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Design is universal. We all live and work in the built world, and every object, system and environment in the built world has been designed. Clever is a podcast about design. Well, actually,...

In this special program, presented as part of WantedDesign Manhattan Online Conversation Series 2020, we discuss leadership insights, best p...

Branding & design strategist Jessie McGuire was born in El Salvador and adopted by a "wholehearted feminist" single mother. She grew up expl...

People-centered designer Marquise Stillwell spent his youth in Ohio learning to be a good neighbor and going to art museums with his grandfa...

Interior architect Jamie Bush grew up on a Long Island farm with machines, animals and free rein to explore. With farmers and eccentric crea...

Lettering artist Lauren Hom was a super shy and studious child. Her crafty mother would make snacks with her initials cut out of cheese slic...

This rebroadcast is presented as part of WantedDesign Manhattan Online Conversation Series, presented by Clever and Design Milk. Visit wante...

Industrial designer Tom Dixon discovered the transformative power of clay at a young age. Later, after dropping out of art college, he toure...

Legendary art director Giulio Cappellini first fell in love with cars, then studied architecture, and took the family furniture business int...

This rebroadcast is presented as part of WantedDesign Manhattan Online Conversation Series, presented by Clever and Design Milk. Visit wante...

Industrial designer Ayse Birsel grew up thinking she'd become a lawyer until a revelation with a teacup enlightened her to the principles an...

Interior designer and art consultant Elena Frampton grew up in Southern California drawing floor plans and going to open houses. Sensitive a...

In this special Clever extra we teamed up with Paintzen to talk wall power. Walls are the backdrops of all our spaces. They are in the prime...

Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister did not care for engineering in high school. He found designing a poster that would communicate a vibe an...

Industrial designer Catherine Bailey grew up playing with the old school computer punch cards that were the technological accoutrements of n...

These are strange and difficult times. People are feeling anxious, isolated, and frightened. *raises hand* We reached out to friends and fam...

Artist and designer Misha Kahn grew up hustling his lakeshore Minnesotan neighbors with tin foil wrapped baked goods, sewing clothes and han...

Furniture and interior designer Claudia Washington grew up in El Salvador during the civil war. It was not safe for her to play outside so s...

Artist, illustrator & author Lisa Congdon grew up being praised for hard work but not for creativity. She studied history in college, spent...

This special Clever Extra, taped live at RISD as the keynote presentation of Design Week RI, four creative thought leaders come together for...

Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic grew up in Germany, listening to punk rock and dreaming of building boats. In England, he trained in ca...

Design impresario Murray Moss grew up in a house his father engineered with a drinking fountain in the dining room. At 5, he redecorated his...

Graphic designer Paula Scher grew up drawing pictures to escape a turbulent home life. Later, rebelling against suburban existence, she vent...

Happy holidays + new year! We're rebroadcasting a favorite episode from the archives. Enjoy! Experience designer Kristy Tillman was a very s...

Happy holidays + new year! We're rebroadcasting a favorite episode from the archives. Enjoy! Jeansmith and co-founder of Raleigh Denim Works...

Happy holidays + new year! We're rebroadcasting a favorite episode from the archives. Enjoy! Google's Head of Hardware Design, Ivy Ross, lea...

Happy holidays + new year! We're rebroadcasting a favorite episode from the archives. Enjoy! Streetwear designer Bobby Hundreds grew up as a...

Happy holidays + new year! We're rebroadcasting a favorite episode from the archives. Enjoy! Graphic designer, illustrator and lettering art...
Furniture & interior designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance moved from Paris to the "super boring" French countryside in his youth where he spent...

Furniture designer Jeff Martin grew up in Vancouver, BC struggling with punctuation and hiding in a dilapidated abandoned boat. He spent his...
We teamed up with Tarkett for this Clever Extra to unpack the idea that we can consciously impact our wellbeing through design choices. We s...
Interior designer and star of Netfllix's Queer Eye, Bobby Berk grew up in the rural south, feeling like an outsider. Before coming out as ga...

Architect and educator Elena Manferdini grew up in Italy, drawing on any surface she was allowed to, and some she wasn't. After obtaining a...

In this special Clever Extra, we're sharing a rebroadcast of another podcast we produce for Neocon called NeoConversations . What does it ta...

Fashion designer Scott Sternberg just wants to feel it. He grew up in Ohio, watching MTV and living an idyllic-ish childhood with requisite...

Cognitive neuroscientist Sahar Yousef grew up in the Bay Area, the daughter of Iranian immigrants. She became fascinated by human consciousn...

Illustrator Abbey Lossing grew up in the midwest with drawing as a favorite pastime and influence from a grandmother who was a portrait pain...

Strategy and design consultant, Alain Sylvain, was born and raised in New York City, the son of Haitian immigrants. His early creativity inc...

Gregg Buchbinder, Chairman of iconic furniture brand Emeco, grew up in southern California, on a "long leash" and with a constant longing to...

Designer / public servant, Ana Monroe, grew up in the south to radio station-owning liberals who taught her to reject the status quo in favo...

Internationally acclaimed designer Humberto Campana grew up in small-town Brazil and found imaginative freedom in crafts and the local movie...

Digital designer and writer Amélie Lamont is a native New Yorker and daughter of Jamaican immigrants. A self-proclaimed nerd, she grew up re...

Fine artist and designer, Daniel Arsham, grew up in Miami in the mirror image of the house across the street. After graduating from the Coop...

Google's Head of Hardware Design, Ivy Ross, learned from her industrial designer father how to see the world for how it's made, and for the...
Industrial designer Carl Gustav Magnusson, was born in Sweden and grew up on a farm in Canada. Early life was informed by wide open spaces a...

Costume concept artist Gina DeDomenico Flanagan spent the first half of her childhood roller skating around a cul-de-sac and the second half...
Designer, researcher and author Ingrid Fetell Lee spent her childhood traveling back and forth between divorced parents, indulging her curio...

In this special Clever Extra, taped live at a Be Original Americas event in Los Angeles, we conducted 6 lightning round interviews with lead...

Streetwear designer Bobby Hundreds grew up as a minority of a minority, being both Korean-American and into the socal skate punk scene. He l...

Experience designer Kristy Tillman was a very studious child, extremely driven academically. Always on the advanced track, she assumed she w...

Experience designer David Schwarz grew up "seeking weird things to explore, make and build." Fast forward to adulthood and he's still at it....