Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Renowned portrait photographer Platon and acclaimed designer, editor, and filmmaker Scott Dadich have spent more than 25 years collaborating to create some of the most compelling imagery in contemporary culture. Part one of their conversation focuses on Platon's journey from a childhood in Greece to photographing some of the world's most powerful figures and the human stories behind his portraits.

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Acclaimed costume designer Debra McGuire has helped shape some of television and film's most iconic looks, from Friends and The Morning Show to Anchorman and Idiocracy. She joins to discuss her remarkable journey through art, fashion, and Hollywood, the creative collaborations that shaped her career, and her new book, Dressing the Story.

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Craig Elimeliah—Chief Creative Officer of the global creative and technology agency Code and Theory—is a creative leader whose work has pushed the boundaries of design, technology, advertising, and culture. He joins to discuss his unconventional path into design, the early days of the internet, and how artificial intelligence is reshaping creativity, authorship, and the future of design.

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Françoise Mouly—legendary longtime art editor of The New Yorker and co-founder of the groundbreaking comics magazine RAW—has helped transform the possibilities of comics, illustration, and visual storytelling. She joins to discuss her career shaping more than three decades of New Yorker covers, why the future of art still depends on human curiosity and lived experience, and her new book, The New Yorker: From Cover to Cover.

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Ada Limón—24th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of seven poetry books, including The Carrying and Bright Dead Things—joins to discuss her new book, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, her childhood between two homes, her deep sensitivity to the natural world, and how poetry became a way to make sense of life’s strangeness, loss, and love.

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