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AFOLs Welcome: A Lego PodcastBRICKA Magazine - AFOLs Welcome: Episode 86Episode Details:In this week’s episode, Grinch and West are joined by special guest Sam Aquillano. Sam is the founder and Editor in Chief of the brand new LEGO® magazine for AFOLs, BRICKA. We hope you enjoy Sam’s passion for stories and the brick as much as we enjoyed talking with him. Here’s to the future success of a new pillar of LEGO® AFOL media.This episode focuses on BRICKA magazine.https://www.brickamag.com/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/afols_welcome/https://www.instagram.com/brickamag/Episod...
2026-02-021h 54
WBUR Up Next A new print magazine celebrates creativity of adult fans of Legos Massachusetts resident Sam Aquillano’s passion for Lego building as an art form drove him to create a new, independent magazine, Bricka. The first issue printed this month.
2025-12-1704 min
The Virtual Campfire with Tony MartignettiMake Your Ideas Happen: A Creative Journey With Sam AquillanoDesign is everywhere, and you can find creativity in every corner of the world. But how it influences and inspires is all up to you. In this episode, Sam Aquillano, an author, host of the Inside Front Cover Podcast, Founder and Executive & Creative Director of Design Museum Everywhere, and Senior Strategic Designer at Edward Jones, recounts his creative adventures and shares flashpoints that led to his success as a design leader and entrepreneur. He talks about how following your instinct, collaboration, and the power of the community can help affect change in your life and others. He also shares his...
2022-10-2448 min
Inside Front Cover08 - The Book Cover RevealIt’s all come to this — in this episode host Sam Aquillano chats with Blake Goodwin, Paul Reiss, and Andrea Cincotta from Proportion Design as they unveil the final cover design for Sam’s forthcoming book, Adventures in Disruption. This is the book cover reveal! After the unveiling, Sam shares the book cover for the first time, with his Design Museum co-founder, Derek Cascio. Derek shares his latest creative entrepreneurial venture, Thirst Burster which he’s launching a kickstarter campaign for; check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotnotcom/thirst-burster
Finally, Sam and the Proportion team do a...
2022-10-1041 min
Inside Front Cover07 - Refined Cover DesignsIn this episode, host Sam Aquillano dives deep into the first 12 concepts through a conversation with his wife Nicole and through conversations on social media. The community has weighed in, and Sam shares some of the comments. After Sam gives the feedback to Proportion Design, they get back to it and design 8 new cover refinements. Hear from designers Blake Goodwin, Paul Reiss, and Andrea Cincotta as they share the refinements and talk about what’s working and what’s not. For more information, visit insidefrontcover.com, and for more visuals from the design process, including the 8 refined designs, visit prin...
2022-09-1336 min
Inside Front Cover06 - Cover Design ConceptsThe first round of book cover designs is here! In this episode, Sam kicks things off by chatting with his wife Nicole about the two creative directions Proportion presented last time so that he can share his feedback on what’s working and what’s not, and so that they can start designing cover concepts. Sam and Nicole also discuss book titles, and thanks to the community on social media, they get down to the final option: Adventures in Disruption! Then the Proportion team, including Blake Goodwin, Paul Reiss, and Andrea Cincotta, share their first round of cover designs — 12 concep...
2022-08-2935 min
Inside Front Cover05 - Brand Attributes & Creative DirectionSam kicks off this episode with big news about his involvement with the Design Museum. And the design project continues: for the first 4 episodes, the Proportion Design team has been in listen and learn mode, taking in a lot of information. Now the team, including Blake Goodwin, Paul Reiss, and Andrea Cincotta, share their distillation of those learnings into 3 distinct brand attributes, which form a triangle — the book cover design will be positioned in the middle of that triangle. They share initial creative directions at the center of those 3 attributes — visuals meant to stimulate conversation about where they’ll go nex...
2022-08-1535 minInside Front Cover04 - Audience & PersonasSam visits Proportion Design’s office to talk about audience profiles for the book, with Blake Goodwin and Paul Reiss. The Proportion team prepared an overall audience profile and three personas to discuss and agree on before moving forward in the design process. They also shared brand associations that these personas might have and the design elements which they could draw from when crafting the cover. Sam and the team also brainstorm titles for the book which Sam shares with his wife Nicole for her candid feedback. For more info visit insidefrontcover.com
2022-06-2830 minInside Front Cover03 - Market Comparables & CompetitionSam visits Proportion Design’s office for the second session — this time focused on understating the competition. Proportion Co-Founders Blake Goodwin and Paul Reiss show, and talk through, a presentation of books they curated that display a broad range of existing cover designs — from books that occupy a similar niche as Sam’s book, to a broad range of covers consisting of elements that might inspire directions that could differentiate the look of this book. The team shares what does and does not resonate with Sam’s book theme. This content is inherently visual, visit insidefrontcover.com to see the book c...
