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…
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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,…
Clever Ep. 49: Lisa Roberts
Collector and high-design advocate, Lisa Roberts, reflects on a childhood spent in an architecturally significant home that discomfited her because it made her feel different from her peers, and also…
Clever Ep. 48: Timothy Goodman
Designer, illustrator and artist Timothy Goodman was labeled a “dead-end kid” in his youth until he did four years of hard labor with a mentor/father-figure in the home improvement industry,…
Clever Ep. 47: Jen Bekman
Entrepreneur and internet pioneer, Jen Bekman, tells the story of how she founded 20×200 with a mission of making art collecting accessible to everyone. On the leading edge of ecommerce,…
Clever Ep. 46: Joe Gebbia
Designer, entrepreneur, and Airbnb co-founder, Joe Gebbia, was known as the “art guy” in grade school when he started his first business selling illustrations of Ninja Turtles. Then, while pursuing…