As the year draws to a close so too does our podcast theme ‘What is Design?’. We look back over the good and bad of the last year or so. Dundee Design Festival, Detroit, Graphic Design Festival Scotland and a bad client experience that is sadly all too common. We’ve had lots of great conversations with some amazing since we started the podcast but it feels like a natural endpoint for this theme. In the episode, we both draw our conclusions from the theme and hopefully answer the question. We also start to look forward to the next theme around design education in the broad sense of the general population and in training new designers looking to join the industry.

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08 - What is Design?

Over the past 6 months we’ve been working on producing Dundee Design Festival 2019. From 21 – 28 May it was held at the Keiller Centre in the heart of Dundee with more than 7,000 people visiting. On the final day, we sat down to reflect on festival, the process and what worked/didn’t work as we’d imagined. Head to dundeedesignfestival.com for more information on what happened at the festival.

“All Keiller no filler” Dundee Design Festival 2019 Roundup

We went down to SWG3 in Glasgow to visit Warrior Studios and chat with James Gilchrist. James started Warrior studios with Beth Wilson after meeting at Edinburgh College of Art and holding themselves to a higher standard than that of their tutors. They then went on to create Graphic Design Festival Scotland as a response to problems they saw within the industry. They’re now moving into the 5th year of the festival that has grown in size and reputation over the years. We talk about the ups and downs the festival has brought as well as the design industry in Scotland as a whole. Warriors Studio - https://warriorsstudio.com/ Graphic Design Festival Scotland - https://graphicdesignfestivalscotland.com/2018/

06 - In a way GDFS is just a solution to a problem we saw.

You may have noticed our intro and outro jingles are different for every episode. Along with Yann Seznec we created a concrete encased jingle creator button that is different everyday. In this bonus episode we chat about where the concept came from and about some of the technology behind the button. We have even included some of Lyall’s excellent impressions of the button noises right at the end. Yann Seznec - http://www.yannseznec.com/ The Button - https://www.instagram.com/p/BnJc21ElKQ_/

Bonus 01 - Push the button

The second episode created from our trip to Helsinki looking at how design can change cities. This episode is all with private businesses in the city from Anssi Kähärä Creative Director/Co-founder Werklig who created the new Helsinki City brand to Kai Huotari Managing Director Cable Factory/Kaapelitehdas a brilliant industrial space that is now a cultural hub. Finally we chat to Timo Riitamaa Head of Comms & Marketing at Amos Rex a recently opened underground private art museum. Werklig - https://werklig.com/ The Cable Factory - https://www.kaapelitehdas.fi/ Amos Rex - https://amosrex.fi/en/

05 - Casual Spying in Helsinki

At the start of January we decided to pack up the mics and head to Helsinki. Being a fellow UNESCO City of Design with lots of amazing public buildings and spaces it seemed like a great place to talk to people about how design can change cities. In this first episode of 2 we chat to Laura Aalto CEO of Helsinki Marketing and Piia Lehtinen Head of Sponsorship - Design Museum and chair of the board at Helsinki Design District. Design Museum - http://www.designmuseum.fi/en/ Helsinki Design District - https://designdistrict.fi/en/ My Helsinki - https://www.myhelsinki.fi/en

04 - Designing a liveable city in Helsinki

In this episode we’re joined by Beth Bate, Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts to find out what she thinks about where the divide is between art and design. We also speak to a whole range of young people in situ at the V&A Dundee to find out their thoughts on the topic.

03 - Art or Design, is it a Choice?

A few months back we worked on the opening event for the V&A Dundee in collaboration with Biome Collective. In this episode, we reflect on the project with Tom and Mal from Biome. You can see photos from the night and all the work from the project here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/70356083/Hello-World About halfway through the episode, we segway into a discussion about the differences between art and design. We felt that we couldn’t just leave it there so got the opinions of a load of other people on the topic including Beth Bate from DCA in Dundee. Check out episode 03 for that.

02 - The 'Hello World' moment was a well designed piece of art.

For our first episode we went down to the Local Heroes - Made in Glasgow exhibition to chat to curator, writer and producer Stacey Hunter. We were also joined by one of the exhibitors, knitwear designer, Jennifer Kent and Emlyn Firth, designer and director at A Visual Agency. We start by talking about tradition and heritage in Scottish design and end up somewhere around seeing the need for a cultural shift to embed design at the heart of everything. Our Twitter - https://twitter.com/agencyofnone Local Heroes - https://www.localheroes.design/ Jennifer Kent - https://twitter.com/Jennifer__Kent Stacey Hunter - https://twitter.com/StaceyHunterEDI Emlyn Firth - https://twitter.com/emlynfirth

01 - Scotland Doesn't Have an Embedded Design Culture

Welcome to our new podcast. This intro episode to the podcast gives a bit of background on us (Ryan McLeod and Lyall Bruce), why we started Agency of None and why we created this podcast. We also introduce our goal for the next 12 months, to look at what design actually is and what it means to us. We then go off talking about design decisions and problems including people picking up after their four legged friends. Our Twitter - https://twitter.com/agencyofnone Our Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/agencyofnone/ Our Website - https://agencyofnone.com

Intro - 'Does dog poo affect you?'

A podcast by design studio, Agency of None. Ryan McLeod and Lyall Bruce look at what design is.

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