Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
November 26, 2014
The Observatory: Dollars and Change
On this episode of The Observatory, Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand discuss the midterm election and currency design. Plus Jessica imitates a London cabbie, and Michael nails the pronunciation of our sponsor, MailChimp.
Also mentioned and worth looking at:
- The November 6, 2014, cover of Time featuring Mitch McConnell and Shepard Fairey’s response
- Travis Purrington’s redesign of the U.S. Dollar
- Snøhetta remakes Norwegian currency
- Norway’s new passport
- Marvin Heiferman on the slipperiness of photography at Paris Photo
- Jody Rosen on The Knowledge, London’s taxi test.
- Legible London
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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.
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