Listeners Preferred the AI Song… Rithik Kundu on What a Blind Test Reveals About Taste, Originality & the Future of MusicWhat happens when listeners don't know which song was made by a human and which was made by AI?Rithik Kundu is a Brooklyn-based music-tech researcher, producer, and investor working where generative audio, AI, and music rights meet. He founded NYU Generative Audio & AI, is a managing partner at Joker Deck Ventures, and contributes to the World Intellectual Property

Today's episode is a short excerpt from a conversation with one of our incredible Proof to Product community members. I love sharing these conversations because building a product brand doesn't follow a single pathway. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy that works for everyone because no two businesses are the same. We learn so much by hearing how other people are making decisions, the ideas that they're testing out, and also how they're navigating both the ups and downs that come with

How can architects leverage their lateral thinking beyond traditional design practice to drive value in construction technology, entrepreneurship, and business leadership?In this episode of Practice Disrupted, host Evelyn Lee explores the power of alternative career paths in the AEC industry and how architectural training prepares designers for executive leadership outside traditional practice. Evelyn sits down with Daron Pardine, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Primera Works, a technology

Host Dennis Scully and BOH executive editor Fred Nicolaus discuss the biggest news in the design world, including the shocking rise in renovation costs, bankruptcy for Designers Guild, and what happened to mushroom leather. Later, designer Richard Keith Langham joins the show to talk about Antiques at the Gardens.This episode is sponsored by Joon Loloi and NKBALINKSRichard Keith LanghamAntiques at the GardensBusiness of Home

Original Air Date: October 1, 2026 Episode Number: 479Episode SummaryDan opens with two questions: what's the weirdest thing in your house that you've never been able to explain, and what's the strangest thing you've ever found in one that you weren't looking for? Then he spends the full episode on his own answer. His first house was a 1928 place in Zeeland, bought in 1999, and it came with kitchen cabinets mounted so high he needed a ladder to reach the second of four shelves. Nobody could explain

Get ready to be swept away to a world of magic and giant swords, when Araxie Miller joins us to talk about her love of Japanese role-playing games. She explains what sets them apart from Western RPGs: rather than asking who you want to be, they invite you into a world of existing characters, deep story arcs, and themes of friendship, sacrifice, and hope. From discovering Chrono Trigger in 1995 to playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with her husband, Araxie traces how JRPGs have been a constant

Business has slowed down—but how are you marketing your creative business?If the answer is “I’m not,” that may be the problem.For this episode, Steph secretly filled a cocktail shaker with 15 ways to generate leads. Ben sees each method for the first time on camera, and they rate it from one to five based only on what has worked for them or people they know personally.In part one, they tackle LinkedIn, local meetups, walk-ins, online marketplaces, conferences, and referrals. Some methods earn nearly

The smallest details can have the biggest impact in a bathroom. In this episode of the Dear Alice Interior Design Podcast, we share overlooked bathroom design details that make a space more functional, comfortable, and elevated.We cover everything from vanity storage, makeup organization, and refrigerated drawers to layered lighting, mirrors, shower design, niches, hardware, plumbing finishes, rugs, and towels. We also dive into powder bathroom ideas, including adding furniture, decorative

Some wedding weeks feel chaotic before the flowers even arrive. Others can involve a massive scope, a full team, multiple events, complicated installs—and somehow still feel surprisingly calm. In this episode, I’m breaking down what I’ve changed over the years to make production weeks feel easier, and a lot of it has very little to do with what happens during production week itself. Physically prepping hard goods before flowers arrive is great- but it's only the tip of the iceberg in planning...

Send us Fan Mail A boutique can be profitable and still refuse the “scale at all costs” playbook. We’re joined by Rebecca D'Emic, one of the women behind Elegant Child, to unpack how a Boca Raton children’s boutique becomes a 20-year success story built on curation, customer experience, and community trust. Rebecca takes us back to the origin: a mom with an eye for fashion, weekends of garage-sale treasure hunting, and early storefront lessons that turn into a brand rooted in taste and prese...

Recorded live at the Mannington Atlanta showroom, this episode explores a question facing every industry: as Gen Z enters the workforce, are we collectively setting them up to succeed?Gen Z is entering a workplace with changing context to the one we entered. AI is changing how work gets done. Communication norms are shifting. Career paths are less linear. And the definition of “work ready” is changing right along with them. So, what does Gen Z need to learn? What does the workplace need to unlearn

Illustrator and artist MURUGIAH on leaving architecture, finding his own style, and opening the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration with his first solo museum show."Everything you've done, it doesn't have to just end. It can be fuel for what you do next."MURUGIAH trained as an architect for seven years before turning to illustration. Born in Burton upon Trent and raised in South Wales with Sri Lankan heritage, he spent more than a decade searching for a style that felt his own. A mentor's advice

EP.113 - Today I’m talking to the English textile designer, Tori Murphy. Tori started her brand in 2012 with 12m of fabric woven in Lancashire that was turned into a capsule collection of cushions & throws that quickly got stocked by Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Daylesford & Selfridges. 14yrs on, Tori has worked globally on home & commercial projects - & is well known for her timeless & sustainable fabrics & products, which are all produced in England.Tori’s website is http://www.torimurphy.com & IG is

What if your kitchen could talk?It might tell you more about how you care for yourself than you realize.→ Get your free guide here: https://kitchenbathdigest.com/This conversation explores the home as a mirror, healthy materials, natural light, flow, ventilation, self-care, and how our spaces can either support us or quietly drain us. Carolyn shares how design goes deeper than what we see. It is also about what we touch, breathe, feel, and live with every day.If you have ever tolerated a space that

👉 Grab one of the last seat for AI for Designers: https://ai-for-designers.comAI is taking over more and more of the making. What's left for us as designers is the meeting where it all gets decided, and I think most of us never learned how to handle that part.In this episode I talk with facilitator and workshop designer Brittni Bowering, who has run sessions for teams at Google, Procter & Gamble, Lufthansa and PVH. We skip the career story and go straight into three meetings you have

Sharing October updates, so you can learn about each guest and their movie, and watch or re-watch their movie of choice before you hear upcoming episodes. NOTE: there may be a Spooky Movie Theme here, we are near Halloween after all.-SCREAM (1996) with Matt Manos, who may not have worked on the movie but knows it backwards & forwards and has a lot to say about how masks are not only very necessary for each SCREAM killer but we discuss how masks also play a role in what designers

This week, Claire is joined by Tim Perry, a trained industrial designer who led the agency Webb deVlam through to its sale in 2016. Before that, Tim worked in design strategy at the height of Nokia’s success. He has judged for D&AD and Creativepool and is now a consultant, working with leaders of independent design agencies to help them grow. He has also developed a series of training courses focused on the business side of design. In this episode, Tim talks to Claire about: + His time ...

In the Season 3 finale of Creatives Like Us I'm joined by Sandra Palmer, a Birmingham-based surreal collage artist. After more than 16 years as a designer in lingerie and swimwear, she began making collages during lockdown. It became a way to slow down, practise mindfulness and reconnect with the creativity she has had since childhood. In this episode we talk about why there was never a single moment she knew she was creative, handling imposter syndrome with a simple daily gratitude practice,

Paul Finch has spent more than four decades at the centre of British architectural culture, editing key publications, chairing CABE and co-founding the World Architecture Festival. Tim spoke to him about architectural criticism and about his friend the late Jeremy Melvin

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