Design Over Drinks
Design Over Drinks is an interview style podcast aiming to be a forum for emerging designers to talk about our philosophies, trends, experiences, successes, failures, diversity, advocacy, predictions, and everything in between. Why over drinks? Because designers often have a beverage in hand. Whether its a hot coffee or chai to start the day, or a glass of wine with coworkers to end it. A kombucha, or bubble tea, even that trusty bottle of water as we go from meeting to emails, to 30 minutes of actual work. We always have a hand for a drink. I started this podcast when Covid-19 hit in 2020. I spent a lot of time listening to the giants of design talk about what they predicted the future to be like, and how our profession will adapt as our world changes. Although that is important, I felt disconnected from the designer who is doing the production work, the designer who had to adapt because their schooling was like no others. I wanted to talk to the designer who will be the potential "giant" of the future. I like being a designer, but I love to talk about it more. My younger self hoped to someday be an art curator and a philosopher. In a way this is how I still hope to do just that. Become a patron at Patreon.com/DesignOverDrinksPod and follow us on Instagram @designoverdrinkspod as we connect with designers and down our drinks along the way.
Design Over Drinks
Design Over Drinks Episode 2.3 - A Layman Asks #2 (Free Version)
In this episode we touch on the the following topics.
- Construction Documents
- Form Parti
- Mid-Century Modern; what is it? Why it is used too much; in our opinion & how might we move past white-coded design?
Here's a link to the Slate article Simon refers to; talking about the problematic history of Mid-Century Modern Design.
Here is a link to the book by Kristina Wilson; Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body who is interviewed in the Slate article. This is at the top of our reading list for this year, now.
There are people doing work in the area of Diversity in Design, you can join in the discussion or be a part of the slow, but important process of making change. Check out the links below.
https://diversityindesign.com/
https://iida.org/articles/introducing-the-iida-equity-council