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This is Design School

Jp Avila & Chad P. Hall

52 episodes

6 months ago

“This Is Design School” is a podcast for the growing designer; those interested in design, starting a career in design, or needing a reminder of why they went into design.

Jp Avila is the Chair of the Art & Design Department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. Outside of teaching, Jp is charged with imagining and bringing to life curriculums which will prepare the designers and artists to shape the future of tomorrow. He earned his MFA in Visual Communication from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BA from Valparaiso University.

Chad P. Hall is a Design Director at Artefact in Seattle and a Part-time Lecturer at the University of Washington. He earned his M.Design from the University of Washington and holds a BAC in Communication from Pacific Lutheran University (where he met Jp).

Year 04, 05, 06 music composed by Michael Clark (https://www.musiclabtacoma.com/)

Year 02/03 Intro/Closing music: “Electronic : Nostalgic” by Paul Tyan (https://soundcloud.com/paultyan/electronic-nostalgic)

Year 01 Intro/Closing music: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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“This Is Design School” is a podcast for the growing designer; those interested in design, starting a career in design, or needing a reminder of why they went into design.

Jp Avila is the Chair of the Art & Design Department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. Outside of teaching, Jp is charged with imagining and bringing to life curriculums which will prepare the designers and artists to shape the future of tomorrow. He earned his MFA in Visual Communication from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BA from Valparaiso University.

Chad P. Hall is a Design Director at Artefact in Seattle and a Part-time Lecturer at the University of Washington. He earned his M.Design from the University of Washington and holds a BAC in Communication from Pacific Lutheran University (where he met Jp).

Year 04, 05, 06 music composed by Michael Clark (https://www.musiclabtacoma.com/)

Year 02/03 Intro/Closing music: “Electronic : Nostalgic” by Paul Tyan (https://soundcloud.com/paultyan/electronic-nostalgic)

Year 01 Intro/Closing music: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Episodes (20/52)

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Frank Chimero on Putting in the Reps

On this episode, we talk with Frank Chimero, Creative Director at Fictive Kin, and author of the book ‘The Shape of Design’. Frank talks about how he found design by using it as a foothold to have a deeper relationship with the things he really enjoyed, how designers have the opportunity to teach a commitment and expectation of craft and quality to fellow disciplines, about the value in experience outside of efficiency, and how work and experiences are cyclical in nature.

3 years ago

57 minutes 49 seconds

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Mitzi Okou on Looking for the Black Designers

On this episode, we talk with Mitzi Okou, a Senior Interaction Designer at Spotify and Founder of 'Where are the Black Designers.' Mitzi talks about her journey from studying classical music to UX Design, about how transparency begets a more forgiving culture, and her work in pushing the needle for diversity and representation so we truly don’t have to ask, “Where are the Black designers?” anymore.

3 years ago

46 minutes 8 seconds

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Catherine Lim and Jennifer Cheng on Design as a Method for Engagement

On this episode, we talk with Catherine Lim and Jennifer Cheng. Catherine is a UX Researcher at 98point6, and Jennifer is a UX Lead Product Designer at IQVIA. Catherine and Jenn each talk about their journey to design, their shared critical lens on the design discipline, and their resistance to the pipeline of design school to the mainstream commercial industry. They also discuss how this critical lens, along with a funding opportunity and hearing an interview by an undocumented immigration activist, led to the motivation to create Archivo: A self documentation toolkit. Archivo, designed in partnership with Maru and local community partners, was a project which provided a guide for undocumented people to collect and organize paperwork to prove their continued presence in the U.S.

3 years ago

53 minutes 55 seconds

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Leisha Muraki on the Currency of Connection

On this episode, we talk with Leisha Muraki, a Director of Brand Strategy at RORA, and a Lead in Brand Experience at MDMD. Leisha talks about how graduating in the middle of a financial recession forced her to take risks and work abroad in search of job security; how her experience building a career and practice in Venture Design shifted the judgement of design from aesthetics to strategy; and how the most important currency in the world is not capital but connection, including the connection with one’s self.

3 years ago

46 minutes 58 seconds

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Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo on the Politics of Helping

On this episode, we talk with Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Dean of the School of Design Strategies, Associate Dean at Parsons School of Design, and the Conference Co-Chair of the Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) Conference. Cynthia talks of being an artist who teaches design, and finding her way to the discipline through a passion of Art, a background in Electrical Engineering, and the worldview of growing up as a third culture kid. Cynthia discusses the practice and considerations of Integrated Design, including politicizing acts of helping, removing assumptions that you have what it takes to make someone else’s life better, and the importance of how we each represent history when walking into any given situation.

3 years ago

53 minutes 55 seconds

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Debbie Millman on Hope

On this episode, we talk with Debbie Millman, a designer, author, illustrator, educator, and brand consultant who is currently the Chair and co-founder of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, the Editorial & Creative Director of Print Magazine, and the Founder and Host of the award-winning podcast Design Matters. In our conversation, Debbie talks about her initial spark in design, working through and understanding cycles of fear and insecurity that led to life changing decisions in her career, planning for the long tail, and persevering through trauma in hope for a better life.

3 years ago

47 minutes 27 seconds

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In Memoriam: August de los Reyes on Designing the New American Dream

On this final episode of Season 05, we talk with August de los Reyes, Chief Design Officer at Varo Money Inc., in San Francisco, California. De los Reyes’ career transcends decades of technological shifts and advancements, and includes work with Microsoft, Google, Pinterest, and Philips. In our discussion, August reflects on his career to date, categorizing it into three decades: the how, the why, and the legacy. He speaks about the future and importance of Inclusive Design, the legacy we might leave behind for future generations of designers to build upon, and living a life of no regrets.

