Designer, artist, author and Design Matters radio show host Debbie Millman is the newest addition to the esteemed list of designers for The Luxe Project by MOO. Millman’s just launched collection, Word Play, offers MiniCards and Notecards, with 100% of the net proceeds going to the Joyful Heart Foundation.
Word Play features the visual essays that Millman created for her books Self-Portrait As Your Traitor and Look Both Ways, and from her collection of Happy Greeting Cards she designed for MOO. “Since so much of my illustrative work is word-based I thought it would be fun to deconstruct the art I’d created, to be able to infinitely reconstruct new sentences,” says Millman, “They can be mixed and matched in any number of ways to create different conversations.”
Millman’s eccentric and beautiful typographic essays have been called “visual poetry” by Cool Hunting, and said to be “… a memoir with the profound, universal resonance of philosophy on our shared human triumphs and tribulations” by Brain Pickings.
Each designer for The Luxe Project selects a charity that is close to his/her heart, to receive 100% of the net proceeds from sales of the collection. Debbie has chosen the Joyful Heart Foundation as the charity to receive 100% of the net proceeds from sales of her collection. “I chose the Joyful Heart Foundation because I believe in its vision – a community with no sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse. The foundation’s mission is to heal, educate and empower survivors. I’d like to do everything I can to support the efforts,” says Millman.
About Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman is an artist, designer, creative entrepreneur, writer, brand strategist, and educator who draws no distinction between life and work, career and calling. Her visual essays have been exhibited at the Chicago Design Museum, have graced the pages of Print Magazine, and have been collected in Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays at the Intersection of Life and Design. Since 2005, her radio show Design Matters has been a beacon of creative culture through conversations with luminaries like Malcolm Gladwell, Milton Glaser, Lawrence Weiner, Neville Brody, Maira Kalman, and dozens more. In 2011, the show received the prestigious Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. She is the author of the interview anthologies Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits and How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer. From co-founding and chairing the Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts to working with some of the world’s most prominent brands as President of the design division at Sterling Brands to serving as President Emeritus of AIGA, Millman has been pushing the limits of the possible in branding, design, and the communication arts for nearly two decades.
