Maurice Cherry is a skilled creative professional with over 20 years of experience across tech, design, media, publishing, and entrepreneurship. He is the Founder and Creative Director of Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA. As an active podcaster since 2005, he has hosted several podcasts and works as a creative strategist and development editor.

Our editorial staff put together 15 Design Matters conversations worth listening to this month. They are writers, artists, comedians, filmmakers, and musicians. Activists, mentors, educators, and journalists. They all sat down with Debbie Millman and revealed essential truths about their creative sources, what moves them, where they came from, and much more.

“Every experience that we have as humans, honestly, are all designed experiences, whether it’s the chair that we’re sitting in, the pen that we’re writing with or the clothes that we wear,” says Maurice Cherry, an award-winning designer, strategist and podcaster in Atlanta.

I just want to put out good work into the world, and if I can, use my skills, creativity, knowledge, and experience to help make it a reality.

In this episode, Maurice Cherry reflects on the early days of the web and how it was a time of great opportunity for anyone with an idea. The origins of his award-winning Revision Path podcast and how 10+ episodes are now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture permanent collection. Maurice shares his insights on how to be a successful creative, the importance of community, and how he wants to be a renaissance person. Also, the challenges and opportunities that come with being a person of color in the design industry, and how to create change within the industry.

What a blast it was to talk to him. Enjoy!