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Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 63: August Recess
The Doomsday Clock, the color blue, selfie sticks, graphic designers on screen
Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 62: Keepin’ It Nasty
Cursing, Anthony Scaramucci, the alt-right’s shit aesthetic, Tony Fadell and Silicon Valley regrets, John G. Morris, Donald Trump draws the Manhattan skyline
Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 61: Font of Corruption?
Pakistan, Donald Trump Jr., default fonts; Calibri, Courier, Hobo, Cooper Black; Silicon Valley corporate headquarters; subway signage mystery; The Turnaround; Steven Colbert’s Figure-It-Out-a-Tron
Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 59: Signatures and Circles
Egregious email signatures, circular Twitter avatars, Wonder Woman, Demetri Martin’s Dean
Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 58: The Family Circus
Green lights for the Paris Climate Accord, NY Times Magazine comics issue, Lynda Barry in Family Circus, knitting as spycraft, Jim Russek’s poster for Our Town
Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 57: Communion and Commerce
A record-breaking Basquiat; design, life coaching, and therapy; Thomas de Monchaux reviews Wendy Lesser’s biography of Louis Kahn; a neural network names paint colors
Jessica Helfand|Events
The Next Stage
It’s time to distance ourselves from performance at the podium, time to move away from hero worship and hubris. And it starts by changing the conversation.
Michael Bierut|Audio
S2E12: Dana Arnett + Patrick Palmer
Dana Arnett is a vice chairman and a founding partner of VSA Partners, a branding and marketing company based in Chicago. Patrick Palmer leads the strategy practice at VSA.
Michael Bierut|Audio
S2E11: Khoi Vinh
Khoi Vinh is a principal designer at Adobe.
Michael Bierut|Essays
Thinking Like a Book Designer
The various roles a designer plays in designing a book; historian, architect, author, humanitarian, performer, editor, and mechanic.
Michael Bierut|Audio
S2E10: Robert Brunner
Robert Brunner is a founder of Ammunition, a design firm based in San Francisco. He has designed products from the Apple PowerBook to Beats by Dre headphones.
Michael Bierut|Audio
S2E9: Ashleigh Axios
Ashleigh Axios is the design exponent at Automattic and a former creative director for the White House’s Office of Digital Strategy.