Brand New Ways

The magic of nature, losing our sense of time, remembering to be grateful, getting into an exercise groove, and the joy of making pom poms! In this episode, I talk to artist and textile designer Dana Haim, whose mission is to spark joy through the creation of ethical, hand-made goods. She achieves this and then some through her instructional workshops across the U.S. and strategic partnerships with local organizations in Mexico and Colombia (where her family is from), which allow her to weave social and environmental consciousness into her craft. Dana received her BA in textile design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and her MA in design for Textile Futures from Central Saint Martins in London.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Pom Pom Play Girl (Session Highlights) [Instrumental Mix With Backing Vocals] – The Beach Boys Shake It Like a Pom Pom – Missy Elliot Pom Pom – Mozart La Para I Slept With Bonhomme At The CBC Pom Pom - Matthew Dear Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield The Wes Anderson Collection, by Matt Zoller Seitz   Watch List Wes Anderson: The Criterion Collection (on DVD)   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Brain power, the science of character, what connects us as human beings, and the always important weekly date night. In this episode, I talk to übermensch Tiffany Shlain, founder of The Webby Awards and creator of the AOL Originals series "The Future Starts Here." Her work adeptly explores the intersections of humanity, technology, science and culture.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Stream of Consciousness (Skratch Bastid Remix) - Afiara Quartet Delirious – Prince You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Original 7" Mix] – Dead or Alive I've Seen All Good People: A. Your Move, B. All Good People – Yes Daily News - Maps & Atlases Where Is the Line? – Björk Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List Expanded Cinema, by Gene Youngblood Art & Physics, by Leonard Shlain The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain Sex, Time & Power, by Leonard Shlain Leonardo's Brain, by Leonard Shlain   Watch List The Future Starts Here The Making of a Mensch The Adaptable Mind The Science of Character   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Nancy Drew, John Waters, Queen Bey, Helvetica – the perfume, and their dream of one day opening a speakeasy-inspired design studio. In this episode, I talk to Faun Chapin and Meg Paradise, the ginger-haired power duo behind Guts & Glory, a creative collective fueled by courage, vigor, character and oomph.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) First True Love Affair – Jimmy Ross No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys Helvetica (The American Dollar remix) – Arms and Sleepers Two Political Party – Terror Fabulous Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan The Dress Looks Nice on You – Sufjan Stevens Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List Nancy Drew John Waters   Watch List Meg & Faun on MSNBC talking about their project "They Don't Work For You" Helvetica The Perfume: The Lovers Helvetica The Perfume: The Haters   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Fitness, friendship, driving fast, wearing kaftans, and comedians in cars getting coffee. In this episode, I talk to Victoria Smith, photographer, stylist, and editor of the internationally popular design blog sfgirlbybay, one of the west coast’s leading interior design blogs, with a faithful following that includes social media butterflies, top magazine editors, designophiles, and industry professionals.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Neighbor, Neighbor – ZZ Top Get Out of My House - The Streets Aperol Sunset - Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco Avalon – Roxy Music Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List See San Francisco: Through the Lens of SFGirlbyBay, by Victoria Smith A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham   Watch List Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Amélie   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Animated gifs, Arctic Monkeys, retreating to the sea, painting the moon, and eliminating nationalities in the name of living in harmony. In this episode, I talk to Oded Ezer, graphic artist, typographer, and conceptual artist (known as "Cat Chap"). He founded the Hebrew Typography type foundry in 2004, but is best known for his typographic design fiction projects, which have been exhibited at the V&A in London and MoMA in New York.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Typography – Jim Dandy Miles from Nowhere – Cat Stevens The Smile On Your Face - Little Ann Ludlow St. - Julian Casablancas Left Hand Free – alt-J Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List Oded Ezer: The Typographer s Guide to the Galaxy, by Oded Ezer On Yona Wallach The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, by Gilles Deleuze   Watch List 5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Mogwai, chocolate, embroidered hankies, cheeky puns, and sparking conversations about social justice one stitch at a time. In this episode, I talk to cross-stitcher and activist Sarah Corbett, who’s the founder of Craftivist Collective, a global social enterprise that uses craft as a tool for gentle actions aimed at influencing long-term change.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - Carpenters The Craft - Blackalicious Going Down to Liverpool – The Bangles Two Rights Make One Wrong – Mogwai Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List Craftivism, by Betty Greer Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell Don't Think Of An Elephant!, by George Lakoff Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story, by Frederik Peeters   Watch List To Kill A Mockingbird   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Kanye West, Lena Dunham, Chris Rock, personal mentors as catalysts for discovering your life's work, and breaking out of boxes that limit you. In this episode, I talk to designer, illustrator and art director Timothy Goodman, who recently exhibited artworks from "Memories of A Girl I Never Knew" at Colette in Paris, collaborated with Jessica Walsh on 40 Days of Dating, and wrote Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques & Ideas for Transforming Your World.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Highly Suspicious – My Morning Jacket Greenfield Morning/Seed of Joy/Life is a Struggle - RZA & Yoko Ono Colette – Orchestra Baobob Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac On Sight – Kanye West All My Love – Led Zeppelin Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World, by Timothy Goodman 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment, by Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand The Autobiogrpahy of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley Significant Objects, by Jason Grote   Watch List 40 Days of Dating   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Vintage baseball gear, stackable monster toys, Scooby Doo, Foo Fighters, and blazing your own trail. In this episode, I talk to designer and illustrator Don Clark, who founded Invisible Creature with his brother Ryan in 2006. It's a Grammy Award-nominated, multi-disciplinary creative studio housed in a dreamy refurbished barn just outside of Seattle.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Runners - Lecrae Space - M.I.A. Polyethylene, Pt. 1 & 2 - Radiohead The Pretender - Foo Fighters Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Reading List Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, by Andy Crouch The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, by C. S. Lewis The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden, by Kevin DeYoung (author) and Don Clark (illustrator)   Watch List Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Mad Max (1979)   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Suburban fluxus, Wes Anderson films, carpet crop circles, and the complex (and often comedic) dynamics of family life within a consumer culture. In this episode, I talk to Hillerbrand+Magsamen, a husband and wife collaborative artistic team – Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen – who met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and now live and practice their art in the suburbs of Houston, Texas with their two children and three dogs.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Once In a Lifetime - Talking Heads We Are Family (Single Version) – Sister Sledge Stranglehold – Ted Nugent O Superman – Laurie Anderson Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Watch List Hillerbrand+Magsamen: Whole DIY Loveseat Accumulation Higher Ground   ** If you love my show, please subscribe, rate and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com

Kid Cudi, The Alchemist, and the lost art of collecting wine and revisiting it over time. In this episode I talk to scientist and entrepreneur Corey Miller, who’s an MD and PhD, as well as the Founder and CEO of Bare Bottle, a San Francisco-based start-up that seeks to strip away the exclusivity of the wine industry by pairing beautiful wines with exceptional designs, and telling the stories of the makers behind both.   Music Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest) Red Red Wine – UB40 Velvet (The Voice Performance) – Chris Jamison French Kiss (Striptease Mix) – The Lovers Soundtrack 2 My Life – Kid Cudi Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes   Books The Alchemist, by Paolo Coehlo   Watch List French Kiss   ** If you like my show, please subscribe and review in iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit brandnewways.com