Prolific Italian designer and architect Fabio Novembre speaks about the poetry of design, the importance of diversity, and the power of creating fewer things but with immense intention and meaning.

Celebrity photographer and filmmaker, Francesco Carrozzini, believes human connection is the most important element of his work, "the picture is the result of what happened between me and them on set."

Che Douglas, VP of Design at Booking.com, UI/UX design leader, and Founder of BTP Design, talks about the rewards and challenges of bringing design excellence and innovation into the business world.

Dawn Okoro, a Nigerian American mixed media artist whose creations are inspired by fashion and pop culture, discusses the importance of representation in the art world and the role it plays in her work.

Bobby Berk, Design guru on Netflix’s Emmy-award-winning Queer Eye, describes his career journey as a series of upward failures. As a high school drop-out who once lived in his car, Bobby says “if I can do it, anybody can.”

Emmy award-winning creative, Chris Do, has over two decades experience making a living doing what he loves. His online education platform, The Futur, teaches others to do the same through courses in the business of design.

Author and industrial designer, Ayse Birsel, believes that no matter how challenging the problem, anything – from a product, to society, to your life – can be designed to be better.

Mike Chapman is a television producer whose work spans continents and genres. Learn how his latest project, New York by Design, taught him that he’s actually been a designer his whole career.

As both an artist and the founder of a global creative executive search firm, Michelle Stuhl shares how pursuing her passion with the support of strong female mentors lead to a fulfilling, unexpected career trajectory.

Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), shares how empathy for the community drives his creative design solutions, which include incorporating a ski slope and climbing wall into the exterior of a waste-to-energy plant.

Michael Bierut, graphic designer, Pentagram partner, and founder of Design Observer, talks about inspiration and how rejection is a learning opportunity in disguise.

Michel Rojkind, founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and Senior Vice President of Architecture at WeWork, discusses the permanent ways he predicts working, travel and the pace of life will change following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Janou Pakter, founder of global creative and marketing executive search firm, Janou LLC, shares her number one interview tip.

Karim Rashid, who believes “we are all born creative,” shares how his childlike sense of wonder has fueled his career as one of the most prolific industrial designers of our time.

Carole Bilson, President of The Design Management Institute, speaks about the importance of diverse representation in the design world and how we can pave a path for the next generation of women and people of color in the industry.

Kevin Bethune’s background spans engineering, business and design with leadership roles at Nike, Boston Consulting Group and his own innovation think tank, dreams • design + life. He believes design’s purpose expands far beyond just a beautiful sketch or product, design is a “creative problem-solving toolkit” that can be applied to improve organizations and societal systems at large.

Ravi Naidoo is the founder of Interactive Africa and Design Indaba, an annual three-day design conference hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. Devoted to building a better world through creativity, he shares his journey to creating one of the world’s most important design conferences and why he believes designers are incurable romantics.

Stefan Sagmeister, graphic design and founder of Sagmeister & Walsh, says that consistently overcoming your fears leads to a more fulfilling career, and life.

Fabio Volo, Italian writer, actor, radio host and author, shares the strategies he uses to inspire anyone—from his two children to his nationwide broadcast audience.

Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, curator and podcast host. Her career — which includes creating the iconic straw-in-the-orange Tropicana logo and launching one of the world’s first, and longest-running, podcasts — has taught her that sometimes your greatest success is born from your greatest rejection.

Learn why Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, and Director of R&D at the MoMA, thinks that the humble sticky note might just be the highest form of design.