We are two dorks with degrees in design and we wax poetic about everyday objects, fashion, interactions, and all things designed in the world. Our conversations run the gamut from examining that pen in your pocket to questioning whether pressing or percolating coffee produces a better brew. Part persnickety and part pop culture, our hosts keep things keen. So join us as we incite deep dives and invite expert perspectives about all things design, darling.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWe are two dorks with degrees in design and we wax poetic about everyday objects, fashion, interactions, and all things designed in the world. Our conversations run the gamut from examining that pen in your pocket to questioning whether pressing or percolating coffee produces a better brew. Part persnickety and part pop culture, our hosts keep things keen.
Recent episodes include "Design Brief: Candy Corn's Sweet but Complicated Past" (29 October 2026, 16 minutes), "Design Brief: Skelly the Skeleton and Finding Whimsy in the Macabre" (27 October 2026, 16 minutes), and "Design Brief: Defining the Brief" (22 October 2026, 18 minutes).
Design Darlings publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for Design Darlings is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Design Darlings requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Design Darlings's contact route on record: verified email.
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Design Darlings is an arts podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Design Darlings
Every Halloween, one candy enters the villa already a villain. We love her. We hate her. She is candy corn. But how did this audacious and polarizing candy come to be? What started as a simple penny candy morphed into a...
Design Darlings
Ok you ghouls in goblins, on this week of Halloween we are casting a spell in honor of the season’s silliest and perhaps most viral decoration. That’s right. It’s the Home Depot 12-foot skeleton also known as Skelly. In...
Design Darlings
After a short fall break, we’re back with a surprise: Design Brief , our new segment of bite-sized design insights to tide you over between our longer episodes. In our inaugural episode, we break down the design brief...
Episode #114
We've always wanted to peek into other people's homes. In this episode, we trace how that impulse went from locked-door exclusivity to full-blown entertainment. Good taste used to require money and connections, until...
Episode #113
From the iconic red square of Coca-Cola to the curvilinear geometry of midcentury furniture, codes define the objects, environments and systems around us. Design codes are what make us instantly recognize a blue box as...
Episode #112
This week we’re getting stitched into the world of theatre with CS Fergusson-Vaux, a theatre and installation artist whose work moves fluidly between costume, set, and performance art. We start with Shakespeare and...
Episode #111
This summer has been scorching, and the design discourse has been no cooler. In this episode, we're serving up a menu of design tapas: an artistic amuse-bouche, a cinematic charcuterie board, and a little bit of...
Episode #110
<p>The postwar ‘50s saw TVs proliferate into every American home—and the ad dollars followed. As media flooded American living rooms, ad dollars poured right in after them — advertising spend nearly quintupled from the...
Episode #110
The postwar ‘50s saw TVs proliferate into every American home—and the ad dollars followed. As media flooded American living rooms, ad dollars poured right in after them — advertising spend nearly quintupled from the...
Episode #9
<p>In this episode, we trace the disco ball from 1920s jazz clubs where it scattered light equally across every dancing body, through fifty years of obscurity, to its resurrection in the 1970s alongside a revolution in...
Episode #9
In this episode, we trace the disco ball from 1920s jazz clubs where it scattered light equally across every dancing body, through fifty years of obscurity, to its resurrection in the 1970s alongside a revolution in...
Design Darlings
<p>We’re living in a moment where recent history feels lost but still recoverable. The 90s are close enough to feel familiar, and distant enough to feel like a mirage in the desert of all things digital. Turning away...
Episode #107
<p>Wine has always been two things at once: what's in the bottle and everything around it. In this episode of Design Darlings, we uncork the full design story of wine. Our guest Matthew Stebenne is a...
Episode #105
<p>Fashion is a cultural phenomenon. A mix of design, photography, style, and setting, a garment isn't just an isolated confabulation of fabric — it's an experience, an aspiration, a mini movie in a single snap. This...
Episode #105
<p>Over the millennia, our humble water bottle had a serious glow-up. The modern metal tumbler is an innovation in thermodynamics that you tote from the farmers market to your freeway commute. But somewhere between the...
Design Darlings
<p>From the steam-powered chaos of the 18th century to the silicon-fueled frenzy of the digital age, humans have always met technological upheaval with the same cocktail of terror, wonder, and remarkable adaptation...
Episode #3
<p>This week our hosts discuss a caffeinated story arc covering early 2000s coffee houses to the design-ification of coffee hustle vibes. Did the social media girl boss grind aesthetic hijack the formerly cozy couch...
Episode #2
<p>Can something as functional as fire have design? This episode asks how the invention of matches and lighters sparked from a basic necessity–like lighting candles, lamps, and tobacco– into statements of self...
Episode #1
<p>This first episode introduces our podcast premise, our hosts, and posits the big question- what IS design? We consider the 4 orders of design and their place in brand development, while also considering how human...
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