Jessica Helfand

Michael Bierut|Audio

Knockout

Are boxing and photography hipster pleasures? Are they past their prime, or do they have a bright future?

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 81: American Royalty

Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle; Tom Wolfe as design writer, Benedict Cumberbatch as Patrick Melrose; the scent of Play-Doh

Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project

Dreaming

Dreaming is how we allow the unconscious mind to improvise.

Michael Bierut|Audio

September Issues

Google’s new logo, design thinking, and lessons from Oliver Sacks

Michael Bierut|Audio

From the Archive: Danny Meyer and Paula Scher

Danny Meyer is the founder of Shake Shack. Paula Scher designed its graphic identity.

Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project

Sharpening

As an isolated activity, sharpening’s got its own powerful syntax. It’s the art of paying attention.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Six

The dogs of Paris, an umbrella whisperer, the astonishing power of typography, and more.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 89: Headsets and Holograms

VR typography, Glenn Gould hologram tour, Paul Rand ephemera auction, Robert Venturi, Mark Lamster’s Philip Johnson biography, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colors

Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project

Feeling

To feel fragile is to feel human, which is to recognize your inherent vulnerability, not your presumed invincibility.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Brute Force

Behind the Bataclan, pigeon pathologists, Design Thinking at IBM, the Coke bottle at 100, Michael Gross

Michael Bierut|Audio

S5E3: Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton is the curator of contemporary design at Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 127: Fear and Longing

Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters; Hrishi Hirway and Mike Errico; The Quiz Broadcast; Shakespeare and Co. Project