Debbie Millman is a partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands, one of the leading brand identity firms in the country. Millman is president of AIGA, and chair of the School of Visual Arts’ master’s program in Branding. She is a contributing editor to Print magazine and host of the podcast “Design Matters.” She is the author of How to Think like a Graphic Designer(Allworth Press, 2007), The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008) and Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design (How Books, 2009).
In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Jonathan Ford discusses going on eighteen job interviews before being hired by Michael Peters, his belief that a good idea cannot come from a computer, his interest in fear and the importance of doing work that is truthful.
I found it interesting that Ford went through over a dozen job rejections before actually receiving an offer. I appreciated his advice for future employees was to find a balance of hassling and staying present.
As a young designer, it helps to hear that even the best, most-well known and talented designers still have design angst. In this interview, Ford expressed his interest in fear. Within this discussion he comments on how "non-designers" look at the job and think, "Oh, how easy," "What fun." It's funny to me how much this sounds like my friends. His reassurance that even he feels enormous angst through the whole process of design, was comforting.
The last point I want to emphasis is his thought that original thinking comes from being fearless. I especially enjoyed a phrase from one of his quotes,
"[...] a healthy disrespect for conventions[...]"
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