am doing this and why these animal portraits can be important and part of this, a part of humanities portrayal of animals in artwork.” Photographer Randal Ford (https://www.randalford.com/), who specializes in conceptual portraiture and advertising work, just released a gorgeous book of animal portraits. The Animal Kingdom is a project that he has been creating on along side his regular work for almost 10 years. It all started when DJ Stout of Pentagram Design (https://www.pentagram.com/about/dj-stout) approached Randal to make portraits of Dairy cows. It was a novel and fresh idea and soon he found himself getting more animal related advertising work. When he self initiated his own photoshoot of a lion, tiger, and bear, it tipped over into a personal project that would take him to many locations and studios to capture a 150 different mammals and birds. He describes his love of photography as a kind of obsession that started in high school and grew into college even though he ended up studying business. By not specifically pursuing an art or photography degree, he was forced to find his own way and solely create a vision of what he wanted his career and work to look like. He used his resourcefulness and determination to learn what he could from various sources and worked hard to build his business and develop his skills by creating a lot of images and by experimenting. After moving to Austin he worked as an assistant and second shooter but soon found himself wanting to go out on his own. Since that time he has built a successful career with advertising portrait work and directing and is now venturing into the fine art world with his arresting studio images of animals. His work has entered the cannon of depictions of animals that humans have been creating since the days of cave paintings. Just as he has perfected his skill in portraying people he now has proven his ability to capture an animals personality, beauty, and soul just as well. The viewer can connect with these subjects on a deeper level as they bring their own emotions and memories to the unspoken conversation we have with art as a mirror of ourselves. Randal is a consummate professional and is obviously a very skilled image maker, aritst, and business person. I really enjoyed this conversation and am excited to share it and help spread the word about his new book. It’s quite an accomplishment and is worthy of the praise it has received. We talk about the book but also the balance between being and artist and running a business and he shares some bullet points and recommendations for aspiring artists towards the end. Have a listen to the interview, share some feedback, and be sure to check out his work at randalford.com (https://www.randalford.com/). Some of the subjects we discuss: Photography origins Studying business Choosing a career focus Grandfather’s lessons Jack Hollingsworth Self initiated work Frames per animal Going out on his own Being professional Learning to shoot portraits Photographing animals Working with people Relinquishing control New respect for animals Animal portrait specifics Dairy cow beginnings Lion, Tiger, and Bear Using clients images 40,000yrs of animal art Beyond exotic animals Animal connections Powerful moments Primal and present Handlers and owners Cat Haven in Cali Producers & assistants Retoucher/background Davis Gallery show Advertising and Art Advice for artists Animal stories/names Creative collaboration Directing big shoots Bullet points elaboration Business books Family/final question Behind the scenes on some of the animal photo shoots. Randal's new book The Animal Kingdom: A Collection of Portraits https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/4/41335247-836c-4f4a-8a8b-aeca55f3227a/f1dQbnE1.png (http://a.co/d/4wexbEk) Released by renowned publisher Rizzoli New York. Available on Amazon (http://a.co/d/4wexbEk). Proceeds for the sales of the book benefit Project Survival's Cat Haven (https://cathaven.com/). Upcomming events PDNB Gallery Exhibition (http://pdnbgallery.com/SITE/calendar.html) + Signing in Dallas 154 Glass St #104, Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday, November 15, 2018 5:00 PM 8:30 PM Come see over 25 large format pieces of Randal Ford’s work at one of Dallas’s most respected photography galleries, PDNB. We will have bites, beer, wine, and spirits from Deep Eddy. Randal Ford will also be doing a signing early in the evening. Open to the public. Davis Gallery Exhibition (http://davisgalleryaustin.com/exhibitions.html) + Signing 837 W. 12th Street, Austin, TX 78701 Thursday, December 6, 2018 5:30 PM 8:30 PM Come see over 25 large format pieces of Randal Ford’s work at The Davis Gallery in Austin, TX. Randal Ford will also be doing a signing early in the evening.We will have apps and drinks as well! Open to the public. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian (http://stankillian.com/main/) Support this podcast. (http://www.austinarttalk.com/supportpodcast)

Noemie Le Coz, Freelance Art Director/Designer at Google Creative Lab Noemie Le Coz is an Australian, independent graphic designer, illustrator and art director, living and working in New York City. While very diverse, her aesthetic approach often merges minimalism with a distinct sense of play. Strategically, her work aims to elevate brand offerings by pinpointing audience appeal and distilling core messaging down to its clearest and freshest visual form. Previously at Pentagram Design, RoAndCo Studio, Hugo & Marie, Partners & Spade and Apple. Currently at Google Creative Lab.

Filler Live details: https://www.facebook.com/events/695226823945930 -- Charlie Smith is a seasoned designer who now owns and operates her own design studio, appropriately titled, Charlie Smith Design. If you live in the UK and have ever walked down a busy city road, there's no doubt that you have seen some of Charlie's studio's work. With clients ranging from Byron Hamburgers, to Gail's Artisan Bakery, to John Lewis and the Victoria & Albert Museum, Charlie and her team have certainly made their mark on London's design industry. In this episode we talked to Charlie about her beginning at Pentagram Design, her favourite fonts, why having personal relationships with all clients is important, and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode, and as always please do get in touch with your thoughts in the comments below on SoundCloud, or on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! Happy Sunday! Matt and Harry x -- Find Charlie: www.twitter.com/charlie_design www.charliesmithdesign.com -- We want your suggestions for guests to have on in Season Two! Tweet us your favourite creatives - filmmakers, photographers, designers, entrepreneurs... anything really! - to @fillerpodcast. -- Follow Filler on Soundcloud: @fillerpodcast Subscribe to Filler on iTunes here: www.apple.co/1cUvFxU Support Filler on Patreon: www.patreon.com/filler Buy Filler stickers: www.filler.bigcartel.com Subcribe to our Newsletter: www.bit.ly/1NbJaUY -- Find Filler: www.twitter.com/fillerpodcast www.instagram.com/fillerpodcast www.facebook.com/fillerpodcast Find Harry: www.twitter.com/harryhitchens www.instagram.com/harry_hitchens Find Matt: www.twitter.com/mattshre www.instagram.com/mattshr Social media photography by George Muncey - www.georgemuncey.com Theme music by Scott Quinn - www.soundcloud.com/scott_quinn

Kit Hinrichs Pentagram partner, expert in corporate communications, and avid collector. url: http://www.pentagram.com/ Kit Hinrichs has been a partner of Pentagram Design since 1986 when his West Coast branch of the bicoastal association Jonson, Pedersen, Hinrichs & Shakery became Pentagram’s San Francisco office. His work, such as the 22 annual reports he has designed for the paper company Potlatch and his design of @Issue: The Journal of Business and Design (that he co-founded) is characterized by its narrative quality and an encyclopedic set of references. His instincts as a visual storyteller and a collector inform his work and his 3,000-piece-strong collection of American flags and American flag memorabilia has formed the basis of several exhibitions and two books. This podcast is his April 20, 2006, lecture for the 30th Annual Visual Communications Exhibition.