Make Life Better. By Design
A podcast about design and how it can make life better, for all of us.
Make Life Better. By Design
Latest Episodes
Series 2 Episode 13: A Nose for Good Design
If you were blindfolded and not allowed to touch anything, would you be able to tell what building you were in? Adding earplugs might be straying into uncomfortable territory, but you would still be left with your sense of smell.
Series 2 Episode 12: What's the Council Ever Done for Us?
Local authorities would appear to be well placed to make life better for citizens. However, their opportunities and constraints are often misunderstood by the public.In this episode I've invited someone with first-hand knowledge of local...
Series 2 Episode 11: Designing life: Chemistry and Leadership
My guest for this episode believes that people are the important ingredient in successful enterprises. He also happens to be a chemistry graduate and vociferous advocate for making things i.e. manufacturing.Dean Morgan talks us through h...
Series 2 Episode 10: Show Me the Way to Go Home
Maps and diagrams: representations of reality that can make life better. Strangely, the greatest accuracy or truth to life does not necessarily make life better.In this episode we look at how our perception affects our interpretation of ...
Series 2 Episode 09: Design, Then and Now
The aim of many designers is to create timeless work. Whilst aiming for a long design life is admirable, we shouldn't get hooked up on trying to avoid the time in which we live and work.This episode explains that good design can be...
