Jessica Helfand

Michael Bierut|Audio

From the Archive: Lee Moreau

Lee Moreau is Vice President of Design at EPAM Continuum, a global design and innovation consultancy based in Boston. He is also a visiting lecturer at MIT where he teaches design strategy and innovation.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E12: Jessica Helfand + Ellen McGirt

Highlights of Season 9, and new hosts Dana Arnett and Kevin Bethune.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S1E12: Teddy Goff

Teddy Goff was the digital director for Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection effort and an adviser to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 107: Scientific Advances

Science poster redesign, Eli Baden-Lasar’s portraits of his sperm-donor siblings, Jony Ive parodies, a ridiculous commercial

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 52: Dictator Style

Peter York on autocrat chic, Sunday in the Park with George, BBC interview with Robert Kelly, Jessica Dimmock’s The Convention

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 112: The Sweet Smell of Succession

Television: HBO’s Succession, The Deuce, The Politician, Face Values at Cooper Hewitt, Jessica Wynne photographs mathematician blackboards

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 55: Sea and Sky

Earth Day, the March for Science, EPA Graphic Standards Manual, Design and Exclusion, Big Little Lies, Five Came Back

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S7E7: Daniella Zalcman

Daniella Zalcman is a documentary photographer and the founder of Women Photograph.

Observed|Photos

The Russian Empire, Before Photoshop

What happens when you enhance the color saturation and shift the entire time continuum?

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 56: All the Presidents’ Libraries

Presidential libraries, Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles for Good Design 2017 Tech Industry Edition, Ai Weiwei, I.M. Pei

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S7E09: Mark Bloomfield + Shaun Borstrock

Mark Bloomfield is a jewelry designer and the founder of Electrobloom. Shaun Borstrock is associate dean for business and innovation at the University of Hertfordshire.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

A Day for Fathers

As a child, I was always perplexed by Father's Day and Mother’s Day. Why, I wondered, wasn’t there a Children’s Day?