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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.

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Design & Pop Culture: The TV to Designer Pipeline and its Influence

June 27, 2025 • Kendra Shea, Host • Season 3

This episode is a doozy. A mega episode if you will. This one covers a lot and am grateful to have good friend Amanda Kratochvil along for this one as we discuss the ways Interior Design is represented in TV and Movies. We also get some insight from some other designers who were inspired to become designers by DIY TV. I had such fun talking about the way pop culture has shaped the publics perception of what we do, and how we want to see ourselves represented. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

Welcome & Intro: 0:40

Opening/ Trading Spaces Discussion: 3:31

Designer Interviews discussing HGTV and Trading Spaces: 39:51

Introduction of our Guests and their time in the Industry: 40:20

Perception of Design in TV and Movies: 1:27:07

Pillow Talk (1959): 1:30:24

Designing Women (1986) S1 E6: 1:40:31

Beetlejuice (1988): 1:48:10

The First Wives Club (1996): 1:56:28

Will & Grace (1999) S5 E22: 2:04:24

The Personalities of Reality DIY TV: 2:11:08