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Designalyze Podcast

40 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 7 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings

On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

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Ep: 040 Ryan Salvas

September 26, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 41.5 MB

Zach sits down with Ryan Salvas, Design Director at CW Keller and Associates, to talk Design Technology, Ninja Turtle action figures, Stranger Things (spoiler alert), and whether or not sufficient time has passed to be able to listen to Metallica's Load album and not judging it against the rest of their canon.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is h...

Ep: 039 Alexis Walsh

September 19, 2016 10:30 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB

We sit down for a chat with fashion designer Alexis Walsh and talk 3D printing, the curves of the male body, the parallels between fashion and architecture, Akira, and Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials an...

Ep: 038 Madeline Gannon

September 12, 2016 10:30 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MB

Brian catches up with Madeline Gannon aka the Robot Whisperer in Boston.    SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep: 037 Jan Leenknegt

August 02, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

Jan Leenknegt, BIM Manger at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) stops by the studio to talk, BIM, Facades, Ping-Pong, Powdered Toast Man, and much more.    SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep: 036 Greg Schleusner

June 06, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 67 MB

Greg Schleusner, Director of Design Technology Innovation at HOK stops by the podcast to chat, Revit, Farming, BIM, ownership of our technology and EULAs, the bad Matrix movies, our embarrassing first concerts, Super Friends and their clothing, and Bill and Ted's Rufus. This podcast also wins the award for the longest gap between recording and airing. It was originally recording in August of 2015...   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design techn...

Ep: 035 Erik Verboon

May 17, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 52.6 MB

Erik Verboon, Managing Director at Walter P Moore's New York office. We talk about Swedish Action star Gus Firestorm, scale figures for brothels, flying with children, skyline chilli, Steven's Institute, and starting an office.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design t...

Ep: 034 Patrik Schumacher

May 09, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB

Brian scores an interview with Patrik Schumacher, Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, via a joke tweet. To everyone's surprise he agreed to sit down and have a conversation. Enjoy!   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at htt...

Ep: 033 David Rutten

May 02, 2016 10:30 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

Brian sits down with David Rutten, creator of Grasshopper at the Shape to Fabrication conference in London.     SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep: 032 Jerico Prater

April 04, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

Jerico Prater, Studio Design Technology Manager at Woods Bagot, joins us on the podcast to talk titles vs. roles, implementing agile workflows in architecture, Zach demos his Bjorn laptop idea, and Brian records all of his 'bits' for posterity.    SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn...

Ep: 031 Maddy Maxey

March 28, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 49.7 MB

Maddy Maxey, founder of The Crated drops by and talks about the integration of technology and apparel. We find out that Designalyze ranks as a two-kid Dad joke, because we are so feta. We also talk about the definitive version of Aladdin (hint it's the Sega Genesis version).  SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and...

Ep 030: William Wong

March 21, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Special episode with William Wong, Senior Building Analyst at WeWork. We mostly eat cereal and talk about the topology of food. SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep 029: Grimshaw

February 08, 2016 11:30 - 1 hour - 48 MB

Special Grimshaw episode with: David Mans - North American Computation Design Lead, Leland Jobson - Junior Designer, and Mehnaj Tabassum - Junior Designer. We Superbowl, college basketball, spoil the ending to The Mist, and some computation. SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For ...

Ep 028: Brigette Borders, Experiential Designer

February 01, 2016 11:30 - 1 hour - 50.1 MB

Brigette Borders works in total secrecy, what does she do? No one knows...We talk movies, music, teaching, and that you need to be quick if you want to make $5 in NYC.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep 027: Gustav Fagerstrom, Buro Happold

January 25, 2016 11:30 - 1 hour - 71 MB

Gustav Fagerstrom from Buro Happold stops by for a chat and drops some knowledge all over the place. What a mess.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep 026: Jen Carlile, Flux

November 23, 2015 11:30 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

Brian catches up with Jen Carlile, Co-Founder of Flux Factory at the at the Design Modelling Symposium in Copenhagen.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep 025: Ana Puyol and Elcin Ertugrul, TT CORE Studio

November 09, 2015 11:30 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB

Ana Garcia Puyol and Elcin Ertugrul stop by to talk about their work at TT CORE Studio. We talk GIS, NYC open data, VR, Spectacles, the best places to have coffee, and that weird windows 95 promo where Bill Gates thinks he's in DOOM.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design...

