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Hosted by David McGillivray & Jacob Heftmann · arts · EN-US
Two designers on opposite coasts talk their way through creativity, culture, and tech. It’s a podcast about everything except design, that somehow always ends up being about design.
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Signup to Generate a PitchTwo designers on opposite coasts talk their way through creativity, culture, and tech. It’s a podcast about everything except design, that somehow always ends up being about design.
Works But Makes Noises is hosted by David McGillivray & Jacob Heftmann. The show has published 20 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Not-so-graphic design: Dueling product launches, why EV form factors are stuck, and the custom stack powering David’s new www" (19 October 2026, 61 minutes), "With Nick Pattison: Pentagram Boot Camp, Productizing Design, the Birth of Brand Sprints, and What AI Still Can’t Replace" (2 October 2026, 55 minutes), and "World Cup Kits, Mamdani’s Grocery Store RFP, Siri AI, and a Tribute to David Hockney" (15 June 2026, 58 minutes).
Works But Makes Noises publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 61 minutes across 20 episodes.
Booking probability for Works But Makes Noises is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Works But Makes Noises requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Works But Makes Noises's contact route on record: public web form.
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David McGillivray & Jacob Heftmann hosts Works But Makes Noises, an arts podcast with 20 episodes published.
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Works But Makes Noises
Jacob’s back from Indonesia and Japan to find that David didn’t, in fact, burn the house down. We compare two very different product launches – Apple’s new HomeView and Tesla’s dream car (if you're a 12-year-old boy)...
Works But Makes Noises
This week, Jacob’s somewhere in rural Singapore (I think?), so David sits down with Nick Pattison, founder of Primary Studio, to trace his path from Pentagram and Milton Glaser’s studio to building a productized design...
Works But Makes Noises
We're going full World Cup fan-mode this week. We make some personal picks for the tournament and talk best and worst of the national team kits. Also in the world of public and civic branding projects, we call out some...
Episode #14
<p>This week we're getting moooooody – moodboards, that is!</p><p>First we talk David's new iOS app Archiv, which lets you photograph and catalogue what's around you. Then we wade into the thorny world of design...
Episode #13
<p>This week we're joined by Estee Kim, VP of Design at Soft Services, the cult-favorite body care brand known for its meticulous design and packaging.</p><p>We talk on multi-generational design families, her parents’...
Works But Makes Noises
<p>electric car shopping and EV tradeoffs, figma comments and modern design feedback, fragmented feedback across tools, structuring better client critique, feedback psychology and confidence, figma shortcuts and...
Episode #11
<p>surf forecasting tools and building personal software, jacob’s 70’s surf rack archive and design lineage, figma config branding and pushing beyond the parent brand, using ai to study and learn through narrative...
Episode #10
<p>This week we’re joined by Allan Yu<b>, </b>designer and co-founder of community messaging app, Output. He previously worked as an early designer at Svpply, a cult favorite among designers, and later at Google Labs...
Episode #9
<p>Robot vacuum fleets, Claude code experiments, Personal SaaSpocalypse, closed loop design workflows, building before designing, design is the bottleneck, pushing to prod, the death of wireframes, grey box trauma, and...
Episode #8
<p>Ive's Ferrari collab, tactile design, electric performance, AI copycats, creative IP, opt-in consent, database tools vs model training, human-washed tech, the Granola rebrand, analog aesthetics, faux authenticity...
Works But Makes Noises
<p>How to pay off sleep debt, ancient internships, should designers c*de? design engineers, teaching at RISD and Parsons, experimental branding briefs and constraint-led projects, what design school doesn’t teach...
Works But Makes Noises
<p>The 52" monitor, home-cooked software, claude code, vibe coding, personal tools, craft, authenticity and imperfection, authorship and taste, designing without scale, having an independent design practice, freelancing...
Episode #5
<p>Snowstorms in the Catskills, Jacob’s month on the North Shore, selling the Audi and becoming a full-time Subaru guy, mechanics doing power slides in your car, talking lamps and unhinged home robots, Terminator bots...
Episode #4
<p>Ten foot skeletons, Gen Z nonchalance vs. Millennial effortfulness, Zohran's campaign design, Al Gore was the worst client.<br/><br/><b>Links mentioned in the show<br/><br/></b>Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked...
Episode #3
<p>Surfing in Mexico, Gap is back, having a personal ‘uniform’, Electric Bikes, NYC Subway design, AI slop (oh no), edible rocks, 90’s ad agency offices, naming things.</p><p>David McGillivray is a designer and creative...
Episode #2
<p>New Grillitype launches, social battery collapse, Palermo wedding gossip, buying a 2008 Subaru on Facebook Marketplace, DMV purgatory, LL Bean collab trim, new iPhone and AirPods takes, AI brand builders, Jacob hates...
Episode #1
<p>Catskills nervous system reset, tiny New York party memories, birthday art pilgrimages, Mass MoCA, basic-taste art confessions, work-life blur, Apple event ambivalence, light-phone fantasies</p><p>David McGillivray...
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