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Episode 18: Tea Sticklers and Coffee Impressionists
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 29 MB, 61 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically Aly and Beth Khalifa have decades of experience in product design, both as consultants for clients and in making their own stuff. The Teastick was the first… Continue reading Episode 18: Tea Sticklers and Coffee Impressionists
Episode 17: Everything in Moderation with Craig Mod (part 1)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 29 MB, 59 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Craig Mod writes essays that have the power to change the way you look at everything around you. At regular but somewhat distant intervals, he posts a… Continue reading Episode 17: Everything in Moderation with Craig Mod (part 1)
Episode 16: Baby Got Back Catalog with Jonathan Coulton
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 38 MB, 80 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Jonathan Coulton hascalled into existence a world in which a bearded Brooklyn-residing,Yale-graduated, Whiffenpoof-participating programmer singing songs onnerdy topics he records in a home studio posted to the… Continue reading Episode 16: Baby Got Back Catalog with Jonathan Coulton
Episode 15: Serial Artistry with Zach Weinersmith
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 34 MB, 71 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Zach Weinersmith, the artist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal,takes nerdy Web comics to their logical extreme, and has developed ahuge following among science geeks. We talk about… Continue reading Episode 15: Serial Artistry with Zach Weinersmith
Episode 14: No Kind of Work for a Grown Man with John Gruber
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 50 MB, 1 hour, 43 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. John Gruber is either the world’s biggest Apple fanboy or the mostnuanced explicator of Cupertino’s smoke signals, depending on whom youask and on what day.… Continue reading Episode 14: No Kind of Work for a Grown Man with John Gruber
Episode 13: No-Host Bar Dot Net with Dalton Caldwell
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 41 MB, 84 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Dalton Caldwell is the head of App.net(sometimes called ADN for App Dot Net), which some think is a Twittercompetitor, but it isn’t quite. It seems to be… Continue reading Episode 13: No-Host Bar Dot Net with Dalton Caldwell
Episode 12: Où est la plume de ma Kickstarter? with Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 23 MB, 48 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang run CW&T,an art and design studio that produces an array of items ranging frompurely commercial to completely aesthetic. The way they string… Continue reading Episode 12: Où est la plume de ma Kickstarter? with Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang
Episode 11: Expose Yourself to Art with Jesse Genet and Stéphan Angoulvant
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 26 MB, 53 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Lumi makes a fabric-dye that becomes permanent when exposed to bright full-spectrum light, as from the sun. But that’s not why the founders, Jesse Genet and Stéphan… Continue reading Episode 11: Expose Yourself to Art with Jesse Genet and Stéphan Angoulvant
Episode 10: Go Home at 5 O’Clock with Jason Fried
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 24 MB, 49 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Jason Fried co-founded 37signals, a Web design company that found one of its internal tools for managing projects could be something effectively used by others. Millions of… Continue reading Episode 10: Go Home at 5 O’Clock with Jason Fried