Ep 024: Steve Sanderson, Director of Building Intelligence at WeWork

November 02, 2015 11:30 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MB

Steve Sanderson, from WeWork drops by and goes down memory lane with Zach. We talk Virginia Tech, Steven's Institute, SHoP, CASE, and WeWork. Don't miss this one.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep 023: Billie Faircloth, Partner & Research Director at KieranTimberlake

October 19, 2015 10:30 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MB

Brian and Guest host Daniel Davis catch up with Billie Faircloth, Partner & Research Director at Kieran Timberlake, at the Design Modelling Symposium Copenhagen.   SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://designalyze.com

Ep 022: Zach Downey & Brian Ringley, of Designalyze

October 05, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB

We've come around full circle and in this episode Zach and Brian are interviewed by Designalyze's first guest Daniel Davis. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you will get all the answers to the annoying questions they've asked everyone else. Enjoy. SHOW NOTES.   On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For de...

Ep 021: Scott Crawford, Founding Member of Tech Studio at LMN Architects

September 28, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Scott Crawford visits NYC to present at the AEC Technology Symposium and fights Pope related traffic to sit down with us for an enlightening interview. We talk parametric design, Frank DK Ching, having a CNC router in your garage, and Brian learns about Spoonman. (Also, we pushed this episode out early to prove it's possible to have a quick turn-around). Enjoy. :)   SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful,...

Ep 020: Ashley Reed, Facade Designer at BuroHappold Engineering

September 21, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 50.9 MB

Ashley Reed, Facade Designer at BuroHappold, stops by the studio and talks Gatorade, Cooper Union, Thornton Tomasetti, and awkward glances with Gustav Fagerstrom between monitors.   SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at http://desi...

Ep 019: Charlie Portelli, Associate Principal Computational Design at KPF

September 14, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 49.3 MB

The elusive Charlie Portelli, Assoicate Principal of Computational Design at KPF drops by the studio. We talk Programming, Stevens Product-Architecture Lab, Atari, Beer and the fact that Charlie doesn't drink coffee...seriously? SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology...

Ep 018: Andrew Heumann, Design Computation Leader at NBBJ

September 07, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB

Today's episode is All Stroke, No Fill, as Andrew Heumann drops in for a chat. We Dynamo, Human UI, Leafcutter, Revit, and what is Grasshoppery. Andrew also gives away some sweet scripts. Check them out in the show notes. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutori...

Ep 017: Phil Anzalone, Principal at Atelier 64

August 31, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 49.4 MB

Phil Anzalone, Principal at Atelier 64 and professor at GSAPP and CUNY's Citytech, drops by the studio. We talk about teaching, tensegrity, linear algebra, Greg Lynn, and Die Hard. We also have a special guest Tim Dumatrait who came into the office to try and do work, but ended up sitting in, and providing feedback.  SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hos...

Ep 016: Stephanie Lin, Architectural Designer

August 24, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 43.1 MB

Stephanie Lin drops in to talk about architecture school, our middle names, her time at Iwamoto Scott and Aranda\Lasch, Biosphere 2, and Zach sings a bit of Guns and Rose's Mr. Brownstone. Enjoy. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us a...

Ep 015: Shane Burger, Director of Design Technology at Woods Bagot

August 17, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 74.4 MB

Shane Burger Director of Design Technology at Woods Bagot in the house! We talk Smart Geometry, Zach's computer names, Bass Guitar, Brian Exploiting Jane Austen for nefarious purposes and of course design technology. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials a...

Ep 014: Bob Yori, Senior Digital Design Manager at SOM

August 10, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 79.9 MB

Today, for you, we have, Bob Yori, Senior Digital Design Manager at SOM. This is the first of a series of episodes recorded at CASE. We talk, burgers, music, books, AEC-Apps, and well of course, digital design. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and con...

Ep 013: Francis Bitonti, Designer

August 03, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 50.5 MB

Brian visits Francis Bitonti's studio to chat design. We discuss 3D printing, fashion, custom Nike shoes, McDonald's, gold Francis Bitonti 3D Print, Dita's Gown, and why Francis only wears black. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us a...

Ep 012: Marius Watz, Artist

July 27, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB

Marius Watz drops by the studio for our last episode in DUMBO. We talk art, twitter, The Algorithm Thought Police, programming, java, processing, python, Modelbuilder, weak and strong typing, and more.    SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content ...

