Jessica Helfand

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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

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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.

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S3E10: Randy Hunt

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

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Episode 70: When Art Imitates Life

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

Michael Bierut|Books

Holiday Book List 2017: Master Class

You don’t have to be a creative to appreciate these reads. A curious mind will do.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S3E9: Natasha Jen

Natasha Jen is a partner in the design firm Pentagram.

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S3E8: Ravi Naidoo

Ravi Naidoo is the founder of Interactive Africa as well as Design Indaba, an annual conference in Cape Town.

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Episode 69: Fixes and Facelifts

Fixing American democracy, Snøhetta’s plan for Philip Johnson’s AT&T Building, Internetting With Amanda Hess, Synoptical History of the Civil War

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S3E7: Liz Danzico

Liz Danzico is creative director for NPR, where she guides both visual design and user experience.

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S3E6: Scott Frankel + David Korins

Scott Frankel composes musicals including Grey Gardens and War Paint. David Korins designed the sets for War Paint, Hamilton, and many other productions.

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S3E5: John Maeda

John Maeda is global head of computational design and inclusion at Automattic and the author of the annual Design in Tech report.

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Episode 68: Learning from Muriel Cooper

Muriel Cooper, Now You See It, Harvey Weinstein and #metoo, kilonova explosion, Lin-Manuel Miranda interviews Stephen Sondheim