Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
October 8, 2015
Basic Human Needs
On this episode, Jessica and Michael discuss how IKEA is designing shelters for refugees, and Facebook wants to provide refugees with Wi-Fi from flying drones. Michael observes:
Private companies are stepping into the breach to launch initiatives that I think fifty years ago, sixty years ago would’ve been thought to have been the purview of governments or international organizations.
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By Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.
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