Debbie Millman

Debbie Millman is an American writer, educator, artist, curator and designer who is best known as the host of the podcast Design Matters. 2Career 3Sterling Brands From 1995 to 2016 Millman was the President of the Design Division, and Chief Marketing Officer at Sterling Brands based in New York City, where she worked with many of the world’s largest brands, such as Pepsi, Gillette, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, Nestlé, and Campbells including the redesign of Burger King, merchandising for Star Wars and the positioning and branding of the NO MORE movement. 3HOT 97 From 1993-2005 Millman was the off-staff creative director of HOT 97 in New York City, where she worked with Emmis Broadcasting General Manager Judy Ellis and Promotion Director Rocco Macri to transform the dance music radio station into the world’s first hip-hop radio station. Millman created the HOT 97 logo in 1994 and then redesigned it again in 1999, which is still the logo today. 3Design Matters In 2005, Millman founded Design Matters, a design podcast that now has over 300 interviews with design leaders, educators, authors and thinkers including Massimo Vignelli, Steven Heller, Marian Bantjes, Tina Roth Eisenberg, and Stefan Sagmeister, Milton Glaser, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Barbara Kruger, Seth Godin and more. By mid 2017, 12 years since its inception the show has passed the five million downloads per year mark. The podcast received a number of awards such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and in 2015 iTunes named it one of the best podcasts of the year. 3School of Visual Arts In 2009 Millman and Steven Heller founded the world’s first graduate program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The school's inaugural class wrote and designed the Rockport book Brand Bible: The Complete Guide to Building, Designing and Sustaining Brands, and in 2013 the students designed and created branding for the Museum of Modern Art’s retail program, Destination: New York. In 2015 their project was to reposition the Kappa Middle School in Harlem and in 2016 they rebranded Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation and the class of 2017 redesigned the identity of the Performance Space 122 in New York Cit