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Make Life Better. By Design

Make Life Better. By Design

By: Kevin Drayton
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A podcast about design and how it can make life better, for all of us.

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  • Podcast 05

    Podcast 05
    Jul 11 2025

    Using words is a form of design. Writing and reading have a huge role to play in making life better.
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    14 mins
  • Episode 4: Packaging

    Episode 4: Packaging
    Jul 2 2025

    Packaging is ubiquitous. For something so short-lived it nonetheless has an important job and consumes a lot of resources. In this episode, Kevin Drayton looks at the design and lifecycle of packaging, particularly relevant with the surge in internet shopping and concern with recycling and plastics.

    What is your relationship with packaging? Have you a considered attitude to the stuff or is it just an inevitable part of consumer culture?
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    20 mins
  • Episode 3: Only Connect

    Episode 3: Only Connect
    Jul 1 2025

    Design often asks us to reconcile what initially may seem to be antithetical requirements. Architecture in particular needs to blend art and science, intuition and analysis, emotion and logic. But the proposition holds true in all design to varying degrees.

    In this episode Kevin Drayton references E M Forster's much-quoted line: "Only connect the prose and the passion" as shorthand for this aspect of design
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    16 mins

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