S11E0: Meet the Redesigners

Welcome to the eleventh season of The Design of Business | The Business of Design podcast!

In this season, co-hosts Jessica Helfand and Ellen McGirt are focusing on the redesigners: people who are addressing urgent problems by challenging big assumptions about how the world can and should work — and who it should work for. Our first guest, Carrie Mae Weems, embodies the essence of multidisciplinary art and a commitment to portraying the realities of Black life.

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By Jessica Helfand & Ellen McGirt

Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.

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Ellen McGirt is an author, podcaster, speaker, community builder, and award-winning business journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of Design Observer, a media company that has maintained the same clear vision for more than two decades: to expand the definition of design in service of a better world. Ellen established the inclusive leadership beat at Fortune in 2016 with raceAhead, an award-winning newsletter on race, culture, and business. The Fortune, Time, Money, and Fast Company alumna has published over twenty magazine cover stories throughout her twenty-year career, exploring the people and ideas changing business for good. Ask her about fly fishing if you get the chance.