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Design Matters with Debbie Millman is one of the world’s very first podcasts. Broadcasting independently for over 15 years, the show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/328074695/episodes \
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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
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      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Design Matters with Debbie Millman transcripts

Debra McGuire

October 19, 2026

Debra McGuire (0:01)

It's a two-dimensional surface. You know, what we're looking at is a television set, and it's like a painting. So what makes a painting interesting? Well, it's color, form, shape, light. And I thought, okay, I am going to give every character their own color field, their own palette.

SPEAKER_2 (0:24)

From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, a conversation with Debra McGuire about her surprising career and about when art collides with business.

Debra McGuire (0:49)

I knew I was running a business when I couldn't collect money and I was like, oh.

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