Now Playing: Podcasts for Design Minds
I spend a lot of time driving in my car for work. Commutes can be brutally frustrating so often I need something to keep me entertained. Here’s a few podcasts that keep me inspired on the go.
1. KCRW’s Design and Architecture (DNA)
This is probably the most informative and comprehensive 30 minutes on my IPod. Frances Anderton, who is also the L.A. editor for Dwell Magazine, has covered subjects modern design, the environment and sustainability, as well as branding and product design mostly with an L.A. spin. It’s helps me remember that I always have more to learn, when it comes to design.
On a biweekly schedule interior designers and bloggers, Linda Merrill of Surroundings, Joni Webb of Cote de Texas and Megan Arquette of Beach Bungalow 8 host a podcast that has featured, interior designers, authors and other industry insiders. It’s entertaining and informative and they seem to be a pretty good team. Also, It’s wonderful to get inside information and inspiration from designers and editors that I may not have the opportunity to talk to otherwise. And, being a designer and blogger myself, they definitely touch on topics close to my heart.
Like DNA this is actually a radio show. While this podcast is not about design, I feel that in many ways it is about the concept of home. Bringing everything back to the dining table, author and host Lynne Rosetto Kasper touches on subjects that cover the emotional connection with how we nurture ourselves. Kasper has spoken with authors, historians, interior designers, poets, journalists and restaurateurs to seamlessly weave a show that is humorous, heartfelt and touching. Because food memories have played such an important part of my life, I can’t help but think of family and home whenever I listen. It also helps me remember that we want clients to build new beautiful memories in the homes we design during the workday.
There are a few more that I listen to on the road. I think I may need a Part 2 to cover the ones that I listen to that no longer broadcast but,I think this is a good start. Aside from music, what do you listen to on your commute?































