Debbie Millman
Host, Interviewer, Designer, Mentor
About
Designer, author and educator who hosts the Design Matters podcast. She also leads PRINT's editorial direction and teaches branding at SVA.
SourceIn their own words
Piera Gelardi reflects on how embracing playfulness, curiosity, and creative experimentation transformed her life—from co-founding Refinery29 to overcoming burnout.
Talking with hundreds of extraordinary artists, designers, writers, and thinkers has completely expanded my worldview. It’s given me more courage to take risks.
The mission remains the same: to celebrate creativity in all its messy, beautiful forms – and to honour the people brave enough to live and share their creative lives.
And remember, we can talk about making a difference, we can make a difference, or we can do both.
Articles & interviews
- Kim Hastreiter Reflects on Paper, New York Culture, and Art
In this Design Matters podcast interview, Paper magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter reflects on her role in documenting downtown New York's art, fashion, music, and nightlife scenes. She discusses Paper's scrappy newsprint origins, its internet-breaking cover, and her new memoir, Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos, while arguing for artists to document culture.
- Johanna Augustin on Family, Teamwork, and Creative Fulfillment
In this What Matters Q&A, Pond Design CEO Johanna Augustin discusses family life, creative collaboration, regret, resilience and personal fulfillment. Augustin describes Pond Design's team-based working culture and reflects on how her background in economics, languages and childhood dress-up shaped her perspective on branding and packaging.
- Gloria Steinem on Feminism, Activism, and a Legendary Career
This Best of Design Matters podcast interview features activist, journalist, author, and magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem in conversation with Debbie Millman. Steinem discusses her family background and early life in Toledo, including the influence of her suffragist grandmother, alongside a wider introduction to her six-decade impact on feminism, equal rights, and American cultural life.