Ep 011: Patrick Delorey, Artist-in-Residence at Autodesk’s Pier 9

July 20, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB

A special episode today. Brian was in San Fransisco and dropped by Autodesk's Pier 9 to talk with our good buddy Patrick Delorey. Everything you've ever wondered about digital fabrication and cnc machines is discussed. Along with, Instructables, Fraggle Rock, Maritime law, 3d Printing, CAM, and David Foster Wallace.   SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is ho...

Ep 010: Toru Hasegawa Pricipal Proxy Design Studo Co-Creator of Morpholio

July 13, 2015 10:30 - 2 hours - 91.9 MB

Toru Hasegawa from Proxy Design Studio and Morpholio Project visits the studio and blows our minds. We talk robots, amazon drones, Gary Kasporov vs Deep Blue, he solves a rubik's cube during the podcast...it's a great episode. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology t...

Ep 009: Nathan Miller

July 06, 2015 10:30 - 2 hours - 93.1 MB

Nathan Miller is the founder of Proving Ground. Prior to starting Proving Ground, Nate was an Associate Partner at CASE. This was the first beercast episode so topics ranged quite a bit. We talk about Lunchbox, the proving ground, JIRA, Agile, Revit, Rhynamo, Star Wars, Parsecs, Doom, NIN, John Williams, Super Mario 3, Ghostbusters, Nightcrawler, and the differences between an X-Wing and a TIE Fighter. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology t...

Ep 008: Josh Emig Director of Digital Practice and Perkins + Will

June 29, 2015 10:30 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

Josh Emig the Director of Digital Practice at Perkins + Will stops by the studio and once again amazes us. We talk Research, Integrated Design and Construction at Auburn, Joseph Campbell, Front, Journalism School, Russian Circles, and Josh backs me up in my Star Wars as a western argument. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian ...

Ep 007: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari and Konrad Sobon

June 22, 2015 10:30 - 2 hours - 86 MB

Mostapha and Konrad stop by the office to give shoutouts and talk python. They discuss tools they've made (Ladybug, Honeybee, and Mantis Shrimp) as well as a bunch of cool stuff. Check out the show notes below. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and con...

Ep 006: Dynamo Team - Matt Jezyk, Zach Kron, & Colin McCrone

June 15, 2015 10:30 - 2 hours - 83.7 MB

Some of the Dynamo Team drop by for BBQ and we force them to talk on the podcast. We talk about Charles River Software, Ian Keough, Scratch, Nyan Cat, Dynableau, and Duckhunt and the NES zapper. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit us at...

Ep 005: Arpan Bakshi ‎Senior Sustainability Specialist at SOM

June 08, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB

Arpan Bakshi a Senior Sustainability Specialist at SOM stops by to talk High Performance Design, Performance Network, LinkedIn, Formsolver, IBPSSA, Star Wars, and Number Munchers for the Apple II.   SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials and content visit ...

Ep 004: Alex Pollock Director of Design Technology at FXFOWLE

June 01, 2015 11:00 - 2 hours - 84.4 MB

  Alex Pollock the Director of Design Technology at FXFOWLE drops in to talk about Simulex, MassMotion Flow, the octothrope, Stevens Institute of Technology, AIANY Technology Committee, and Jem and the Holograms.   SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials a...

Ep 003: John Cerone Virtual Design and Construction Coordinator at SHoP

May 25, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB

John Cerone is a Virtual Design & Construction Coordinator and a member of the Advanced Technology Group at SHoP. John Cerone stops by the DUMBO studio to talk SHoP, Robots, SNL, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, The Lawnmower Man, IGES, CATIA and the 3DEXPERIENCE. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, B...

Ep 002: Jonatan Schumacher Director of CORE Studio at Thornten Tomasetti

May 09, 2015 18:23 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Jonatan Schumacher Director of CORE Studio at Thornten Tomasetti drops by the Designalyze studio for this episode. We talk Arduino, TTX, Github, JIRA, Three.js, AEC Hackathon, and Jonatan's 23 minute commute to work. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tutorials a...

Ep 001: Daniel Davis Senior Researcher at CASE

May 09, 2015 17:03 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

Daniel Davis kicks off the first Designalyze podcast. We talk CASE, Sagrada Familia, writing for Architect Magazine, all things New Zealand, Grasshopper, SIAL, Scrum, Dynamo, Autodesk University, and love on Valentine's Day. SHOW NOTES. On Designalyze, we analyze what makes thought leaders in design technology tick through informative, insightful, and often humorous interviews. Designalyze is hosted by Zach Downey and Brian Ringley and recorded in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For design technology tut...

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