Design Bytes, Episode 4: Three Brains – Creative. Client. Reality.

In this episode of Design Bytes, we host a discussion with award-winning industrial designer and educator Matt Johnson about approaching creativity, handling clients, and bringing ideas to reality within a budget. Hosted by Megan Cary and Paige Garland. 

About our guest:
Matt Johnson graduated from Pratt Institute with a Master of Industrial Design and has more than twenty years of industry experience working with clients including Target, Cynthia Rowley, Estee Lauder, General Motors, Unilever, and Pfizer. He is a former faculty and Program Coordinator of Industrial Design at the Michael Graves College of Architecture & Design, Kean University in Union, NJ. He’s currently based in Fairhope, Alabama where he co-owns, ALJ Interiors with his wife, interior designer Annie Johnson.

Resources:

http://www.mobile.aiga.org

Books
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design – By IDEO.org
Sketching by Koos Eissen

Podcasts
Master’s of Scale by Reid Hoffman – Falling off a cliff and building a plane on the way down.
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Business Wars from Wondery
Twenty Thousand Hertz – Dallas Taylor

Other
Love Hulten – Swedish, traditional craftsmanship with modern tech.