The Best Podcasts for Design Inspiration
If you haven’t already stepped into the world of podcasts, you should. Podcasts are a very good tool for all entrepreneurs and design lovers. Unlike other media, you can listen to podcasts on the way to work, while doing household chores or on an evening walk with your pet, all you need are headphones and a smartphone. Nowadays, you can find podcasts on almost every topic you can imagine, so they haven’t bypassed design either. In this blog, we will introduce you to some of the podcasters that are our favorites. It may inspire you, it may teach you something, and it may even make you laugh.
1. Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman is an American writer, designer, illustrator, brand manager, educator and host of one of the oldest and most successful podcasts. Design Matters is a podcast that began in 2005 and has since hosted over 500 designers, artists, managers, marketing professionals such as Seth Godin, Ai WeiWei, Massimo Vignelli, Adam Grant, David Byrne and many others. If you love hearing about artists’ stories, how they have achieved success, what inspires them, how they think about art and the world in general, this is the ideal podcast for you. You can listen to the podcast on streaming services like Spotify, Deezer, Google Podcast, iTunes or Soundcloud. Here we highlight an episode that you can listen to on Spotify, with renowned Chinese artist Ai WEiWei, which we have already mentioned in our blog “10 documentaries for creatives”.
2. Design Better Podcast
This podcast, hosted by Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery, designers and managers from InvisionApp, brings us conversations with many leading people from well-known companies such as Netflix, Apple TV +, Spotify, Logitech and many others. If you want to learn more about how big companies make design and creative decisions, who is behind many of them, and get lots of new information that can help you make decisions for your business, don’t miss this podcast. You can listen to it on most streaming services, and we bring you an episode in which Steve Johnson and Rochelle King, a creative duo from Netflix, explain how Netflix decides its creative path and how it became a global player because of it.
3. UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
For all the fans of UI design and marketing, the podcast UI Breakfast by Jane Portman is one that you definitely want to have on your playlist. Full of the latest information from the world of UI design, conversations with experts in economics, design, programming and marketing, with this podcast you can expand your knowledge and get inspiration for your own work. You can listen to the podcast on most streaming services, and in the episode “Producing Technical Content”, Jane talks to Karl Hughes about content marketing.
4. The Honest Designers Show
The Honest Designers Show is created by 4 graphic design experts: Tom Ross, founder of DesignCuts.com, Ian Barnard, expert in calligraphy and typography, Lisa Glanz, illustrator, and Dustin Lee, founder of RetroSupply.co. In this fun podcast with over 200 episodes, learn more about graphic design and marketing, listen to conversations with industry artists and have fun. This entertaining podcast will surely be a place to return to, and for you we’ve picked an episode about the future of the graphic design industry. Whether graphic design is threatened by the development of AI technology, listen here:
5. The Futur with Chris Do
We’ve already mentioned this podcast in our article on the YouTube channels we love, so it’s no wonder we’ve put Chris Do and his The Futur podcast on this list as well. Chris Do is an Emmy Award-winning director and designer who talks about graphic design, marketing and entrepreneurship on his YouTube channel and podcast. In conversation with many experts in this field, you can learn about how to run a successful business, about the graphic design industry and its trends, and listen to inspirational stories from many successful people. You can listen to this podcast on most streaming platforms, and we’ve selected the latest episode in which Jake Fellman, the successful TikToker and Youtuber talks about his success:
6. The Logo Geek Podcast
Wondering what it takes to create a good logo? What is brand identity and why is it important? You can learn all about the world of logo design, visual identity and branding from award-winning logo (graphic) designer Ian Paget in his podcast The Logo Geek. New trends in logo design, useful tips on designing a logo and branding all this and more you can find right here, and we have selected an episode on how to design the perfect logo with Tamari Chabukiani:
