Design Matters with Debbie Millman
by Design Matters Media
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Debra McGuire
Oct 19, 2026
1h 17m 34s
Craig Elimeliah
Oct 12, 2026
59m 24s
Françoise Mouly
Oct 5, 2026
1h 14m 52s
Best of Design Matters: Ada Limón
Sep 28, 2026
1h 11m 03s
Best of Design Matters: Kim Hastreiter
Sep 21, 2026
1h 17m 56s
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- 🇺🇸United States · DesignHOME#32.0M to 10M
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Design#585K to 451K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Design#467K to 357K
- 🇮🇩ID · Design#165K to 345K
- 🇩🇪Germany · Design#561K to 322K
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2.6M to 14M🎙 ~2x weekly·689 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
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5.1M to 27M🇺🇸76%🇬🇧3%🇨🇦3%+8 more - Active Followers
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2.8M to 15M
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/19/26 |  Debra McGuire | Acclaimed costume designer Debra McGuire has helped shape some of television and film's most iconic looks, from Friends and The Morning Show to Anchorman and Idiocracy. She joins to discuss her remarkable journey through art, fashion, and Hollywood, the creative collaborations that shaped her career, and her new book, Dressing the Story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 17m 34s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 |  Craig Elimeliah | Craig Elimeliah—Chief Creative Officer of the global creative and technology agency Code and Theory—is a creative leader whose work has pushed the boundaries of design, technology, advertising, and culture. He joins to discuss his unconventional path into design, the early days of the internet, and how artificial intelligence is reshaping creativity, authorship, and the future of design. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 59m 24s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  Françoise Mouly | Françoise Mouly—legendary longtime art editor of The New Yorker and co-founder of the groundbreaking comics magazine RAW—has helped transform the possibilities of comics, illustration, and visual storytelling. She joins to discuss her career shaping more than three decades of New Yorker covers, why the future of art still depends on human curiosity and lived experience, and her new book, The New Yorker: From Cover to Cover. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 14m 52s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 |  Best of Design Matters: Ada Limón | Ada Limón—24th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of seven poetry books, including The Carrying and Bright Dead Things—joins to discuss her new book, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, her childhood between two homes, her deep sensitivity to the natural world, and how poetry became a way to make sense of life’s strangeness, loss, and love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 11m 03s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 |  Best of Design Matters: Kim Hastreiter | Kim Hastreiter—co-founder and longtime editor of Paper magazine—joins to reflect on a life at the center of downtown New York’s art, fashion, and nightlife, from scrappy newsprint beginnings to the cover that “broke the internet.” She also discusses her memoir, Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos, and why artists must document culture before it’s rewritten. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 17m 56s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 |  Best of Design Matters: Lidia Yuknavitch | Lidia Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of The Chronology of Water, Reading the Waves, and The Big M, and a writer whose work blurs genre to explore themes of memory, embodiment, grief, and transformation. She joins to discuss her childhood, her early life as a competitive swimmer, the film adaptation of The Chronology of Water directed by Kristen Stewart, and how storytelling can reshape the narratives we carry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 20m 52s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 | feminismjournalism+3 | Gloria Steinem | New York TimesDesign Matters Media+1 | — | Gloria Steinemfeminism+5 | — | 1h 14m 03s | ||
| 8/31/26 | philosophygames+4 | C. Thi Nguyen | Design Matters MediaGames: Agency as Art+1 | — | C. Thi Nguyengames+5 | — | 1h 11m 09s | ||
| 8/24/26 | musicstorytelling+4 | Suzanne Vega | Design Matters MediaLuka+2 | — | Suzanne Vegamusic+6 | — | 1h 01m 25s | ||
| 8/17/26 | journalismscience+3 | Lulu Miller | RadiolabTerrestrials+1 | — | Lulu Millerjournalism+3 | — | 1h 22m 16s | ||
| 8/10/26 | card gamesstorytelling+3 | Tim Ferriss | CoyoteDesign Matters Media | — | Tim FerrissDesign Matters+5 | — | 1h 24m 44s | ||
