Debbie Millman

Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, and strategist. She is president of the design division at Sterling Brands, where she has worked on the redesign of over two hundred global brands, including projects with P&G, Colgate, Nestlé, Kraft, and Pepsi.

Millman is also cofounder and chair of the world’s first Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is president emeritus of AIGA, the largest professional association for design in the world, and she serves as a contributing editor at Print magazine. In 2005, she began hosting Design Matters, the first podcast about design on the Internet. In 2011, the show received the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Award.

She is the author of six books on design and branding. Last year, an exhibition of her visual essays debuted at the Chicago Design Museum; they are currently on view at Anderson University in South Carolina.