Jonathan Jackson, Creative Director at We Should Do It All, and design student Avalon Garrick talk about the joys and challenges of finding their footing as creatives, the experience of being the only Black person in the room, and how the design field can be made more diverse.

Gaining knowledge is a crucial, ongoing part of every designer’s career. In this episode, Pentagram partner Eddie Opara, mentor to student Tyriq Moore, talks with him about how learning and discovering new things is at the heart of being a good designer.

Debbie talks to Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney about her new book on women entrepreneurs and makers and about the necessity and difficulty of change.

Campaign fatigue, advertising and viral video, voting technology, intellectualism in the design community, the art of David Pease, the 1986 Mets

Bathroom signs, MBA students, Mozilla and open logo design, The Commissar Vanishes, Masters of Sex

The Napalm Girl photo on Facebook, 9/11 out of context, Apple stores and the iPhone 7 launch, the Doctor Strangelove trailer, Wiener-Dog, Pantsuit

Samsung v. Apple, the International Style v. capitalism, Sausage Party, mozzarella sticks

Olympics, cursive handwriting, NASA’s secret art studio, gun sales on Facebook, #firstsevenjobs

Trump-Pence, Clinton-Kaine, Black Lives Matter, The Four Seasons, mapping the brain, the video essay

Brexit, borders, naming, Fiorello La Guardia and his airport, robot dogs, though leadership, Snapfax