Design in the Moment

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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