Business Artistry is a podcast about creative leadership inspired by Renaissance thinking: the belief that our best ideas emerge when we combine the arts, technology, and business. In each episode, Nir Hindie speaks with artists, founders, and leaders working at the intersection of art, technology, and innovation, exploring the habits and mindsets that keep imagination alive in real organizational life. A show from The Artian, a creative leadership development atelier.
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Millard "Mickey" S. Drexler built Gap into a cultural brand, launched Old Navy, led J.Crew, and now chairs Alex Mill. He also spent 16 years on Apple's board — and played a pivotal role in shaping the Apple Store as we know it today. But this conversation isn't about the résumé. It's about how Mickey thinks. He leads through taste, instinct, and an obsessive attention to what a customer actually…
What does it take to create something that changes everything? In this episode, I sit down with Steve Hayden - the man who wrote the 1984 Apple commercial, still considered one of the greatest ads ever made. But this conversation goes far beyond that sixty seconds. We talk about where revolutionary ideas actually come from, what Steve Jobs was really like to work with, the disaster of 1985 that…
What happens when an artist imagines the future decades before the rest of the world catches up? In this episode, Nir Hindie sits down with pioneering media artist and researcher Michael Naimark , whose work has shaped immersive and interactive media for more than forty years. If you’ve used Google Street View, you’ve seen the shadow of a project he helped create at MIT in the late 1970s: the…
This episode dives into one of the most overlooked turning points in modern innovation: the moment artists and engineers decided to build the future together. Julie Martin, co-director of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), joins Nir Hindie for a deep exploration of the collaborations that shaped contemporary tech culture long before Silicon Valley existed. They unpack how the legendary…
In this episode, Andrew Zolli, Chief Impact Officer at Planet, the imagery company, speaks about the initiative he leads, “Art as Planet.” We discuss what the role of art in communicating scientific vision is? How artists have been helping in shaping an innovative culture in a satellite company, and why should small startups launch their own artist in residence? Zolli is a technologist, strategic…
In this episode, Dr. Claudia Schnugg, an author, curator, researcher, and producer of art and science collaborations, shares her knowledge about building art-science collaborations, examples of successful partnerships, and what organizations can benefit from these collaborations. Check the show notes to learn more .
In this episode, Dr. John Maeda, speaks about art and artists, the difference between art and design, why parents who sent their kids to RISD thought about innovation, and why, art and design are positioned to transform the economy of the 21st-century economy. Click here to see the show notes. Voices: John Maeda's Ted Talk David Bowie in an interview to BBC 1999
In this episode, we host Anouk Wipprecht, artist, designer, and innovator, together with Christoph Guger, the founder and CEO of GTEC. The two have been working for more than six years, creating robotic dresses and brain-computer interface devices that are extremely exciting in their thinking and innovation. Anouk Wipprecht is working in the emerging field of "FashionTech" - a rare combination of…
In this episode, Jeffrey Madoff, the founder of Madoff Productions, fashion designer, film director, and educator speaks about creativity, entrepreneurship, and how to lead creative teams. Madoff is on the faculty at Parsons School for Design, teaching a course he developed called “Creativity: Making a Living With Your Ideas”. Madoff published the book entitled based on his course. Click here for…
In this episode, Dr. Arthur I. Miller is back on our show to discuss his latest book - The Artist in The Machine. We discussed machine and creativity, why there is not enough AI in the world, and why, after all, you need creativity to stay relevant in the future. For the shownotes click here .