4 years ago

49 minutes 15 seconds

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August de los Reyes on Designing the New American Dream

On this final episode of Season 05, we talk with August de los Reyes, Chief Design Officer at Varo Money Inc., in San Francisco, California. De los Reyes’ career transcends decades of technological shifts and advancements, and includes work with Microsoft, Google, Pinterest, and Philips. In our discussion, August reflects on his career to date, categorizing it into three decades: the how, the why, and the legacy. He speaks about the future and importance of Inclusive Design, the legacy we might leave behind for future generations of designers to build upon, and living a life of no regrets.

4 years ago

47 minutes 27 seconds

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Annu Yadav on Design as an Act of Service

On this episode, we talk with Annu Yadav, Head of Design at Aurora Solar in San Francisco, California. Annu is a multidisciplinary practitioner across fine art, design, fashion technology, and business. Yadav discusses how her approach to design brings diverse and unique voices to a team to shape new ideas, how gaining knowledge helps shed fear, and gives us a reminder of how design is inherently an act of service.

4 years ago

41 minutes 2 seconds

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Scott Tong on Design Entrepreneurialism

On this episode, we talk with Scott Tong, a startup advisor in San Francisco, California. Through his career working at RMB Vivid, IDEO, Pinterest, and co-founding IFTTT, Tong has developed the unique perspective of designer as entrepreneur. In our conversation, Scott talks about how his passion for drawing led him to finding design, how learning design thinking helped prepare him to co-found a company, and the value of living in ambiguity.

4 years ago

36 minutes 33 seconds

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Diane Lee on Archiving Data

On this episode, we talk with Diane Lee, an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University in California. Lee is a multi-disciplinary designer who explores work in print, video, writing, sound, code, and physical space. Lee talks about her research in personal archives, the temporality of digital mediums, how the loss of personal data can be an act of identity formation, and how she encourages her students to scratch the itch of curiosity.

4 years ago

36 minutes 33 seconds

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Macbeth Watson on Design Endurance

On this episode, we talk with MacBeth Watson, Vice President of Design & Research at Strava in San Francisco, California. MacBeth’s career spans companies such as Microsoft, Pinterest, Starbucks, and Strava. Watson talks about how her endurance and achievements as an accomplished athlete have helped focus her career goals, the importance of connections in making career changes, and her unique approach to design leadership—focusing on the best approach to take on a project, finding the right people to bring new perspectives, and being confident in your genuine self.

4 years ago

36 minutes 44 seconds

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Minnie Bredouw on Design for Social Impact

On this episode, we talk with Minnie Bredouw, Executive Director and co-founder of The Purpose Project. Through her experiences at Frog, IDEO, and IDEO.org, teaching at various institutions, Bredouw has focused her career on developing a practice of design for social impact. In our conversation, Minnie talks about ethical and social problems that designers should be considering, the value of reflection and documentation after completing a project, and the importance of a designer’s motivation and inherent bias when working in new environments.

4 years ago

44 minutes 13 seconds

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Hugh Dubberly on Systems in Design Practice

On this episode, we talk with Hugh Dubberly, Principal of Dubberly Design Office, or DDO, in San Francisco, California. DDO focuses on making hardware, software, and services easier to use through their deep expertise in information and interaction design. Dubberly’s career has spanned many influential design leadership roles including Apple, Netscape, and Art Center College of Design. In our conversation, Hugh talks about the death of graphic design as we know it, gives thoughtful proposals for re-adapting designers’ skillsets, and the importance of understanding systems in the design practice of the 21st century.

4 years ago

42 minutes 22 seconds

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Live: Megan Ruhlach & Quba Michalski on Designing Space

On this episode, we talked with Senior Visual Designer Megan Ruhlach and Director of Innovation Quba Michalski from Blink, a research and design firm in Seattle, Washington. At the Seattle Interactive Conference, we sat down and talked with Megan and Quba about their uncommon career paths, their work with NASA, and their experiences in today's fast changing industry.

5 years ago

39 minutes 41 seconds

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Year 05 Trailer

This is Design School is coming back!

We’ve been hard at work crafting season 5 of the podcast over the last year. Stay tuned for the first episode of Year 05 of This is Design School, coming to your feed next Monday.

See you next week.

5 years ago

2 minutes 5 seconds

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Annabelle Gould on Criticism over Praise

On this episode, we talked with Annabelle Gould, an Associate Professor in the Division of Design at the School of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Washington in Seattle. Annabelle talks about the balance between being a designer and an educator, about how experimentation and the details of craft are critical to the design process, and the importance of finding your authentic purpose and voice in the ever broadening field of design.

5 years ago

41 minutes

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Sheryl Cababa on Unintended Consequences

On this episode, we interview Sheryl Cababa, an Executive Creative Director at Artefact in Seattle. Sheryl talks with us about the experience of designing in the Netherlands, how living abroad helped develop an ability to question the systems engrained in our own culture, and how we must consider unintended consequences in our design process.

5 years ago

39 minutes 24 seconds

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Jeff Barlow on Persistence

On this episode, we talked to Jeff Barlow, who is a Creative Director at Boeing. He shares his insight about how doing design well requires putting in the time, the importance of the craft of typography, and how a continuous and complete design education requires being present in the real world.

5 years ago

40 minutes

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Sean Munson on Finding Design’s Place

On this episode, we talked to Sean Munson, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Human Centered Design & Engineering program at the University of Washington. Sean shares how his childhood interest of building model Naval ships led him to the study of Engineering, and how design gave him a framework to get himself, and his peers, to ask the right questions and create the right solutions.

5 years ago

39 minutes 37 seconds