Design in the Moment

Guest: Jason Bordui, consultant. Jason joins us today to talk about leading successful teams, branding and keeping creative types happy and productive. He shares insights from his 20 years of experience developing strategies and organizing companies. He has worked with many types of companies from health care,  to financial services, to non-profits. Jason’s expertise includes Service & Digital Innovation, New Venture Strategy & Planning, Operations Strategy, Business Process Design, Organizational Development, and Transformation Leadership. Listen as he tells us about his experiences along with the following:

Olympic Logo,  Robotic Copy, Problems with Design Thinking, Name Change for Charity, Structure for Creativity,

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Guest: Scott Maney, founder of Jones. Scott joins us on our first show back from our summer break. His background as a copywriter and Creative Director give him great perspective on today’s topics. We chat about out of the box thinking to get yourself a job, what different cultures call design, how Jones was created and the following:

Getting a Job Creatively, Auto Ad Builder, Objectified, Design for Real Life, Death to the Post-it, Bogusky Leaving,

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Guest: Andy Hobgood, The New Colony. Andy joins us today to talk about theatre and business. He is the founding Artistic Director of The New Colony and has also been a business consultant for the last 10 years. Andrew has helped create, direct or produce many plays, including: 58!, Love is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy, Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess, and Calls to Blood. His consulting work primarily focuses on bringing artistic sensibilities to corporate organizations and assisting artistic organizations in applying business principals to not-for-profit infrastructures. Artistically, he has spent the majority of his career developing, directing, and producing world-premiere theater in a collaborative environment. He shares his thoughts with us about how he sees his industry changing and also the following:

A Modern Theater, Adaptive Eyewear, Theater for the Disabled, Roxy using Social Media, Marina Abramovic,

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Guest: Ryan Noel, Music Contributor. Today we welcome our new regular contributor, Ryan. He’ll be joining us to share thoughts on new and rediscovered music. We also talk about business and the arts. We discuss how people relate to the past and then work to reinvent it; standing up for your vision even when others don’t, and more of the following:

Architect Paul Rudolph, Our Past as Designers, Stage Design, Polaroid’s Impossible Project, 48 Hour Magazine, The Creators Project,

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Guest: Diane Legge Kemp, DLK Civic Design. This week we are joined by Diane to discuss city planning, architecture and transportation. Diane was the first woman partner of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and in 1989,  she started her own company. DLK Civic Design is devoted to building healthy communities with infrastructure and transportation and has completed many projects for Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Currently, Diane and her firm are working on the North Red and Purple Lines’ Vision Study, the reconstruction of the I 90/94 Circle Interchange, and sustainable transit-oriented design guidelines for the Illinois Toll Highway Authority. She discusses her work and thoughts on the following:

The Nano Effect,  New Busses for India, Motobecane Motivo Electric Bike, Wishful Subway Maps, Mobil Museum, Bike Sharing,

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Guest: Steve Shirk, Shirk Music and Sound. Since we are talking about music so much this week, we thought we should get some input from the studio owner, Steve. We explore the mixing of technology and art; and how people interact with things to create that art. We also talk about some of the new music coming out, where the music industry is headed and the following:

Musical Nike’s, Mug Speakers, Apple Shutting Down Lala, The Hoof and the Heel, Rolling Stones, Black Keys, Joanna Newsom, Florence and the Machine, Joe Pug,

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In this week’s episode, our producer Liz Metz joins in on a chat about Facebook and the privacy issues they’re having. How are they using all the data they gain from users and how much control do people still have over their accounts?  We also talk about the agency Mekanism, what makes companies stand out,  and how agencies succeed. Listen to these musings along with the following:

The New Agency?, Facebook Privacy Chart, New Facebook “Liking” Feature,

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Guest: Carlos Segura, Founder Segura Inc. and T26. Carlos started his first company with the goal of blending as much “fine art” into “commercial art” as he could. He has continued with that thought as he explored more veins in the business. The fonts he has created are distributed throughout the world and his companies have won multiple awards. He also started the sites 5inch.com, cartype.com, biketype.com, mototype.com and trucktype.com for further expansion. He joins us today to discuss his thoughts on everything from stealing fonts to the following:

Japanese Font Design, Saving Magazines, Penguin Updated Book Covers, iPad Design, iPhone Font App, Font as Art,

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Guest: Al Gini, Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University. He joins us today to tread the tricky waters of ethics, job satisfaction and how to motivate employees. Al has a bit of experience discussing these sorts of topics. Not only is he a teacher of ethics, he is also the co-founder of Business Ethics Quarterly and the Resident Philosopher on NPR for twenty-three years. He has also written many books on these subjects. We discuss his thoughts on all this and on the following:

Working More for Less, The MBA Oath, Motivating Employees, Are Smaller Companies Better?, Ethics and Collaboration,

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Guest: Fred Schmidt, Principal of Perkins and Will. Fred has quite the back ground in interior design. He helped found The Environments Group, and later merged the firm with Perkins+Will, creating the nation’s second largest interior design practice. They now have 24 offices worldwide. Fred also has a background in Environment‐Behavior Research. We chat with him about what makes a space great, how to utilize space better and why we crave authenticity. He shares from his background and also weighs in on the following:

Volkswagon’s Fun Theory, Anatomy for Interior Designers Review, Pattern Language, American Office Design, Green Offices,  Grey NY’s New Office,

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