Walker & Company and Cultural Design
Yesterday Walker & Company’s Bevel released their newest product the Bevel Trimmer. Bevel upped the ante in their goal to become the preeminent company creating beauty and health products for people of color. The Bevel Trimmer allows the company to enter a new...
Why Brands Need A Cultural Prime Directive
Two cinematic experiences, one just released in theaters the other celebrating its 25th anniversary, have injected tremendous cultural insight and energy into the public conversation. Sundance indie favorite, Dope, directed by Rick Famuyiwa made its theatrical debut a...
Monolithic Culture: How Siloed Thinking Crushes Creativity
The end of the year usually brings good cheer, solemn reflection and future planning. Countless think pieces give us the obligatory “Best Of” list in music, film and culture in general. The end of 2014 brought a special gift to those of us who are cultural voyeurs. We...
Why if you’re talking about ROI you’re not talking about culture
I have been giving this quite a bit of thought over the last few years since I live firmly in the “culture space”. As the curator of a global conference, I spend most of my time attempting to understand the role that culture plays in our collective world. My attempt...
The Deep Dive
- Episode 256: The Great Resistance w/ Carrie Gibson April 22, 2026Philip welcomes Carrie Gibson, author of The Great Resistance: The 400 Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas. In their conversation they trace how the history of resistance has been purposely obscured and how the lessons from those ancestorial responses to slavery and oppression are relevant today. The Drop – The segment of the […]
- Episode 255: The Business of Meaning w/ Peter Spear April 16, 2026Philip welcomes. Peter Spear, host and curator of the newsletter and podcast That Business of Meaning to the show. In their conversation, they discuss all things culture and how the current marketing and media landscape make sense of the world around it. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest […]
- Episode 254: Bernie Goetz, Reagan and the Rebirth of White Rage w/ Heather Ann Thompson April 2, 2026Philip welcomes Heather Ann Thompson author of Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, The Bernie Goetz Shootings and the Rebirth of White Rage to the show. In their conversation they discuss how the pivotal Bernie Goetz shooting of four innocent Black teens alongside the conservative austerity and race baiting of the Reagan Presidency set the […]
- Episode 253: Crafting Stories of The Future w/ Betty Sue Flowers March 26, 2026Philip welcomes Betty Sue Flowers, author of Scenarios: Crafting and Using Stories of the Future to Change the Present to the show. In their conversation they discuss the power of stories and narrative to influence the stories we tell to shape our future. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his […]
- Episode 252: When Trees Testify w/ Dr. Beronda Montgomery March 19, 2026Philip welcomes plant biologist Dr. Beronda Montgomery, author of Lessons From Plans and When Trees Testity: Science, Wisdom, History and America’s Black Botanical Legacy to the show. In their conversation, they trace the intimate relationship between Black people and the natural world and our historical legacy as told through America’s trees. The Drop – The […]
- Episode 251: No One Leaves Clean w/ Yaw Ofosu-Asare March 12, 2026Philip welcomes designer Yaw Ofosu-Asare, author of No One Leaves Clean: Living, Breathing and Surviving the Post-Colonial Economy to the show. In their episode they discuss how Africa is reshaping itself in a post-colonial reality, how we navigate identity and the power of culture to understand our past and future. The Drop – The segment […]
- Episode 250: Getting Lost with Lost Maps w/ James Cheshire March 5, 2026Philip welcomes cartographer James Cheshire, author of The Library of Lost Maps to the show. In their episode they discuss the history of lost maps, the cultural relevance of maps and whether they still can help us navigate the worlds we inhabit. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest […]
- Episode 249: Culture & The Rules That Make Us w/ Oliver Sweet February 26, 2026Philip welcomes Oliver Sweet, author of The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe and Buy. In their conversation they discuss the complexity of culture and how it impacts our thinking across a variety of criteria. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest […]
- Episode 248: True Human w/ Samantha Sweetwater February 5, 2026Philip welcomes Samantha Sweetwater, author of True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of the World. In their conversation, they explore the meaning of what it is to human, how we navigate death and what future(s) can we build. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels […]
- Episode 247: Artificial Humanities w/ Nina Begus January 29, 2026Philip welcome Nina Begus, author of Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspectives on Language in AI to the show. In their conversation, they discuss the important role that humanities can play in how AI is positioned in the world. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of […]