Jessica Helfand

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.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S2E8: Teddy Blanks

Teddy Blanks is a co-founder of CHIPS, a Brooklyn-based design studio, who specializes in film titles.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 54: Egos, Eggs, and Half an Onion

Twitter’s default avatar, border wall submissions, Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad, School for Justice, the Uline catalog

Michael Bierut|Audio

S2E7: Grace Jun

Grace Jun is the executive director of Open Style Lab, a nonprofit that aims to make fashion accessible to people with disabilities.