My travel, food and interiors inspirations, why I moved from Italy to London, and my experience with late pregnancy loss: I chat about it all on Maria Le Mesurier Podcast. Plus, a little life update._Follow Maria on @marialemesurierMaria Le Mesurier Podcast is both on Spotify and Apple PodcastFollow me on @thevenetianpantryFollow the show @spillingtea_podcast to see snippets of the conversations and related contentShop my homeware range on thevenetianpantry.com This is a public episode. If you'd

Who among us hasn’t wondered what creative life might be like at an in-house agency? Well wonder no more as big-thinking, in-house convert Tom Opie shares his experiences copywriting for Tennis Australia, and as Creative Director for global wine behemoth Treasury Wine Estates at their in-house advertising agency, Splash.

Send us Fan Mail Part 1 - Continuing the conversation on manual sketching in practice. Whatever you do in architecture school, you are preparing for a fast-paced industry where deadlines serve financial goals — and where sketching has quietly become an undervalued skill. What gets lost with it is the architect: the intuition, the authorship, the sense of a building made by someone rather than generated by software. Grant Harris of HB Architecture puts it well across two recent pieces. Drawing...

In this episode, Mairéad Morgan, community lead at Autodesk, shares her inspiring journey from architecture to digital innovation, highlighting key lessons on career growth, mentorship, and embracing technology in the AEC industry.key topics Mairéad Morgan's career highlights and journey Mentorship and industry influence Digital transformation and AI in architecture Community building and industry support Challenges and lessons in technology adoption takeaways Hard work and persistence are key

Today on Window Treatments for ProfitYou may be a company of one, but that doesn’t mean your memory should be the system running your business. In Part 4 of the Small on Purpose series, LuAnn explains why documented, repeatable systems matter even when you have no intention of building a large team. Systems protect the client experience, reduce the things you have to remember and rescue, and make it possible to bring in help or step away without everything depending on you. LuAnn shares how

As summer draws to a close and we reflect on America’s 250th anniversary, Americana is having a moment—and no one has defined it more beautifully or enduringly than Ralph Lauren.My guest today, interior designer Javier Burkle, knows that world firsthand. After working with Ralph Lauren, he founded the Dallas-based firm Burkle Creative. A two-time featured designer at the prestigious Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, Javier has also been recognized by Architectural Digest, Veranda, ELLE

Tom and Jonny sit down with Gabriella Hachem, co-founder of Dessn and the podcast’s first design tool founder. They dig into why Dessn runs your codebase in the cloud so you can design on production, unpack the read-only decision that shaped the product, and go behind the scenes of building a design tool while the models caught up.Key takeawaysDessn runs your codebase in the cloud so you can design on top of the real thing. No local setup and no coding, and the page you pull onto the canvas

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform interior design operations, but lasting results depend on standardized data, connected workflows, and repeatable processes—not AI alone. This course explores best practices for building an AI-ready design and procurement practice by reducing manual work, improving specification management, standardizing product data, and connecting design, financial, and procurement workflows. Participants will learn practical strategies to improve

Send us Fan Mail Principals aren't encouraging young architects to sketch any more. What firms hire for is Revit proficiency; sketching has been demoted to a personal plus, useful to the graduate but not asked for by the organisation. So I put the question to a former student of mine, Aminuddin Zakaria — a design architect and BIM lead working on civic and institutional projects at Arkiskape Sdn Bhd — and his answer was blunt. He sees very few graduates sketching in practice, and even experie...

This episode is part of a series called, Engineering The Everyday.In collaboration with Godrej Design LabSummaryWhy do potholes keep returning, and what would it take to build roads that last? Prathap Rao breaks down how roads are actually built, where they fail, and why maintenance is only part of the problem. We also discuss GridMats, recycled plastic, infrastructure innovation, slow adoption, and what India needs to rethink as it builds the next generation of roads.About the guestPrathap Rao is

Dr. Stefanie Hutka, design researcher, Berkeley educator, and author of What Your Machines Should Do, joins us to look to the history of industrial automation for lessons on AI transformation. From Toyota's jidoka and the andon cord to Taylorism's lingering grip, we explore why AI amplifies whatever conditions it finds, and why strategy and values must come before the tools.

Send us Fan Mail Geneva Watch Days content will continue to air daily until September 27th, before our weekly frequency resumes. If you have any questions for our many guests, feel free to get in touch via the usual channels. Follow the hosts on Instagram @alonbenjoseph, @scarlintheshire, @davaucher, @vukradic, and @robnudds. Thanks to @skillymusic for the theme tune.

In this episode, host Jake Fabish speaks with Gabe Norcross about his path from custom carpentry in California to founding Norcross Builders in Louisville, his design-first approach to craftsmanship, and the lessons learned running a construction business.Gabe also shares his personal story of struggle and recovery, the relaunch of his nonprofit Resilience to Reform to support mental health in the trades, and his belief in collaboration over competition to raise the bar for local design and

Who am I? Who is Alchemy of Home?In the first ever episode of the Alchemy of Home Podcast, host and Holistic Home Stylist, Liz, introduces herself and Alchemy of Home.She shares a bit of the backstory that led to a podcast, and the mission behind Alchemy of Home.This podcast discusses the millennial experience of life not panning out the way we thought it would, how our identities are the bedrock of everything we do, and how we can return to ourselves, creating our own identities, through the

"We know where people are dying and being seriously injured. To me, that's enough."Lauren Grove, Vision Zero Coordinator for the City of Durham, joins Jeremiah LaDuca for part two of the Vision Zero series. In Durham, 10% of streets account for 74% of traffic deaths and serious injuries, and she says about 80% of that high injury network is state-owned road. She came to Durham after six years doing this work in Houston.In this episode:How Durham built its high injury network, weighting the most

I talked with Stephen Bottomley, Head of the School of Design at Glasgow School of Art and a working goldsmith whose own pieces sit in the British Museum and National Museums Scotland.Stephen studies something called the overview effect, the shift in perspective astronauts describe when they see Earth from space. He uses it as a lens for craft too. The point was never the travel itself, it’s having new eyes for what’s already right in front of you.We talked a lot about the craft education in the age

Climate tech has reached a turning point. The hard part isn't innovation anymore – it's scaling. Many technologies work brilliantly at pilot stage but struggle when companies try to build first commercial plants. There's a critical gap between venture capital (which funds prototyping) and infrastructure capital (which backs proven systems) – the industrialisation gap, or 'valley of death.'In this episode, Dave Touhey from Ara Partners explains to Martin Wood how his firm

Today with Kelly Finley:Kelly Finley built the firm you're told to want. Nine people. Two offices, one in California and one in Georgia. Major projects, press, a team that could run circles without her in the room. From the outside, she'd made it. Then her husband's job moved the family to Georgia, and the model that got her there started costing her more than it gave back. The distance between offices. The team changes that came with distance. The quality control that got harder to hold onto