Monday, May 3, 2010

Journal 11

Debbie Millman is the President of the design division at Sterling Brands, an international design consultancy. She has been there for fourteen years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Campbell’s, Colgate, Hershey and Hasbro. Debbie is President of the AIGA, the professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine and the chair of the new Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet.

Design Matters is a weekly radio show where Debbie starts out usually with a story of her own life or experiences and ties it into the artist she interviews.

I listened to Stefan Sagmeister. I had previously watched the TED talk about his views on happiness. His formula to take a year off every seven years seems like a really good idea. 6 years of straight work seems like a lot, but when you think about it, most people work for 50 years in a row. The habbit of taking a year off gives you time to clear your mind and develop a new appreciation for design without getting disgusted with it. 6 years of work with only 7 off still gives you mass exposure to people without them forgetting who you are.