Design in Mind: Recent Episodes
Arkitektura Assembly
Design In Mind sits down with today's leading designers and design thinkers for a candid conversation about their life, their work and how they have come to see the world. Here, we get a chance to delve more deeply into the creative mind of these important designers and, through that, better understand the world we live in. Design in Mind is an extension of a series of live events in San Francisco called Arkitektura Assembly where designers of all disciplines come and share their work and ideas with the vibrant San Francisco creative community. For more information on the series, please visit assembly.arksf.com
Born in Spain and rooted in Italy, Patricia always had aspirations to become an architect and designer.
Jay Osgerby’s industrial design career has been defined by a deep-seated appetite for experimentation, beginning with his childhood years building fireworks in the shed of his family’s countryside home.
Hella Jongerius approaches design with the analytic intensity of a scientist. Every design is a manifestation of a well-researched hypothesis…
When you look at Nacho Carbonell’s work, you’re taken into another world. His works are tactile and intimate, alive and engaging.
Job Smeets was a star student at Design Academy Eidhoven when he graduated in 1996. Belgian in origin, he went […]
Paul Cocksedge Studio creates wide ranging designs but the through line is a sense of it being made for the people to engage with.
The Campana Brothers have been making their indelible mark furniture design for nearly three decades.
Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou have been working together and been inspired by each other since they met in University over 20 years ago.
Like all the people we speak with on Design in Mind, Konstantin Grcic is one of the very best designers making work today.
Part 2 with Gaetano Pesce's–one of the most important designers of the 20th and 21st century.
Gaetano Pesce is one of the most important designers of the 20th and 21st century. His designs are unparalleled in their exploration of color, material and form.
Matteo Thun is one of today’s most well respected architects. His firm, Matteo Thun and Partners, has a diverse range of work all over the world.
If you read the New Yorker, there is a very high probability you have come across Maira Kalman’s work.
Jehs and Laub, the dynamic design duo working out of Stuttgart, Germany but recognized worldwide, make no compromises.
Christophe Pillet’s initial passions lay in music and he came to design almost happenstance.
In this interview, we speak about his inspirations, the importance, and challenge, of staying true to yourself and how great design comes from many long moments of staring off into space.
George Beylerian has been many things—a curator, a collector, an entrepreneur—but perhaps the title he feels most comfortable with, the one that describes what is at the heart of all that he has done, is merchant.
Designer and artist Max Lamb is one of today’s most adventurous and intriguing creatives.
Neri & Hu cannot be pinned down. From architecture to objects, interiors to installations, Neri & Hu are one of the most well respected designers today.
We speak of his initial love for light, the films and artists that inspire him and his commitment to not making compromises.
In the inaugural episode of our Design In Mind podcast, we speak with John Maeda. We explore his family roots, how meditation has kept him balanced, and the importance of trying it all.
The work of Anastassiades is immediately recognizable because of its consistent commitment to elegance and refinement.
In the design galaxy, many strain to be the brightest star. Stephen Burks, however, has mapped an altogether alternate constellation.
Laurene Boym’s practice ranges from self produced objects through to commissioned design work, and subjects as diverse as kitchen utensils to the poetics of disaster.
Paola Antonelli has been senior curator of art and design at the MoMA since 1994. In that time, she has seen the revolution design has gone through and and has presented it through some of the most dynamic exhibitions in the world.
Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most interesting, dynamic, diverse, controversial and well known designers today.
Here, we are in conversation with Sebastian Herkner, one of today’s most rising stars in design.
We speak with Omer Arbel who initially started as an architect but came to prominence through lighting. He candidly speaks about his love of craft and how the first light he presented caught him by surprise.
Tom Dixon designs it all: furniture, objects, lighting, scents, interiors, restaurants, hotels and even music. Before starting his own brand, he was creative director of Habitat, a groundbreaking interiors company.
What design is today? The best moments from the last year's interviews in one easy listen. Fukasawa, Bellini, Gamper, Spiekermann, Birsel, Hecht and Maeda tell us how they got started and what’s most important to them.
Design is a process. It’s a way of seeing and creating. International product designer and author Ayse Birsel proposes using that process on your own life through her book Design the Life You Love.
Master of design, Naoto Fukasawa sits down with us in studio to discuss his work, philosophy and how he hand built his own house.
Design in Mind conversation with Mario Bellini, architect, urban planner, industrial designer, furniture designer, curator, writer, editor and a leading voice in design of the last century.
Here, we are in conversation with Erik Spiekermann, one of the leading graphic designers and typographers in the world. His original claim to fame was designing all the sign and typeface for the Berlin underground rail system but...
Industrial designer Sam Hecht visited us in San Francisco to discuss design, the strength of a concise office team, working with Muji and how growing up inspired his early tinkering.
Martino Gamper sat down with us for an afternoon whilst here for his talk at Arkitektura. Gamper talks food, community and how his wife inspires him to use more color.
One night, Giulio Cappellini was having some drinks and decided to take a dramatic turn in his life. We speak about his home, his unique vision, and his love for furniture.