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journal 11: Debbie MILLMAN

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, like said above, is the first of its kind. and for someone to be the first in something in design is always impressive and im sure it feels a need that a lot of designers would like filled. not all of us are quite into the top 40 hits that seem like garbage to our ears. so good for debbie and the design world!

Besides that overview, she seems extremely down to earth, her interviews, are funny and coy and surprisingly humble. one would think to be a little more stuck up with the resume she has. When she interviews jakob trollback, she sounds like junior high school girl who has a crush on trollback's talents, which struck me as odd, but refreshing to hear such a refined professional be so amazed by another persons works. overall she is really cool and very impressive.