Topic

product design

Podcast

Emmett Shine, Pattern Brands: Following opportunity – Well Made E150

"I think Gin Lane's impact got a lot larger once we quit Gin Lane." After building the brand identity for dozens of iconic modern brands, Gin Lane founder Emmett Shine is scaling a new home brands collaborative — Pattern Brands.

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Reggie James, Eternal: Making meaning – Well Made E148

Reggie James is questioning the role of our online identities and the platforms that contain them. As the CEO and founder of Eternal, he’s challenging product language with inspiration from game design, iconic futurists, and sci-fi.

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Tyler Mincey, Bolt: Taking things apart – Well Made E147

Tyler Mincey is a Partner at Bolt where he's always thinking about the long view of new products. With a decade of product experience, he's envisioning a future of tech that's more integrated and ambient than ever before.

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Ian Montgomery, Guacamole Airplane: Getting comfortable with trade-offs – Well Made E138

Ian Montgomery, founder and Creative Director of Guacamole Airplane is merging environmental science and design to push the limits of how we think about sustainable packaging.

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Andy Fallshaw, Bellroy: Designing for longevity – Well Made E133

Bellroy CEO and Co-founder Andy Fallshaw is debunking status quo for profit, purpose and product design, and evolving to meet the needs of our planet.

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Emily Singer: Giving your brand a soul – Well Made E130

From logo to mission statement, it's become easy to create a cookie-cutter brand. Emily Singer, author of Chips + Dips, explores how to break the mold.

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Eric Prum and Josh Williams, Very Great: Building Genuine Brands – Well Made E107

A great product does not equal a great brand. Co-founders Eric Prum and Josh Williams share the strategy behind the Very Great platform and how it has helped to build three consumer brands and counting — W&P Design, Wild One, and Courant.

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Jeremy Lang, Pela: Using Waste as Currency – Well Made E105

Phone cases don’t need to last a lifetime, but in a landfill, they might. Pela founder Jeremy Lang shares how he developed the compostable flax-based phone case material and how Pela is making a place for itself in the responsibility economy.

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Sarah Paiji Yoo, Blueland: Changing Consumer Behavior – Well Made E97

Blueland is taking the refill model and dehydrating it. Founder and CEO Sarah Paiji Yoo takes us behind the scenes of Blueland's busy first year, the struggles to find a manufacturer for their cleaning tablets, and pitching on Shark Tank.

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Manish Chandra, Poshmark: Letting Community Lead the Way – Well Made E89

We sit down with Poshmark founder and CEO, Manish Chandra to talk about the logistics of the resale marketplace, and building social ecommerce experiences.

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Kerry Cooper, Rothy's: Turning All the Dimmers Up – Well Made E81

Rothy's burst into the shoe market with flats made from recycled water bottles in 2016. Three years later, Kerry Cooper, the President of Rothy's, talks about treading new ground with the overseas expansion of their sustainable slip-on.

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Ara Katz, Seed: Seeding – Well Made E80

Breaking down the science of the microbiome with Seed.

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Kyle Hoff and Alex O'Dell, Floyd: Sitting is Timeless – Well Made E79

On sustainable furniture design with ready-to-assemble, flat-pack furniture company, Floyd.

Video

Unboxing Backdrop

See how Backdrop is delivering a complete click-and-ship painting kit experience.

Video

Unboxing Myro

On a new episode of Unboxing Things, see Myro's vibrant mint box that's as clever and adaptable as their refillable deodorant.

Podcast

Emily Sugihara, Baggu: Getting Weirder – Well Made E71

A year after our first talk, Baggu founder Emily Sugihara shares how they're preserving the heart of the bag brand.