| 8/3/26 | playwritingidentity+4 | Quiara Alegría Hudes | Design Matters MediaIn the Heights+2 | — | Pulitzer Prizeplaywright+6 | — | 1h 01m 50s | ||
| 7/27/26 | artificial intelligencesocial implications+3 | Dr. Joy Buolamwini | Algorithmic Justice LeagueAcast+2 | — | artificial intelligencealgorithmic justice+3 | — | 1h 03m 03s | ||
| 7/20/26 | designinnovation+4 | James Dyson | Dyson | — | James Dysondesign+5 | — | 42m 47s | ||
| 7/13/26 | memoiridentity+4 | Laverne Cox | Orange Is the New BlackTranscendent | New York City | Laverne Coxmemoir+5 | — | 43m 15s | ||
| 7/6/26 | memoirmemory+4 | Craig Mod | Things Become Other Things | — | Craig Modmemoir+5 | — | 1h 22m 31s | ||
| 6/29/26 | creative entrepreneurshipdigital media+5 | Piera Gelardi | Refinery29The Playful Way | — | Piera GelardiRefinery29+5 | — | 1h 08m 11s | ||
| 6/22/26 | sciencepoetry+4 | Maria Popova | The MarginalianTraversal | — | Maria PopovaThe Marginalian+6 | — | 1h 01m 15s | ||
| 6/15/26 | creative processliterary honors+3 | Ann Patchett | Parnassus BooksBel Canto+3 | — | Ann PatchettTED Conference+4 | — | 29m 49s | ||
| 6/8/26 | designarchitecture+4 | Spencer Bailey | The SlowdownTime Sensitive+1 | — | Spencer Baileydesign+5 | — | 1h 25m 50s | ||
| 6/1/26 | theaterdirecting+3 | Michael Arden | AcastParade+2 | — | Tony Awarddirector+5 | — | 1h 00m 23s | ||
| 5/25/26 | comedypersonal storytelling+3 | Julia Sweeney | Saturday Night Live | — | Julia Sweeneycomedy+5 | — | 1h 06m 28s | ||
| 5/18/26 | streetwearbranding+3 | Bobby Hundreds | The HundredsDisney Consumer Products | Los Angeles | Bobby HundredsThe Hundreds+5 | — | 46m 56s | ||
| 5/11/26 | technologyjournalism+3 | Manoush Zomorodi | NPRBody Electric | — | Manoush ZomorodiDebbie Millman+5 | — | 57m 41s | ||
| 4/30/26 | design leadershiphuman-centered innovation+4 | Mauro Porcini | SamsungDesign Matters Media | — | Mauro PorciniSamsung+6 | — | 1h 09m 44s | ||
| 4/24/26 | investigative journalismpower+4 | Jodi Kantor | The New York TimesSupreme Court+1 | — | Jodi Kantorinvestigative journalism+4 | — | 1h 18m 29s | ||
| 4/20/26 | paintingfiguration+4 | Cy Gavin | Metropolitan Museum of ArtDesign Matters Media | — | Cy Gavinpainting+5 | — | 48m 55s | ||
| 4/13/26 | designcreativity+3 | Pum Lefebure | Design ArmyDesign Matters Media | Bangkok | Pum LefebureDesign Army+4 | — | 1h 04m 41s | ||
| 4/6/26 | creative studioanimation+4 | Santiago Carrasquilla | Art CampTED | Colombia | Santiago CarrasquillaArt Camp+5 | — | 55m 30s | ||
| 3/30/26 | historypolitical conflict+5 | Timothy Snyder | Design Matters MediaTED+4 | — | Timothy Snyderfreedom+5 | — | 50m 18s | ||
| 3/23/26 | poetryU.S. Poet Laureate+4 | Ada Limón | Design Matters MediaThe Carrying+2 | — | Ada Limónpoetry+5 | — | 1h 10m 58s | ||
| 3/16/26 | memoryembodiment+4 | Lidia Yuknavitch | The Chronology of WaterReading the Waves+1 | — | Lidia YuknavitchThe Chronology of Water+5 | — | 1h 20m 47s | ||
| 3/9/26 | political legacyinternet culture+5 | Jack Schlossberg | On Air FestTED | — | Jack SchlossbergJohn F. Kennedy+7 | — | 42m 21s | ||
| 3/2/26 | artfashion+3 | Kim Hastreiter | Paper magazineStuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos | New York | Kim HastreiterPaper magazine+3 | — | 1h 17m 51s | ||
| 2/23/26 | philosophygames+4 | C. Thi Nguyen | Design Matters MediaTED+2 | — | C. Thi Nguyengames+5 | — | 1h 11m 04s | ||
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Chart history for Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Peaked at #1 in ID, top 10 in 31 of 50 tracked markets, currently #1 in ID.
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| PE | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| CZ | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| HU | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| MY | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| United States | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| ID | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| KE | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| Canada | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| TR | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| HK | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| TH | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| CO | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| NG | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| Germany | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| Finland | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| PL | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| GR | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| South Korea | — | #5 | #5 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 47 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 47 markets.