My Life In Design Podcast

Claire Blyth
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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.

  1. Vuokko Aro - Chief Design Officer at Monzo

    5 DAYS AGO

    Vuokko Aro - Chief Design Officer at Monzo

    This week Claire caught up with Vuokko Aro, the Chief Design Officer at Monzo. She helps the bank’s leadership team use design as a strategic lever across the company as it scales. This all helped Monzo win Marketing Society brand of the year in 2024. Vuokko discusses her unconventional path into her current career, from studying economics to working in journalism and eventually transitioning into design. She talks about her experience of working with startups like Citymapper before joi...

    54 min
  2. Kwame Taylor-Hayford - Co-Founder of Kin & D&AD President

    20 MAR

    Kwame Taylor-Hayford - Co-Founder of Kin & D&AD President

    In the first of a new season, Claire sat down with Kwame in front of a live audience in New York to share his life in design… so far. Kwame is the first US D&AD President, and also the co-founder of Kin, a creative company that drives positive change in business and culture. He shares his early influences in design and talks about his transition from working in finance to discovering the world of design. Kwame talks about his role at D&AD in New York and some of the brilliant in...

    37 min
  3. Henry Steiner, Founder of Steiner&Co

    21/11/2024

    Henry Steiner, Founder of Steiner&Co

    In the final episode of this series, Claire has the honour of speaking to Henry Steiner, founder of Steiner&Co, also known as the ‘Father of Hong Kong Graphic Design. Fresh from being the subject of a recent exhibition at the M+ gallery in Hong Kong, 90-year-old Henry shares his long and insightful journey in design, starting with being awe-struck by a piece of packaging design when he was only 3 years old! He shares his formative years, from leaving his birth country of Austria under the...

    29 min

  4. 14/11/2024

    Benji Wiedemann and Alex Lampe - Co-Founders of Wiedemann Lampe.

    This week Claire meets up with Benji Wiedemann and Alex Lampe, who co-founded the design agency Wiedemann Lampe. They share their lives in design and the evolution of their studio working in the cultural space and the skill of being able to articulate intangible things. They share their share the impact of starting their careers in the dot.com boom era of the early noughties… and the following crash. The huge influence of working and learning at iconic design agency Lewis Moberly, under the ...

    1h 2m
  5. Julia Beardwood - Founder of Beardwood&Co

    07/11/2024

    Julia Beardwood - Founder of Beardwood&Co

    This week Claire sat down with Julia Beardwood, founder of New York agency Beardwood&Co, to hear her unconventional journey into design, via mathematics and marketing, to advertising, then the switch to branding at Landor. She shares the secrets behind her transition into the world of brand design (and her move to New York from the UK via Paris) The importance of honesty and direct communication in client relationships and talks about the leap into entrepreneurship by setting up her own a...

    47 min
  6. Dick Powell - Co-Founder of Seymour Powell

    31/10/2024

    Dick Powell - Co-Founder of Seymour Powell

    This week on the podcast Claire sat down with Dick Powell, co-founder of product design and innovation agency Seymour Powell, to talk all things design. Dick talks about everything from design education to founding a business, working on designs for spaceships, and what ‘brand’ actually means to him. He shares his early interest in design and its evolution from architecture to industrial design, reflections on the current state and evolution of the design industry, and in-house design trends....

    45 min
  7. Fe Amarante - Founder and Principal of Experimenta

    24/10/2024

    Fe Amarante - Founder and Principal of Experimenta

    This week Claire meets up with Fe Amarante founder and principal of Experimenta, whose career spans major companies like Coca-Cola, Danone, and The Hershey Company. Now running her own agency, Experimenta, focusing on sustainable creativity, she shared her life in design so far. Fe talks about the evolving perception of in-house creative roles and their potential for fulfilment, the thinking and ethos behind her agency Experimenta, and her thoughts on being terrified and doing it anyway! Li...

    43 min
  8. Ian Ritchie - Designer & Co-Founder JKR

    17/10/2024

    Ian Ritchie - Designer & Co-Founder JKR

    This week Claire meets up with design legend Ian Ritchie to talk about his life in design, from his early experiences of earning his way with signwriting, to art school and the evolution and growth of design agency JKR. Ian shares his story of JKR, from co-founding, to the challenges and the big decisions made to enable success. He talks about the relationship between design and advertising and the need for cross-disciplinary talent, and gives insights into what he’s doing post-JRK, inc...

    1h 5m
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    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.

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    • Creator
      Claire Blyth
    • Years Active
      2022 - 2025
    • Episodes
      62
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      Explicit
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      © 2025 My Life In Design Podcast
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