Debbie Millman

Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman (image: Chase Jarvis)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Babson College
Known for	hosting the podcast Design Matters
Website	www.debbiemillman.com

Debbie Millman is an American writer, educator, artist, and designer who is best known as the host of the podcast Design Matters.

From 1995 to 2016 Millman was the President of the Design Division, and Chief Marketing Officer at Sterling Brands based in New York City, where she worked with many of the world’s largest brands, such as Pepsi, Gillette, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, Nestlé, and Campbells including the redesign of Burger King, merchandising for Star Wars and the positioning and branding of the No More movement.

In 2005, Millman founded Design Matters, a design podcast that now has over 300 interviews with design leaders, educators, authors and thinkers including Massimo Vignelli, Steven Heller, Marian Bantjes, Tina Roth Eisenberg, and Stefan Sagmeister, Milton Glaser, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Barbara Kruger, Seth Godin and more. By mid 2017, 12 years since its inception the show has passed the five million downloads per year mark. The podcast received a number of awards such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and in 2015 iTunes named it one of the best podcasts of the year.