Jessica Helfand

Michael Bierut|Audio

S4E3: Arthur Cohen

Arthur Cohen is CEO and co-founder of LaPlaca Cohen, a strategy, design, and marketing firm for the cultural world.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S4E2: Kevin Bethune

Kevin Bethune is vice president of Strategic Design at BCG Digital Ventures.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 75: Dressed and Obsessed

Phantom Thread, John Perry Barlow, Cleveland Indians to retire Chief Wahoo, Obama portraits, riotous schnauzers

Michael Bierut|Audio

S4E1: Stella Bugbee

Stella Bugbee is the editor in chief and president of New York Magazine’s The Cut.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 74: Eyes and Hands

Cræft by Alexander Langlands, doctors and design, Sean Tejaratchi’s LiarTown, a pair of iRi NYC sneakers

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Annals of Small Town Life: The Logo Stops Here

Working with Florence Knoll, Lucille McGinnis convinced her husband, Patrick B. McGinnis, that the New Haven Railroad needed a new logo. Enter Herbert Matter, Swiss-born designer, photographer and Yale professor whose own education was …

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 73: Fire, Fury, Playtime

Eva Hagberg Fisher on dressing for sexual harassment proceedings, Oprah at the Golden Globes, Print goes digital, Fire and Fury pop-up book, Jacques Tati’s PlayTime

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 72: Out With the Old

New York Times Magazine, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, favorite podcasts, Wormwood, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 71: A 40,000-point 9

Ivan Chermayeff and American modernism, Kurt Andersen, Vincent Scully, Ivo van Hove’s The Fountainhead, Brothers in Arms

Michael Bierut|Audio

S3E11: Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris is editor at large of the Aperture Foundation and the author of A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S3E10: Randy Hunt

Randy Hunt is the head of design at Artsy and the former VP of Design at Etsy.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 70: When Art Imitates Life

Monstrous men, magazine covers and editors, Arranged!, Prongles