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Print Magazine publishes article and illustrations by Debbie in August issue

I wrote and illustrated an article in the August 2010 issue of Print Magazine on design leadership! The full piece can be found here.

POSTED ON Jul.28.2010 IN News

Sean Adams interviews Debbie on Felt & Wire

The always dapper Sean Adams recently interviewed Debbie for his fabulous column on the site Felt & Wire. The interview can be found here.

POSTED ON Mar.08.2010 IN News

MICA Student Designer Ilene Lundy creates LBW homage

Ilene Lundy is a lovely young student from MICA in Baltimore. She created this illustration for an assignment in her senior class. Thank you Ilene!

POSTED ON Feb.24.2010 IN News

Interview about LBW and more on Design:Related

The very very lovely folks at Thought And Theory interviewed me at University of Florida’s Ligature 19 and the fabulous people at Design:Related have published the video here.

POSTED ON Feb.17.2010 IN News

Felt & Wire features my Significant Object

Felt & Wire, the fabulous new Mohawk website is “about the universe of design, paper and print — from posters to packaging, from memorable mail to beautiful books, from invitations to artistic innovations. Felt & Wire reveals the fascinations, avocations and professions of the people who inhabit this continually expanding and evolving universe. It is a community, by and about those of us who are paper-obsessed.” Very happily they gave a very kind shout out to my handwritten love letter, Dear Susan, which was recently included in Rob Walker’s Significant Object project.

POSTED ON Feb.17.2010 IN News

A Visual Story About A Significant Object

I am thrilled to announce that New York Times Columnist (and author of one of my favorite books on branding) Rob Walker invited me to join him and project partner Joshua Glenn to participate in their Significant Objects project. Paraphrased from their website, the task is as follows: invite a writer to invent a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to their hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. They decided to test their theory on eBay.

Rob and Joshua purchase objects — for no more than a few dollars — from thrift stores and garage sales. A writer is paired with an object. THey then write a fictional story, in any style or voice, about the object. And then suddenly, an rather unremarkable trinket is transformed into a significant object.

Each significant object is then listed for sale on eBay. The s.o. is pictured, but instead of a factual description the s.o.’s newly written fictional story is used. The winning bidder is mailed the significant object, along with a printout of the object’s fictional story. Net proceeds from the sale have been donated to 826 National and as of today, over $1,290 has been contributed to date.

You can see my object here, and you can bid on it here!

POSTED ON Jan.30.2010 IN News

Print Magazine features video on “making of” LBW

Emily Gordon, former Editor-in-chief of Print Magazine, interviews Rodrigo Corral and Debbie Millman about the making of Look Both Ways. Filmed by Karl Conrad and edited by Jurgen Miller.

Video can be viewed here!