Interview Archives - Design Work Life https://designworklife.com/category/interview/ Design inspiration & how-tos for your everyday work and life. Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:05:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://designworklife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-dwl-icon-32x32.png Interview Archives - Design Work Life https://designworklife.com/category/interview/ 32 32 Megan Jean Sovern: The Meaning of Maggie https://designworklife.com/megan-jean-sovern-the-meaning-of-maggie/ https://designworklife.com/megan-jean-sovern-the-meaning-of-maggie/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:00:25 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=77601 This morning I’m excited to introduce you to The Meaning of Maggie, Megan Jean’s Sovern‘s debut novel about eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield, a “girl just trying to survive adolescence armed with after school snacks and deep thoughts.” Megan recently worked with a team—including her equally creative husband, Ted Harbourt—to create a film trailer for the book (which […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/megan-jean-sovern-the-meaning-of-maggie/feed/ 1 Badass Lady Creatives: Interview with Illustrator Tuesday Bassen https://designworklife.com/interview-with-tuesday-bassen/ https://designworklife.com/interview-with-tuesday-bassen/#comments Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:00:17 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=73457 Personal projects are sure to appear on many a designer’s New Years Resolutions list—mine included! To ring in 2014, I talked with kickass illustrator Tuesday Bassen about her bevy of side projects: a yay-ladies zine, a small press, and a ceramics line. MR: What prompted you and Lindsay Eyth to start your zine, Miserable & […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/interview-with-tuesday-bassen/feed/ 2 Responsively Redesigning the New, New York Times https://designworklife.com/responsively-redesigning-the-new-new-york-times/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:15:45 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=73676 For their New Year’s resolution, The New York Times is launching a beyond ambitious redesign of their future web experience and their first since 2006. Offering a new experience, the requisite press release promises a “cleaner, more engaging user experience” that will define the future of the paper’s digital edition. On Twitter, Rhodri Marsden cut […]

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]]> Interview with Designer Darrin Higgins: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra https://designworklife.com/interview-darrin-higgins-west-eastern-divan-orchestra/ Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:00:38 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=72650 Designer Darrin Higgins, known for his work in spaces such as The Noun Project and Fast Company, shared with us his work on another fascinating organization: the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, an international youth orchestra based in Seville, Spain. The orchestra, consisting of musicians from countries in the Middle East — of Egyptian, Iranian, Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian […]

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]]> Recommended Resources: Two Minutes with TGD https://designworklife.com/recommended-resrouces-interviews-two-minutes-with-tgd/ Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:00:07 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=72517 The Great Discontent is one of my all-time favorite blogs. Each week they feature in-depth interviews with people from creative fields who are doing really inspiring work and living their dreams. More recently they’ve introduced Two Minutes with TDG, a series of brief interviews centered around three questions, and expanding on the themes explored on […]

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]]> Interview with Product Designer Jessica Harllee https://designworklife.com/interview-with-product-designer-jessica-harllee/ https://designworklife.com/interview-with-product-designer-jessica-harllee/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:00:25 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=71719 Badass Lady Creatives celebrates talented women working in the creative industries. This week, I chat with product designer Jessica Harllee about her work at Kickstarter, hackathons, and embroidered poo. MR: So, you’re currently designing for Kickstarter in New York, by way of Virginia. Can you tell me more about how you got to where you […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/interview-with-product-designer-jessica-harllee/feed/ 2 Introducing Garth! https://designworklife.com/introducing-garth/ https://designworklife.com/introducing-garth/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:00:23 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=71722 Garth Purkett is our new DWL intern! He is going to help me out with all kinds of things behind the scenes, but he will also be lending his voice to the blog. His posts will appear every Thursday and provide you with an image-heavy dose of weekly inspiration. Let’s welcome him! First, tell us […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/introducing-garth/feed/ 0 Introducing Melanie! https://designworklife.com/introducing-melanie/ https://designworklife.com/introducing-melanie/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:00:24 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=71723 This morning I’m incredibly excited to introduce our next contributor to all of you. Please welcome Melanie Richards, an awesome designer who works at one of my favorite studios of the moment—Fuzzco, whose work you’ve seen here many times—and also runs Badass Lady Creatives, a project I’ve been admiring and following since it began. Lucky for us, […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/introducing-melanie/feed/ 0 Introducing Jackson and Graham! https://designworklife.com/introducing-jackson-and-graham/ https://designworklife.com/introducing-jackson-and-graham/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:35:06 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=71725 For quite awhile, one of the ways I’ve been wanting to improve DWL’s content is to provide more information and inspiration focused on the digital space. So this morning I’m thrilled to introduce you to the creative team of Jackson Murphy and Graham MacInnes, partners at Vancouver-based agency Pound & Grain. Their posts will launch […]

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