Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut|Essays

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mentor, Or, Why Modernist Designers Are Superior

Does a strict upbringing make you a better designer?

Michael Bierut|Audio

Doors and Perception

Bathroom signs, MBA students, Mozilla and open logo design, The Commissar Vanishes, Masters of Sex

Michael Bierut|Essays

The Typeface of Truth

What are the implications when Errol Morris declares the typeface most likely to induce credulity is Baskerville?

Michael Bierut|Audio

Memory Loss

The Napalm Girl photo on Facebook, 9/11 out of context, Apple stores and the iPhone 7 launch, the Doctor Strangelove trailer, Wiener-Dog, Pantsuit

Michael Bierut|Audio

Food for Thought

Samsung v. Apple, the International Style v. capitalism, Sausage Party, mozzarella sticks

Michael Bierut|Audio

Passing the Torch

Olympics, cursive handwriting, NASA’s secret art studio, gun sales on Facebook, #firstsevenjobs

Michael Bierut|Essays

In Praise of Slow Design

Is there a such a thing as slow graphic design? A look at 80 years of barely perceptible design changes at The New Yorker.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Rough Sketches

Trump-Pence, Clinton-Kaine, Black Lives Matter, The Four Seasons, mapping the brain, the video essay

Michael Bierut|Audio

Border Control

Brexit, borders, naming, Fiorello La Guardia and his airport, robot dogs, though leadership, Snapfax

Michael Bierut|Essays

All That Jazz: Posters by Niklaus Troxler

Niklaus Troxler’s jazz posters can be viewed as a single, self-initiated project that has developed over five decades, a body of work with few precedents.

Michael Bierut|Distinctions

Introducing Design at Yale School of Management

What does it mean to teach design in a business school?

Michael Bierut|Essays

Seymour, An Introduction

In a world of design consultants, information architects, and experience planners, Seymour Chwast is something refreshingly old-fashioned: a commercial artist.