2022-06-2132 minInside Front Cover02 - DiscoveryIn episode 2, host Sam Aquillano visits Proportion Design’s office for the first real session in the process, Discovery, where Proportion Co-Founders Blake Goodwin and Paul Reiss turn the tables and interview Sam about the vision behind his new book. As Paul says, as designers they’re often acting as brand therapists to ask the right questions and tease out the key information that will help them proceed through the design process. Sam, Blake, and Paul cover a range of topics, from the founding of the museum to the most pivotal moments in the book, and end on a seri...
2022-06-1433 minInside Front Cover01 - Setting the StageIn this first episode, host Sam Aquillano shares an overview of the show and the design project to create the cover of his new book, with Proportion Design, and with feedback from the community (you!). Sam introduces the concept of 'creative startups,' then welcomes Derek Cascio, Co-Founder of Design Museum Boston, to talk about starting the museum and the museum's first public design project to create its brand identity 10 years ago. Then we hear from Blake Goodwin and Paul Reiss, Co-Founders of Proportion Design about the brand design process they and their team will go through to design...
2022-06-0731 minInside Front CoverInside Front Cover PreviewIntroducing Inside Front Cover, a limited-series podcast about designing the cover of a book from start to finish, incorporating your feedback along the way. Hosted by entrepreneur and business designer Sam Aquillano, Founder & Executive Director of Design Museum Everywhere. Each week we'll share the design process and community feedback as my partners at Proportion Design create the cover for Sam's new book about launching and growing creative startups.
2022-05-2906 min
Design Nerds AnonymousThe Future...Our final, but most important episode this season, brings you expert advice on to where to start when it comes to making meaningful change in our organizations, our industry and our world.
We’re exploring how small, intentional efforts can have the biggest future impact on topics around Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion with Sam Aquillano, founder of Design Museum Everywhere, as well as the industry’s biggest sustainability initiatives with Avi Rajagopal, Editor-in-Chief of Metropolis – and his optimistic take on how a focus on climate change can bring us all together for a common cause.
So listen in, because in the words of...
2021-08-0540 min
Design is EverywhereLive Show: How do we teach empathy?From the Design is Everywhere live show, Sam Aquillano learns more about how to design for empathy in the classroom. He is joined by Susie Wise, an equity design ally with a focus on culture change and building belonging in organizations and an Adjunct Professor at the d.school where she founded and led the K12 Lab. Susie chats about how to define empathy and what empathy looks like in the classroom. Later on in the show, they are joined by Matthew Kressy, the founding director of the MIT Integrated Design and Management program and the Innovation Advisor and...
2021-06-1041 minDesign is EverywhereWayfinding the Future: Logos to Landmarks, Live showAs part of our monthly Design is Everywhere live series, Sam Aquillano learns how designers use wayfinding as an indicator of space that guides people through a physical environment. He is joined by Kayte Muse, a designer and strategist who is passionate about creative problem solving, design strategy, storytelling, teaching, and mentoring. Kayte is a co-chair of the Boston Chapter of SEGD- the Society for Experiential Graphic Design. She discusses what experiential graphic design is and how wayfinding is used. Later on in the show, they are joined by Cliff Selbert, the founding partner of Selbert Perkins Design, a...
2021-04-2943 min
Keep the Flame AliveOlympic Gold Medalist Connor Fields on BMX RacingConnor Fields, reigning Olympic gold medalist in BMX racing, joins us to explain just how BMX is more organized chaos and less demolition derby. And he shares some interesting details about the BMX course we'll be watching at Tokyo 2020. Follow Connor on Twitter, Insta and Facebook, and check out his website. What are our TKFLASTANIs up to this week? We've got news from: Modern pentathlete Samantha Schultz Figure skater Meagan Duhamel Paralympic swimmer and long jumper John Register -- check out his foreword contribution to Bespoke Bodies: The Design and Craft of Prosthetics, by...
