Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Moroccan (Andalusia-Based) activist and comics author Zainab Fasiki. They start the conversation discussing her how she has been an avid reader of French comics as a teenager in Fez. Then discovered political comics from Moroccan and Arab authors, and started developing narratives, and drawing characters in her notebooks, unconsciously turning her notebooks in comics books. When she turned 16, her older brother gave her a graphic tablet as a gift, believing in her

A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Nils Leonard from Uncommon Creative Studio ~ Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com | desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/ (Use: PODCAST f...

Send us Fan Mail MEET LEILAH: A MOTHER, EDUCATOR AND PASSIONATE COLLECTOR ABOUT ALL TRADITIONAL PALESTINIAN DRESS AND HISTORY (@leilah_ia). Three generations removed from Palestine, with family scattered across Brazil, Kuwait, Jordan, and Ramallah, she grew up watching her grandmother work on thobes. It wasn't until she went searching for one of her own during a pandemic wedding that collecting became a calling. What she found online was a market flooded with mislabeled "ceremonial robes," mo...

At eight years old, Jonathan was driving a truck out to the fields with snacks for the crew on his grandparents' 400 acre Idaho farm. Garrett was a Newport Beach kid decorating his bedroom like a beach house inside a craftsman home. Today the married duo run BrewerSweet Co., a full service interior design studio in Southern California with a growing footprint in Park City, Utah.Jonathan's Twin Falls childhood was pure adventure: bottle feeding calves, raising a litter of 25 puppies, building

In this 1st Episode of the second series of my podcast Moments in Motion, I speak with the fascinating and very humane award winning artist and architectural colour specialist Sonia van de Haar.Over her 22 year career Sonia has taken her background in rural Australia, her studies in fine art and architecture and her passion for using the power of colour to convey a deep meaning of a place and its people and to support, guide, teach and heal anyone who comes into any of the environments she is

Dan Martensen is a portrait and fashion photographer whose work appears in Vogue, i-D and WSJ Magazine. He’s also the founder of It’s Bagels, bringing the New York-style bagel he grew up with to London.In this conversation, Dan talks about being uprooted from his childhood home at eleven, struggling to fit in at school, and learning to hide his sensitivity to get by.We discuss how those early experiences influenced his work as a photographer, his instinctive ability to connect with people,

We keep building for the average user, but the real friction lives at the edges where standard heuristics fail the bottom third of our audience. Patrick Neeman argues that we must respect Doherty’s threshold to keep humans in the loop long enough to catch AI errors, while Kai Wong suggests looking to farmers’ markets to design tangible, inclusive experiences for those with lower literacy. Meanwhile, the community is dissecting the subtle affordances of hover states and cross-platform iconography to

What happens when a master potter decides to break all the rules?In the first of two episodes, Stephanie Rozene and Paul Greenhalgh explore the life and work of Peter Voulkos, the artist who helped transform American ceramics after the Second World War. From his Montana childhood and wartime service to his first encounter with clay, Voulkos begins as a brilliantly skilled traditional potter. But through teachers, fellow artists and the experimental world of 1950s America, he starts cutting, tearing

Danielle Zdanowski and Devin Zdanowski are husband and wife, business partners, and, before any of that, friends. A year into building a jewelry brand out of their New York apartment, they came on the show to talk about how it started, what they got wrong, and why nobody can predict which piece will sell.At Present Founder Marc Bridge with Deux Amis Founders Danielle Zdanowski and Devin Zdanowski at the Hotel Chelsea, New York City.Deux Amis means “two friends,” and Dani and Devin insist that’s the

The Indi Collective highlights a candid approach to wedding photography that allows genuine moments to unfold naturally. Instead of making every photograph feel carefully staged, the focus is placed on real emotions, relationships, and spontaneous interactions. Wedding celebrations are filled with small moments that can become meaningful memories, including laughter, family reactions, quiet conversations, and emotional exchanges. The Indi Collective combines these authentic moments with thoughtful

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What do two successful designers admit when there is no guest to interview and the questions are coming straight back at them? Sarah Reid is the host of Her Design Her Story, and in this special episode of Behind the Design, Camilla Ingall and Sarah Reid turn the questions on each other, reflecting on the careers, shows, businesses and lessons that have shaped where they are today.As the conversation unfolds, they revisit the moments that challenged their confidence, changed their direction and made

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction In a small studio above McClay Street in Potts Point, Alexandra Kidd has spent more than 20 years shaping how Australian homes can feel. What began as a solo practice has grown, slowly and deliberately, into an all-women studio of twelve. But beneath the elegant, celebrated work sits a story most successful founders never tell: a breakdown at the end of 2018 that stopped her mid-conversation on a building site, and the slow, hone...

A Response to Howard Kuo's Essay on International Club Design Howard Kuo's Spring/Summer 2026 Forum essay argues that domestic private clubs have lessons to learn from international club models — and on several counts, he's correct. But the essay treats design as if design were the primary lever, when in reality it is a mid-level lever in a much larger system that includes business model, operational culture, labor economics, historical context, and membership identity. The stronger critique of the

Why spend time examining—or even physically making—"BAD ART"? Is there something to be learned by making BAD ART?Jack kicks off the discussion with her signature college assignment: forcing students to imagine, write about, and physically build the worst piece of art possible to locate their personal "origin of disgust". The trio digs into what it means to experience true artistic disgust—not just mild disliking, but a visceral, blood-boiling reaction to work you feel shouldn't exist or be consumed

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Six Years In: Business, Family Seasons, and Using AI as a Support Tool (with Aiden) Host Rhiannon Lee introduces a 2024 catch-up conversation with her husband, Aidan, reflecting on how their family and her business have evolved into its sixth year, including the pressures of supporting other designers through her framework. She shares a new small-group live business-planning series for six women starting late October, focused on quarterly strat...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when an architect believes that a wealthy client’s “money is no object” assurance on a commission for a dream lakeside resort, results in chaos? In this episode we discover how unchecked hourly billing, endless design changes, and unspoken budgets can turn a glamorous project into a million-dollar, protracted legal ordeal. Connect with Pro-Demnity: Leave a Review Follow us on LinkedInAccess our Risk Education LibrarySpeak with a Risk Services ...

Most business books tell you to fix your head. Guest Ryan Roghaar printed out a revenue goal, stuck it on his office wall, and read it every morning for a year. He ended the year exactly where he started and that's when he figured out belief was never the thing getting him into the room.Back on Mark It 2 Me for the first time since Episode 2, the author of The Lid and co-host of Eggs! The Podcast breaks down the two halves of what stops people who are already good at what they do: the internal story

Inspiration images from Pinterest, Instagram and magazines can be a brilliant starting point for your home design, but they don't always tell the full story. In this episode, Frances explains what those beautiful images may not show, the hidden costs of trying to copy them, and how to use inspiration to create a functional, long-lasting Forever Home™ that is uniquely yours.

I have used AI since the first models were released. I describe how and what I use AI for and why I would rather keep my agency than use AI agents. Check out Canadian Wearable Object on our web page at https://tribe.caIt's my artist statement about Canada's relationship with AmericaTRIBE – Custom Made Jewelry and Art – Product of Canada Send an email to alexd@cannabisgoldsmith.com to get on our mailing list or to order custom jewelry products from TRIBE. Note that we no longer sell to the