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#brand-innovation

Design Mindset steps into episode 16 with a clear purpose: to understand how industrial designers are navigating a world where tools, platforms, and expectations keep shifting under their feet. Yanko Design's weekly podcast, Design Mindset, powered by KeyShot, is less about design celebrity and more about design thinking, unpacking how decisions get made, how stories are built around products, and how technology is reshaping the craft from the inside out.

His great-grandfather, William Grant, built Glenfiddich from scratch in the 1880s. Literally. At 47 years old, Grant assembled a cadre of workers, some of whom included his nine children. Stone was hauled from nearby hills, second-hand stills were acquired and assembled. Construction dragged into a brutally harsh winter, yet Grant and his clan got it over the finish line, with the first spirits flowing from the stills by Christmas Day in 1887.