Design Notes is a podcast about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Google's Liam Spradlin. Each episode we talk... more
This season's special series celebrating ten years since the launch of Material Design closes out with Rich Fulcher, former Google UX... more
This season's special series celebrating ten years since the launch of Material Design continues with Adrian Secord, who describes... more
This season's special series celebrating ten years since the launch of Material Design continues with Software Engineering Manager and... more
This episode is part of a special series celebrating ten years of Material Design. In the episode, Liam speaks with... more
This season begins with a special series celebrating ten years since the launch of Material Design, which will explore the... more
Liam speaks with Googlers Connie Shi, a software engineer on Material Design, and Matvei Malkov, a software engineer on Jetpack... more
Liam and Google Fonts Specialist Dave Crossland explore what digital type can teach us about digital production, emotional expression, and... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with Judith Donath, the founder of MIT’s Sociable Media Lab, inventor of e-cards, and author... more
Liam speaks with Aline Borges, a Zürich-based floral designer who’s made the leap from fashion coordination for magazines like Vogue... more
In this episode, we revisit a conversation from Season 1 with new media artist Harvey Moon, recorded in his San... more
Liam speaks with streetscape and public space designer Ignacio Ciocchini, who’s created much of the public furniture that New Yorkers... more
In this episode, we revisit a conversation from Season 1 with Kerry Murphy, co-founder of digital fashion house The Fabricant.... more
Liam speaks to Tom Boellstorff, Anthropologist and UCI Professor, whose ethnographic work in Second Life (documented in his book, Coming... more
It's been a while, but Design Notes is coming back for Season 2 uncovering even more of what inspires and... more
In this episode, part of San Francisco Design Week's Digital Edition, Liam speaks with Julian Zigerli, a designer in Zürich,... more
This episode is part of a special series of three interviews, recorded remotely with the winners of the 2020 Material... more
This episode is part of a special series of three interviews, recorded remotely with the winners of the 2020 Material... more
This episode is part of a special series of three interviews, recorded remotely with the winners of the 2020 Material... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with BJ Best, a poet who teaches computers to do what humans can’t in the... more
Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us. In this episode, Liam speaks with illustrator,... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with Kerry Murphy, co-founder of digital fashion house The Fabricant, to learn how ones and... more
Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us. For the first episode of 2020, Liam... more
This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year’s Material Design Awards,... more
This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year’s Material Design Awards,... more
This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year’s Material Design Awards,... more
This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year’s Material Design Awards,... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with Bradley Munkowitz, also known as designer/director GMUNK, unpacking Munkowitz’s scintillating psychedelic aesthetic — inspired... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with interdisciplinary artist and creative coder Qianqian Ye in her San Francisco studio. The duo... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with new media artist Harvey Moon in his San Francisco studio. The duo discuss how... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with Conor Grebel about how lived experiences inform and are conveyed through creative work.Our conversation... more
In this episode, Liam speaks with Kerry Murphy, co-founder of digital fashion house The Fabricant, to learn how ones and zeros are... more