Episode 44: In Dreams

On this episode, Michael and Jessica start off talking about a thread of tweets by Marcin Wichary, a vacationing designer who stumbled into a technology museum filled with antique typewriters in a Catalonian provincial capital. Reading Wichary’s story was like watching someone else’s dream, and Michael and Jessica share their own dreams about collecting and wonder.

Also, they consider why Wichary, who works for Medium, choose to lay out his story 140 characters at a time — and how Twitter is a platform for lyrical beauty as well as toxic tweet storms.

Also discussed:

El Museu de la Tècnica de l’Empordà

Twitter is killing off Vine

Vines: How to make steak tartare; Back at it again at Krispy Kreme

An open view of Grand Central

comp notebook Kickstarter campaign

Martin P, Impromptu thoughts on Comp Book

Boston Globe on The B-Side by Errol Morris

Elsa Dorfman’s web site

Lena Groeger, Disenfranchised by Ballot Design

Grilli Type, GT America

Transparent, Season 3

New York Times obituary for Elaine Lustig Cohen

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By Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.