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 6 - Kendyl Smith
Episode 6 of Design Over Drinks, Kendra talks with Kendyl Smith @kendyl._smith
Current Firm: Shepel Homes Design & Build
Design Program Attended: University of Idaho
Drink of Choice: Red Wine
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
IDI: Chair Affair
Charrette
IIDA National Student Design Charette in Chicago - I can't find anything on the National Charrette directly, but most IIDA chapters host a local one.
NEWH
ASID
NeoCon
The Ailey School
Rey, The Force Awakens
Chief Architect
Autodesk (AuoCad/ Revit)
IBM Personal Computer
Apple computers (the colored ones)
Palm Pilot
NCIDQ
WELL
LEED
Moulin Rouge
Favorite Designer:
Frank Lloyd Wright (was the closest)
Fallingwater
The Eames
Sherwin Williams Kendal Green
If you head over to our Patreon, you can see photos of Kendyl's Chair affair chair!
Beginning of Interview: 0:57
The Fun Stuff: 2:17:45