My Life In Design Podcast
How did some of the some of the world’s best designers, strategists, and agency leads, get into design? How did they know it was even a thing they could form a career around? I’m Claire Blyth, founder of design focussed PR agency Red Setter. I’ll be speaking to some of my favourite people in design to talk about how they got where they are today.
Episodes
50 episodes since 2022
Mauro Porcini, Senior VP and Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo.
In the final episode of the series, Claire sits down with Mauro Porcini, Senior VP and Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo.Mauro shares his journey of how he discovered design as a career, and how he arrived at PepsiCo with an ambition to re...
May 09, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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1:00:21
Ekaterina Solomeina, co-founder of Future London Academy.
This week, Claire sits down with Ekaterina Solomeina, co-founder of Future London Academy. Ekaterina shares her life in design from Russia to London, from agency to in-house. She shares her discovery of design as a career through early experien...
May 02, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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50:06
Alex Moulton - Chief Creative Officer at Trollbäck+Company
This week on Claire sits down with Alex Moulton, chief creative officer at Trollbäck+Company in NYC. Alex shares his life in design, from filmmaking and sonic branding, to full brand experience.Links:
April 25, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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48:28
Alex Center - Founder of CENTER.
This week Claire sits down with Alex Center, founder of design agency CENTER. Alex shares his life in design, from a dream internship working on the New York Knicks, to his time at the Coca-Cola Company building iconic drinks brands like vitami...
April 18, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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46:17
Joshua Breidenbach - Co-Founder of Rice
This week Claire chats with Joshua Breidenbach, from Vietnam’s Rice. Joshua shares his life in design, from early family influences, to the messages of punk music, and a pivotal project with Coca-Cola that marked the official founding of Ri...
April 11, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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45:52
Joy Nazzari - Founder of DNCO
This week on ‘My Life in Design’ Claire catches up with Joy Nazzari of DNCO to discuss her life in design, and her unusual route into the industry from a start in tech investment banking. Joy shares stories from her child...
April 03, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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56:37
Hamish Campbell, VP Executive Creative Director of Pearlfisher NYC.
This week Claire chats with Hamish Campbell, VP executive creative director of Pearlfisher NYC. Hamish recounts his life in design and how a love for art evolved into a career in graphic design, blending the precision of engineering with the cr...
March 28, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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38:47
Kerry Bolt and Shaun Bowen - co-founders of B&B studio
This week Claire chats with Kerry and Shaun, co-founders of B&B Studio, about their journeys into design and the founding of their award-winning studio. They share insights into their first client, Bear, which went on to win the DBA Grand P...
March 21, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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56:03
Emily Rickard, CEO of BUCK
This week Claire meets up with Emily Rickard, CEO of BUCK. Emily talks about her career journey, from filmmaking aspirations to fashion journalism and TV production in Australia, to leading a global creative powerhouse that is BUCK....
March 14, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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35:32
Mary Lewis, Creative Director of Lewis Moberly.
In the first episode of the new series, Claire meets up with design legend Mary Lewis, creative director of Lewis Moberly. Mary talks about her early years living on a farm and her fascination with branded goods. Going to art college and then m...
March 07, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:16:12
Dines - Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Studio BLUP
In the final episode of the series episode, Claire meets up with digital artist Dines, co-founder and chief creative officer of Studio BLUP. He shares his journey from discovering his passion for design at a young age to establishing a successf...
December 14, 2023
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Episode 10
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54:59
Marina Willer - partner at Pentagram
This week Claire meets up with Marina Willer, partner at Pentagram. Marina talks about growing up in a creative house in Brazil and being influenced by the politics and injustice there at the time. She talks about moving to the UK to study at t...
December 07, 2023
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Episode 9
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41:49
Cat How, Founder & ECD of How & How.
This week Claire meets up with Cat How, Founder & ECD of branding agency How & How. Cat talks about her route into design through journalism, ecommerce, and shared office spaces. She discusses her experience at Central St Martins studyi...
November 30, 2023
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Episode 8
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39:36
Rejane Dal Bello of Studio Rejane Dal Bello.
This week Claire meets up with Rejane Dal Bello. Rejane talks about how she thought she’d be a dentist as a child but found a love of art on an exchange year in the US. She talks about her time at NYC’s School of Visual Arts being taught by Mil...
November 23, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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43:43
Stefan Sagmeister - Design Hero
This week Claire meets up with a personal design hero of hers – Stefan Sagmeister. Stefan talks about his experiences of working with Lou Reed and The Rolling Stones, On the importance of finding something in your life that you’re good at, and ...
November 16, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:02:24
Alan Dye and Nick Finney, founders of NB Studio
This week Claire meets up with Alan Dye and Nick Finney, founders of NB Studio. They talk about their ‘apprenticeship’ at Pentagram and how they founded NB Studio in the pub next door! Some great tips for young designers too.Links:<...
November 09, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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47:43
Sean Thomas, Executive Creative Director of JKR
This week Claire meets up with Sean Thomas, Executive Creative Director of JKR. Sean talks about how art was his sanctuary at school, his first roles in agencies Pearlfisher and The Core, through freelance and to JKR. Links:
November 02, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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52:35
Robert Brunner - founder of Ammunition & Dr Dre’s collaborator & product designer on Beats
This week Claire meets up with Robert Brunner, the product and brand designer who set up Apple’s first industrial design department, designed the first PowerBook, and went on to design the product and brand of Beats with Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine...
October 26, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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54:03
Rowena Curlewis and Margaret Nolan of Denomination
This week Claire meets up with Rowena Curlewis and Margaret Nolan of the drinks specialist agency - Denomination. Row & Margaret talk about early beginnings at Lewis Moberly, on the importance of getting the culture right when you s...
October 19, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:00:35
Jim Sutherland of Studio Sutherl&
We kick off the fourth series of My Life in Design with Jim Sutherland. Jim founded the multi-award winning Studio Sutherl&, and is visiting professor at Norwich University of the Arts. Jim talks about how he got started in design, overcomi...
October 12, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:01:25
Brian Collins – Co-founder of COLLINS
This week, in the final episode of series 3, Claire meets up with Brian Collins, designer, creative director, educator, and co-founder of design firm COLLINS - named by Forbes as one of the companies transforming the future of brand building. B...
August 03, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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47:46
Caspar Lam and YuJune Park, Founders of Synoptic Office
This week, Claire speaks to Caspar Lam and YuJune Park, Founders of the award-winning Synoptic Office and Professors in Communication Design at the Parsons School of Design, NY. Caspar and YuJune talk about their discovery of design and their s...
July 27, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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54:36
David Johnston - Founder of Accept & Proceed
This week Claire meets up with David Johnston, founder of Accept & Proceed, exploring his design journey, from discovering graphic design and his art school experience, to entering the design industry at a time in the nineties when graphic ...
July 20, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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48:11
Paula Scher - Pentagram partner & design genius
This week Claire meets up with the rather fantastic Paula Scher. Paula shares her design journey from discovering graphic design, her art school experience, and landing her first job. She discusses her early career as art director in the 1970s ...
July 13, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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40:38
Craig Black - Visual Artist
This week Claire met up with visual artist Craig Black. Craig shares his rise from footballer to typographer to visual artist and performing his ‘Acrylic Fusion’ technique in front of some of the world’s greatest footballers at the FIFA World C...
July 06, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:03:03