Debbie Millman has been in the design business for more than half of her life. At the international brand consultancy Sterling Brands, where she is a partner, she has designed some things she is really proud of and lots of products that you have likely purchased in a big supermarket or drug store chain. This makes her very, very happy. Debbie loves to write and you can see the fruition of these efforts in the column she writes for Print magazine, on her own blog, and on the design blog Speak Up. She is also writing two books: the first, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer will be published by Allworth Press in October; and the second, Essential Principles of Graphic Design is being published by Rotovision in May 2008. She also likes to talk. This is most evident in the classes she teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, the lectures she gives around the country as a National Board member of the AIGA, and on her weekly internet talk show, Design Matters.