In times of Corona, lockdowns and contact restrictions, people withdraw to the home office and to the recording studio, one might say. Because this year many new design podcasts were created. I would like to present some interesting offers here.
Since the launch of the communication design podcast formfunk (2015) and the greyscale podcast (2018), a lot has happened in the podcast scene. While design conferences, symposiums and panel discussions have been canceled or postponed indefinitely, the subscription to German audio offerings in the field of design has grown significantly.
Even if the digital can only insufficiently replace personal exchange, the podcast medium seems to fill the vacuum that has arisen in the course of the corona-related cancellations and closings in terms of knowledge and experience exchange and communication. This post has tons of design on the ear and podcast recommendations for those interested in design.
Britta Klingberg, attorney at the Hamburg law firm Fechner, specializes in all areas of law that have to do with intellectual property. The green thread deals with current, informative and personal issues from the interface between law and creation. For the people in front of and behind brands & designs, advertising & communication.
The interviewees for the currently 8 episodes (with a focus on Hamburg personalities and brand makers) include Norbert Möller, Executive Creative Director of the Peter Schmidt Group, Dr. Christian von Boetticher, managing director of Peter Kölln and, in one episode, Frances Uckermann, director of designxport and Yolanda von Zitzewitz from the project “ReDo“.
DDCAST – What is good? Design, communication, architecture
“DDCast” is a podcast of the German Designer Club founded in summer 2020, which was conceived in cooperation with the cluster of the creative industries. The DDC presents a strong voice every week. She comes from all areas of design, from related disciplines, from science, business and politics.
Right now, according to the makers Rainer Gehrisch, Prof. Georg-Christof Bertsch and Nicolas Markwald, creativity and a rethinking of design are more in demand than ever. What’s going on? What is coming and what can we do better? Interlocutors include Uli Mayer-Johanssen (co-founder of MetaDesign), Prof. Annette Bertsch (product design department at the Kassel Art College), Sebastian Herkner (product designer) and many others.
ndion – The podcast on design, brands and innovation
Journalist and TV presenter Jörg Thadeusz interviews personalities and makers from the world of brand communication and design. Up-to-date, informative and on the pulse of the industry. With relevant topics that concern everyone – such as digital change, sustainability and advancing globalization.
Interview partners include font designer and designer Erik Spiekermann, product designer Hartmut Esslinger and Judith Borowski, brand manager of the watch manufacturer NOMOS. The podcast is published by the German Design Council.
form – Designmagazin
The form Design Podcast has set itself the task of describing what design actually is. The two form editors-in-chief Anton Rahlwes and Nina Sieverding are talking to design experts from different areas.
Guests in the first episodes are Uta Brandes, author, design consultant and expert on gender and design, Andreas Koop, designer and author (“NSCI”) and type designer and artist Charlotte Rohde.
WITHOUT THE HYPE – interviews with creative people
Sven Jürgensmeier’s fascination and interest in art, design and communication drives him to exchange ideas with other creative professionals and tell their personal stories.
Illustrators, designers, painters, photographers, tattoo artists and architects have their say. In addition to the audio podcast, all new interviews will also appear as a video podcast on YouTube.
Hurray Hurray – a design podcast from BURG
The first podcast of the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle specifically on current position determinations and questions in design.
Christian Zöllner, Professor of Design Methods and Experiment at the BURG, speaks regularly in the podcast episodes with designers, scientists and artists on current topics, discourses and debates in design. How do we want to work and live as designers? What tasks do we want and have to take on in the future? What do we need for that? And: What role can design studies play in finding answers to these questions?
Brace UX Design – designing experiences
In the “Brace UX Design” podcast, the two “hosts” Joschi and Marian dive into the world of UX design and provide an insight into methodologies, design principles, areas of application, products and tools.
Relevant podcast with a wide range of UX / UI topics, including usability, prototyping, heuristics, the interaction of development and design and many more.
No beautiful things – Design Podcast
Marvin Loschelders and Jonas Diefenbach, the two hosts of the podcast, do not make beautiful things because they make design, according to their credo.
Also founded in the Corona year 2020, the two of them repeatedly talk to guests in their episodes, for example about social distancing in design, about studying and studying, about collaborations in design and about the fact that design is more than the design of surfaces.
Design Thinking Podcast
Complex problems can only be solved together – the management consultants Ingrid Gerstbach and Peter Gerstbach, who have been publishing a podcast on design thinking since 2016, are convinced.
The podcast aims to empower listeners in their creativity and encourage them to question the way they work. “Design Thinking” as a holistic innovation method with which one’s own creativity can be strengthened and problems can be solved. The two Gerstbachs provide ideas and tools to help make change happen.
Right for designers
In times of the corona pandemic, lectures, seminars, exercises and tutorials are often carried out purely digitally. This is also the case with the “Law for Designers” course, which was held at the Münster School of Design (MSD) in the 2020 summer semester by Jan Kalbhenn and Maximilian Hemmert-Halswick.
All audio course content on the topics of basics, contract law, data protection, media and copyright law was made available on Spotify. The associated slides and presentations (Docs & PDF) were also published on a website.
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You can’t find your personal favorite podcast? There is space in the comments for other podcast offers worth listening to.
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