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Steven Heller|Essays

Reverse Migration: A Growing Pain

I am a rock ribbed, original New Yawka.

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Steven Heller|Essays

Lou Rogers: Suffragist Cartoonist

Rogers was an outspoken reformer, using her voice and body as weapons in the battles for the vote and other fundamental human rights that were denied women.

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Kathleen Meaney|Essays

From A to B (Africa to Bauhaus)

We can trace African innovation through modern art, but how about through modern design?

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Jessica Helfand|Audio

Episode 130: Tackling History

With Bobby C. Martin, Jr.: rebranding Champions Design; football in Washington; demands for change at design schools; cooking during quarantine.

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Steven Heller|Interviews

Jerseys To Remember

Since 2013, in the wake of the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, the New York based photographer and filmmaker Raafi Rivero  has designed a series of basketball jerseys with the team name “Unarmed.”

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Kathleen Meaney|Essays

A Breath of Fresh Architecture

What takes our breath away is both the thrill of life and life threatening.

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Steven Heller|Interviews

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die

New York-based (former musician, banker, and collector) Andrew Krivine is arguably the most passionate Punk music devotee in the world.

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 124: That Thing You Do

Making art and design during the COVID-19 pandemic; Christoph Niemann and Daniella Zalcman; Adam Schlesinger; spec scripts for Larry David

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Debbie Millman|Audio

Marilyn Minter

Debbie talks with artist Marilyn Minter about bringing her skills to the political arena, the ups and downs of her career, and the use of sexual imagery in her work.

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Steven Heller|Interviews

The Plot Against America

Steven Heller interviews veteran prop designer Eric Rosenberg, who designed David Simon’s mini-series of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America for HBO.

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Jessica Helfand|Audio

Episode 121: Love and Squalor

With guest host Alissa Walker of L.A. Podcast: Barbara Kruger at Frieze Week; Destination Crenshaw; homelessness; urban design competitions, Rose Lyster on air travel; Molly Young on garbage language

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Steven Heller|Essays

Robert Massin

Steven Heller remembers Robert Massin.

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Cinema

Alexis Haut

‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison

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Democracy

Sheena Medina

What now?

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Aimee Allison

Make a Plan to Vote ft. Genny Castillo, Danielle Atkinson of Mothering Justice

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Alexis Haut

Black balled and white walled: Interiority in Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”