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Bennie F. Johnson: How Design Makes Every Part of an Organization Better
Matt McCue 6/29/21 Matt McCue 6/29/21

Bennie F. Johnson: How Design Makes Every Part of an Organization Better

Featuring the characteristics of a successful design-led business, and which organizations we might emulate (and why). 

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Elizabeth Bawol: How Strategic Creative Advances the Mission of Planned Parenthood
Matt McCue 6/3/21 Matt McCue 6/3/21

Elizabeth Bawol: How Strategic Creative Advances the Mission of Planned Parenthood

Planned Parethood’s Senior Creative Director discusses how her 12-person team tells authentic stories and what makes for effective social activism.

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Setting the Standards: How Two Designers Build Around their Passions and Problems
Matt McCue 5/14/21 Matt McCue 5/14/21

Setting the Standards: How Two Designers Build Around their Passions and Problems

Hamish Smyth and Jesse Reed are representative of the next wave of entrepreneurial designers who have day jobs—plural—thanks to starting new companies around their passions and problems.

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Jaime Lopez: Designing to the Edge in Cancer Care
Matt McCue 5/10/21 Matt McCue 5/10/21

Jaime Lopez: Designing to the Edge in Cancer Care

Designing for cancer care is personal, heartbreaking, and full of opportunity. Lopez shares why the healthcare industry is ripe for cutting-edge design.

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Tobin Heath: Creativity is Within All of Us
Matt McCue 4/30/21 Matt McCue 4/30/21

Tobin Heath: Creativity is Within All of Us

For the two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA Women's World Cup team champion, living life to the fullest includes soccer—and painting.

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Design from the Ground Up: Sunny Moberg Turns Propane Tanks into BBQ Smokers
Matt McCue 4/29/21 Matt McCue 4/29/21

Design from the Ground Up: Sunny Moberg Turns Propane Tanks into BBQ Smokers

Sunny Moberg shares how he connected two seemingly disparate things (propane and fire), his exacting process where anything off by more than ⅛ inch must be redone, and why it feels so good to make something by hand.

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