2021-04-2354 minDesign is EverywhereLaunching a Movement: Graphic Design for Social Change, Live ShowIn the first of our monthly Design is Everywhere live shows, Sam Aquillano learns how designers can be agents of change through their work. He is joined by Yvette Perullo, Co-Author of Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice, and Co-Founder and Partner at Re-nourish, a nonprofit that works with designers to understand and advocate for design decisions that center people and the environment. Later on in the show, they are joined by Jessie McGuire, Managing Director at brand design studio, ThoughtMatter. Together they discuss her experience designing for socially progressive causes while spearheading creative projects and their advice for...
2021-03-1842 min
The Why I NetworkWhy I Became a Product Designer with Sam AquillanoSam is the founder of the Design Museum Everywhere and is the founder of one of the top 50 design podcasts - Design is Everywherehttps://designmuseumfoundation.org/Social: @designmuseumeverywhereContact: info@designmuseumfoundation.orghttps://www.thewhyinetwork.com/Social: @WhyiNetworkContact: kojo@thewhyinetwork.comSupport the showPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/whyinetwork
2021-01-0315 minDesign is EverywhereDesign is Everywhere PreviewIn this preview episode, hosts Sam Aquillano and Liz Pawlak introduce each other and discuss their vision for Design is Everywhere — the new podcast from Design Museum Everywhere.
2020-04-1307 min
Context039 - Derek CascioWe sat down with Derek Cascio, an Industrial Designer and Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT). Prior to doing that, Derek worked for a wide range of companies as a designer: Philips, Staples, and Hasbro as a design manager on the Marvel product line. He also started an organization called Design Museum Boston with Sam Aquillano in 2008 which just celebrated its 10 year anniversary. During our interview we discussed our shared love for Transformers, how toys shaped our childhood, but also how it shaped our professional development and who would’ve thought this was possible?—only in design. Derek was...
2020-03-2240 min
The EPAM Continuum Podcast NetworkThe Resonance Test 4: Sam Aquillano of Design Museum FoundationOn Election Day 2016, Sam Aquillano, Executive Director of Design Museum Foundation, biked over to Continuum’s Boston studio for a conversation with Jon Campbell, our steadfast SVP of Experience and Service Design. Get an earful of these two talking excitedly about the value of public design and the challenges of designing in public. In this freewheeling conversation, the guys rethink everything from the civic meeting process to improving the voting process to starting up, of all things, a print magazine about design—*in 2016!* They even reminisce about how our two orgs once worked together in an early, trailblazing experiment in tran...
2016-11-281h 01
Purpose Rockstar: Daily Career Stories including Grammar Girl and Gretchen Rubin207: Building a museum without walls - Sam AquillanoSam Aquillano is founder of museum without walls for and by designers, Design Museum. We chat about how a teen who sold pirated CDs and built a lawn mowing mini empire became a founder of one of the most unique experiential organizations in the world. Read more→
2016-04-2236 min
The Angry MillennialEp26: Sam AquillanoOn this episode of The Angry Millennial, we chat with Sam Aquillano, engineer turned non-profit co-founder of Design Museum Foundation. Originally based out of Boston, now opening offices in Portland, OR & San Francisco, CA. We chat about disruption models booming presence the last few years (think Uber + Airbnb - own no assets, yet rule it all), the importance of using the tools at your disposal to build things - even the local library, how bootstrapping help him & his co-founder not go into huge debt launching DMF, the importance of unstructured play for a child's development, the fun structure of going...
2016-01-2546 min
The Angry MillennialEp00: Welcome to The Angry Millennial ShowHey guys and welcome, to The Angry Millennial Show! This episode will help guide you on the binge-listen adventure you’re about to embark on. My name’s Jose Rosado and I’m your show creator + host. Now what we’ve attempted to do from the start of the show was to give our listeners engaging, thought-provoking content to help them on their own creative journey, but as fans ourselves, we knew that we needed to ask questions our guests have never been asked before, dive into topics deeper than ever before, + get to know our guests better than ever before...
2015-10-1804 min
Teenage Entrepreneur with Jordan AgolliTE 32: Sam Aquillano: Design Museum Boston**Babson Entrepreneurship Forum Special**
Sam Aquillano is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of Design Museum Boston.
The DMB produces public exhibitions, events, and programs to show the who, why, and how behind the things we see and use everyday. DMB aims to highlight the positive impact good design and innovative thinking can have on literally everything.
In this episode you will learn:
How to teach your team to read your mind.
How to delegate and not be a control freak.
The answer to "What does a CEO do everyday?"
How Sam got the o...
2014-12-0844 min