10 Best Industrial Design Podcasts

1. Learner Centered Design Education

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What if teaching isn't about delivering knowledge, but about co-creating meaning? In Learner Centered Design Education, Soumitri Varadarajan reflects on 35 years of teaching industrial design. These episodes are not lessons—they are provocations and quiet acts of unlearning. Influenced by Paulo Freire—whose work Soumitri encountered at 25—this podcast invites educators to rethink authority, embrace uncertainty, and imagine classrooms as shared worlds of discovery.MORE Producer/Network Soumitri Varadarajan
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2. Groundbreakin

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The Groundbreakin is a cutting-edge podcast that explores the journeys of top designers, creative entrepreneurs, and thought leaders in the design industry. Hosted by Dipaq aka Q, a Creative Director and Founder of Syqi , this podcast is your go-to source for insider insights and actionable advice from the world's top design experts. With a focus on fresh topics and engaging discussions, each episode is designed to help you stay ahead of the curve and build a successful career in the ever-evolving design landscape...MORE Email ****@groundbreak.in
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An Industrial Design podcast.
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 21Instagram 3.8K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. minor details

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Minor details is an industrial design podcast hosted by Nicholas Baker and James Connors. They share their opinions and stories about living and working as industrial designers in New York City.MORE Producer/Network Nicholas Baker & James Connors
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 196 Avg Length 75 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. Obsessed Show

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Obsessed Show host Josh Miles interviews some of the hottest designers—from branding and illustration, to industrial design and architecture, to learn what makes them tick.
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 112Twitter 332 Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. RISE Inside

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Welcome to the 'RISE™Inside Podcast,' hosted by Justin Starbird and powered by RISE™Robotics. Listen as host Justin talks to experts from the RISE™ Team about topics relating to mechanical engineering, industrial design, commercialization, and innovation.True collaborations work when ideas are integrated at inception to solve significant problems. RISE™Inside brings together how the team continues to work with great folks to commercialize ideas.RISE™Robotics has developed a completely new, fluid-free, electric alternative to hydraulic cylinders for heavy equipment and machinery...MORE Host Justin Starbird
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

7. The Variable Design Podcast

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The Variable Design Podcast is an innovator's guide to all things related to product design, industrial design and manufacturing. It's a collection of interviews with industry experts who share their uncensored advice in order to help the next generation of designers and entrepreneurs take their ideas from conception to fruition. Episodes cover aspects of industrial design, graphic design, marketing, engineering, and manufacturing to give listeners key insights on how to successfully develop and sell a product in today's marketplace. MORE Host Russ Cluff
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8. The Design Dialogues

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A series of conversations with the world's most interesting and innovative designers, working across interiors, architecture, furniture, product, industrial design and more. A podcast from Design Anthology.MORE Producer/Network Design Anthology
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 20Facebook 22.8KTwitter 1.2KInstagram 12.4K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. The Process

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The Process is a podcast created by best mates and industrial designers, Dylan Torraville and Zak Watson. Dyl and Zak are picking up microphones to chat about their experiences in design school, personal projects and navigating the creative process. Oh yeah, and there will be some sweet interviews with other designers and friends too.MORE Hosts Dylan Torraville, Zak Watson
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

10. The Icarus Idea

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Better aim too high and fail than aim too low and… also fail. Five years of studying 'really hard' and then what? We are finding out what graduated Industrial Design Engineers are doing with their career. From creating a million dollar start-up to designing revolutionary toilets. Also fun for non IDE-studentsFollow for inspiration: @the_icarus_ideaContact: ****@gmail.comMORE Host Twan van der Ham
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Instagram 555 Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact