DesignThinkers Podcast

About DesignThinkers Podcast

From the Association of Registered Graphic Designers, this is the DesignThinkers podcast. DesignThinkers (https://site.pheedloop.com/event/dtvan25/home) is Canada's largest graphic design conference. Since the year 2000, the Association of Registered Graphic Designers has been bringing together visionaries from a range of disciplines to explore creativity and the design process live and on-stage. This podcast is an extension of that mission. We’re here to talk about process, creativity and the business of design with past and present DesignThinkers speakers. Join our host, Nicola Hamilton (https://www.instagram.com/nickydearest), for candid conversation with creative legends such as Erin Sarofsky, Michael Beirut, Paul Scher, Gail Anderson, Meg Lewis, Christopher Doyle, and so many more. Follow us on Instagram @rgdcanada (https://www.instagram.com/rgdcanada/?hl=en) or visit us online at rgd.ca (https://rgd.ca/). Purchase tickets to the upcoming DesignThinkers conference at designthinkers.com (http://designthinkers.com/).

Publisher

The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD)

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

22 Apr 2024

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

73 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Erika Barbieri on Tasty Packaging Design

   Erika Barbieri is the co-founder and creative director of OlssønBarbieri, a design studio in Oslo. The studio's ethos is built almost entirely around one idea: that packaging can be a portal into much bigger conversations about food. She and her partner Henrik met in design school in Florence, moved to Oslo in 2005, and spent years finding their footing before officially committing to the studio in 2012. In this episode, Erika talks about how for her, good packaging design lives at the inters...

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Goldie Chan on Personal Branding for Introverts

   Goldie Chan is the author of Personal Branding for Introverts, the founder of the social strategy agency Warm Robots, and the Huffington Post once called her the "Oprah of LinkedIn." She built that reputation kind of by accident. She started posting a daily video on LinkedIn as a way to push her introverted self to speak on camera. She then went on to post 800 consecutive daily videos between 2017 and 2019, long before AI made that kind of output easy. In this conversation, Goldie takes us ba...

3. 

   2 Sept 2026

   Gabby Lord & Lauren Wong on Being Delusional Enough to Start a Company

   Five years ago, Gabby Lord and Lauren Wong started a design studio because a friend joked that they should—and because Gabby was, by her own admission, extremely burnt out and looking for a way out of her work situation. Those aren't good reasons to start a company, and yet SUPER KEEN is succeeding by most metrics. They complete 20 to 35 projects a year, have found a work-life balance that works for them, and have built a reputation for delivering solid design and strategy work. In thi...

Who has been a guest on DesignThinkers Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ariane Spanier
• Dr Dee Miller
• Dee Miller
• Peter Smart
• Nu Goteh

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

15 ratings

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Books guests

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