Design Notes Podcast

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Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Liam Spradlin. Each episode, Liam speaks with people from unique creative fields to discover what inspires and unites us in our work.

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🆕 Design Can’t Rely on Logic

In this episode, I reconnect with my former instructor, type designer and design coach Troy Leinster. Troy shares his journey from graphic design to type design, and explains why learning to make letters makes you a better designer.

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True is Better Than New

Designer, educator, and author David Reinfurt returns to the show to discuss his latest book, A *Co-* Program for Graphic Design.

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Facing Our Interfaces

Liam talks with the founder of Material Design and Design VP Matías Duarte, whose work on the system has pushed design forward at Google and across devices everywhere.

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Coding (and Decoding) Social Spaces

Liam speaks with Judith Donath, the founder of MIT’s Sociable Media Lab, inventor of e-cards, and author of “The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online.”