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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

Steven Heller|Essays

Robert Massin

Steven Heller remembers Robert Massin.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 120: Federal Style

The Trump Administration’s draft executive order Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again, the rise of the blur, a CBS brand book at the California Antiquarian Fair, Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley

Steven Heller|Interviews

Arthur Szyk Forever Relevant!

“To call [Arthur] Szyk a ‘cartoonist’ is tantamount to calling Rembrandt a dauber or Chippendale a carpenter.”

Steven Heller|Books

The Influence of Nightlife on Design

Cabarets, cafes, and nightclubs are as essential to the development of Modern avant garde art and design movements as are galleries, salons, and museums.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 116: A Decade in Politics, A Year in Culture

101 political images of 2010s; plus Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror; Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me; Beck’s Hyperspace; Underworld’s Oblivion with Bells; The 1619 Project podcast; Esther Perel’s Where Should We …

Steven Heller|Essays

Belonging: Perfect Harmony or Branding Trope?

"I realized I had never considered the existential idea of belonging and, in fact, I really was curious to explore what it means to belong — and to even get mired in some of its disturbing contradictions."

Steven Heller|Essays

Let’s Give Thanks for Books About Magazines

If you love print magazines and bemoan their demise Steven Heller has seasonal gift suggestions for you.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 114: Kids Today

Painting on photographs, artists v. designers, the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, Richard Hollis designs for the Whitechapel.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Return of Spitting Image’s Savage Puppet Satire

“Now you and I know very well satire only scratches the surface ... That may not be much ... but it is something ... It beats the hell out of swearing at the TV set.”