Books by Debbie Millman
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
Foreword by Roxane Gay
“Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast, ‘about how the most creative people in the world create their lives,’ to the page with this excellent interview anthology. Sharpened by Millman’s penetrating commentary, the candid musings teem with insight and empathy. This sparkling collection is one to be savored slowly.”—Publisher’s Weekly
The author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast Design Matters showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.
“Debbie Millman has become a singular voice in the world of intimate, enlightening conversations. She has demonstrated time, and again, why design matters.”—Roxane Gay, from the foreword
Over the course of her popular podcast’s fifteen-year reign, Debbie Millman has interviewed more than 400 creative minds. In those conversations, she has not only explored what it means to design a creative life, but has, as Millman’s wife, Roxane Gay, assesses in her foreword, “created a gloriously interesting and ongoing conversation about what it means to live well, overcome trauma, face rejection, learn to love and be loved, and thrive both personally and professional.”
In this illustrated, curated anthology, Millman includes approximately 80 of her best interviews with visionaries from across diverse fields. Grouped by category—Legends, Truth Tellers, Culture Makers, Trendsetters, and Visionaries—these eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening conversations—offer insights into new ways of being and living.
Accompanying each entry is a brief biography, a portrait photographed by Millman, and a pull quote written in Millman’s artistic hand. Why Design Matters features 100 images and includes interviews with:
Marina Abramovic, Cey Adams, Elizabeth Alexander, Laurie Anderson, Lynda Barry, Allison Bechdel, Michael Bierut, Brené Brown, Alain de Botton, Eve Ensler, Shepard Fairey, Tim Ferriss, Louise Fili, Kenny Fries, Anand Girhidardas, Cindy Gallop, Malcolm Gladwell, Milton Glaser, Ira Glass, Seth Godin, Thelma Golden, Gabrielle Hamilton, Steven Heller, Jessica Hische, Michael R. Jackson, Oliver Jeffers, Saeed Jones, Thomas Kail, Maira Kalman, Chip Kidd, Anne Lamott, Elle Luna, Carmen Maria Machado, Thomas Page McBee, Erin McKeown, Chanel Miller, Mike Mills, Marilyn Minter, Isaac Mizrahi, Nico Muhly, Eileen Myles, Emily Oberman, Amanda Palmer, Priya Parker, Esther Perel, Maria Popova, Edel Rodriguez, Paula Scher, Amy Sherald, Simon Sinek, Pete Souza, Aminatou Sow, Brandon Stanton, Cheryl Strayed, Amber Tamblyn, Christina Tosi, Tea Uglow, Chris Ware, and Albert Watson.
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Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
An unprecedented and engaging look at the state of modern branding, with interviews with Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Virginia Postel, Joe Duffy, Dori Turnstall and more!
The notion of the brand, like any concept that dominates markets and public consciousness, is a challenge to define. Is it a simple differentiator of the cereals in our cupboards, a manipulative brainwashing tool forced on us by corporations, or a creative triumph as capable as any art form of stimulating our emotions and intellect?
For those of us who grapple with these questions on a daily basis, Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits elevates the discussion to the level of revelation. Each chapter is an extensive dialogue between Debbie Millman, herself a design visionary, and a different leader in the field. By asking questions deeply informed by her own expertise, Millman coaxes lucid, prescient answers from twenty-two interview subjects, among them Malcolm Gladwell, Tom Peters, Seth Godin, and godfather of modern branding Wally Olins.
This engaging and enlightening book is an unprecedented forum on the state of modern branding and how companies and consumers can best understand the behavior behind why we brand and why we buy.
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Love Letter to a Garden
Debbie Millman is known as an award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the popular podcast Design Matters, but she is also an avid gardener. Love Letter to the Garden tells the highly visual story of creating her gardens in New York and Los Angeles and the philosophies that work conjures.
Debbie Millman-an award-winning writer, designer, and host of the podcast Design Matters-always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener, we're all just questing for a garden, a journey that develops over time, through space, and evolves along with our hearts. In Love Letter to a Garden, Debbie Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden-and the plants she has collected along the way-a process that started with handed-down houseplants from beloved friends and a lone peony observed for many seasons on a city street until it one day disappeared. This led to Millman growing gardens in both New York City and Los Angeles. Spread throughout are simple recipes using the garden's ingredients from Millman's wife, bestselling author Roxane Gay. Love Letter to a Garden is a little gem of a book-an inspiring, impulse-friendly story that can be read in one setting, then shared, experienced, pollinated, and perpetuated.
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The Remarkable Life Deck A Ten-Year Plan for Achieving Your Dreams
From design legend Debbie Millman comes a deck that will empower and inspire you to achieve the life of your dreams.
This goal-setting deck will help you turn your big ambitions into a set of clearly delineated goals that can be achieved over the course of a decade. THE REMARKABLE LIFE DECK provides prompts to identify your hopes and aspirations, and, by daring you to dream them, helps you make those dreams a reality. Featuring 30 cards with generative prompts, an instructional booklet, and a workbook for creating your own ten-year plan, this deck makes a meaningful gift for graduates, people contemplating a big life change, and anyone searching for clarity and direction.
POWERHOUSE AUTHOR: Debbie Millman has led a remarkable life and has had an extraordinarily productive career: She has written six books, spearheaded the world's first graduate program in branding at New York's prestigious School of Visual Arts, and hosts Design Matters, one of the most popular design podcasts today, for which she has interviewed nearly 500 guests over the past 14 years. Her award-winning and influential work is renowned in the world of design, and she is excited to help others achieve their dreams and define success on their own terms.
UNIQUE APPROACH: This deck, along with its accompanying guidebook and workbook, distills the strategies and techniques more commonly found in intimidating, long-form books and combines them with the utility of a blank goal-setting or productivity journal—giving you both guidance and flexibility and the option to customize for your specific needs and goals.
GREAT GRAD GIFT: Perfect for anyone closing a big chapter in life and embarking on another, The Remarkable Life Deck makes a wonderful gift for a recent graduate. It's the perfect thing to foster a sense of intention when tackling big life decisions, and in helping people realize their ambitions one step at a time.
TESTED TECHNIQUE: Not only has Millman used this tool to help her students identify their own goals and the path to reaching them, but she also credits much of her own success to this tried and tested exercise.
Perfect for: Gift-seeking parents of college students and young adults Graduates and students Ambitious young professionals People at a crossroads, particularly in the wake of "the great resignation" Future presidents, keynote speakers, and CEOs
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