Clever Ep. 59: Barbara Bestor
Architect Barbara Bestor’s childhood memories involve Brutalist architecture and purple carpeted stairs. She divided her youth between the East Coast, Germany and the Midwest, before venturing to Los Angeles, the…
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Clever Ep. 58: Ti Chang
Industrial designer Ti Chang is co-founder and creative director of Crave, a start-up dedicated to innovative and elevated sex toys. Originally from Taiwan, as a child Ti moved with her…
Ep. 57: Clever Extra – Neoculture
We teamed up with Tarkett for this Clever Extra to take a deep dive into Neoculture – a term coined to describe the way diverse cultures are coming together as…
Clever Ep. 56: Jerry Helling
President and Creative Director of Bernhardt Design, Jerry Helling, grew up on a ranch in a remote town with 11 people in his graduating class before venturing to USC and…
Clever Ep. 55: Rose Apodaca
Fashion journalist and design retailer Rose Apodaca wears many professional hats. She spent her youth immersed in the lively Los Angeles music and skateboarding scenes, then became a journalist covering…
Clever Ep. 54: Eric Quint
Eric Quint, Chief Design Officer of 3M, incubated a lifelong habit of design thinking in youth at the family kitchen table. After studying engineering and industrial design he embarked on…
Clever Ep. 53: Nika Zupanc
Product designer and installation artist, Nika Zupanc, has always had a strong emotional reaction to furniture, both positive and negative. Born and raised in former Yugoslavia, she was attracted at…
Clever Ep. 52: Oliver Heilmer
Car designer Oliver Heilmer has known he wanted to go into auto design since he was a little kid fascinated by tractors on his grandmother’s farm. He grew up in…
Clever Ep. 51: Meyghan Hill
Metalworker and designer Meyghan Hill tells Amy and Jaime how she opted to send herself to military boarding school and then stumbled into a modeling career before empowering herself after…
Clever Ep. 50: Todd Bracher
Strategic designer Todd Bracher regales us with tales of a serendipitous ten-year journey, living, loving and learning through Europe, on the way to launching his namesake studio in Brooklyn. Plus,…