Maria Giudice on Purpose
02/16/20 • 29 min
My guest today is Maria Giudice. Maria founded Hot Studio, a design consultancy that was acquired by Facebook in 2013. After leaving Facebook, she served as VP of Design at Autodesk. In this conversation, Maria reveals how she found her purpose, and shares with us the exciting next stage of her career.
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Show notes
- Maria Giudice on LinkedIn
- Maria Giudice on Facebook
- Hot Studio
- Richard Saul Wurman
- Information Architects by Richard Saul Wurman
- Cooper Union
- Fortran
- Massimo Vignelli
- The yellow pages
- CCA
- Cartography
- Macintosh IIci
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Times New Roman
- Helvetica
- Mosaic web browser
- Netscape
- Frank Frazetta
- Italic script
- The Speedball Textbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Pen and Brush Lettering by Joanne Fink
- Autodesk
- Clement Mok
- The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
- Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design by Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland
- Rise of the DEO posts in Medium
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My guest today is Maria Giudice. Maria founded Hot Studio, a design consultancy that was acquired by Facebook in 2013. After leaving Facebook, she served as VP of Design at Autodesk. In this conversation, Maria reveals how she found her purpose, and shares with us the exciting next stage of her career.
Listen to the full conversation
Show notes
- Maria Giudice on LinkedIn
- Maria Giudice on Facebook
- Hot Studio
- Richard Saul Wurman
- Information Architects by Richard Saul Wurman
- Cooper Union
- Fortran
- Massimo Vignelli
- The yellow pages
- CCA
- Cartography
- Macintosh IIci
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Times New Roman
- Helvetica
- Mosaic web browser
- Netscape
- Frank Frazetta
- Italic script
- The Speedball Textbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Pen and Brush Lettering by Joanne Fink
- Autodesk
- Clement Mok
- The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
- Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design by Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland
- Rise of the DEO posts in Medium
Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links.
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- The Information Architecture Conference
- Web Directions Product
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The Informed Life - Maria Giudice on Purpose
Transcript
Jorge: Maria, welcome to the show.
Maria: Thank you. I’m so happy to be here with you, Jorge.
Jorge: Well, I’m very excited that you’ve agreed to come on. So, for folks who might not know you, how do you describe what you do and what you’ve been doing; your trajectory?
Maria: Boy, that’s a good question because I feel like I keep changing and growing. So, I’ll go from one end, from being a child.
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