The Observatory Newsletter

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 78: Delete Your Account

Deleting Facebook, AI and images, Tree Change Dolls, Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, listing for 450 W. Grixdale

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 77: Cape to California

Cape Town’s water crisis, Los Angeles’ first chief design officer, Lubalin 100, Walter Dorwin Teague’s Design This Day

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 76: Taking License

A proposal to license designers, Black Panther, Legally Black movie posters, NASA’s Pluto site

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 75: Dressed and Obsessed

Phantom Thread, John Perry Barlow, Cleveland Indians to retire Chief Wahoo, Obama portraits, riotous schnauzers

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 74: Eyes and Hands

Cræft by Alexander Langlands, doctors and design, Sean Tejaratchi’s LiarTown, a pair of iRi NYC sneakers

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 73: Fire, Fury, Playtime

Eva Hagberg Fisher on dressing for sexual harassment proceedings, Oprah at the Golden Globes, Print goes digital, Fire and Fury pop-up book, Jacques Tati’s PlayTime

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 72: Out With the Old

New York Times Magazine, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, favorite podcasts, Wormwood, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 71: A 40,000-point 9

Ivan Chermayeff and American modernism, Kurt Andersen, Vincent Scully, Ivo van Hove’s The Fountainhead, Brothers in Arms

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 70: When Art Imitates Life

Monstrous men, magazine covers and editors, Arranged!, Prongles

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 69: Fixes and Facelifts

Fixing American democracy, Snøhetta’s plan for Philip Johnson’s AT&T Building, Internetting With Amanda Hess, Synoptical History of the Civil War

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 68: Learning from Muriel Cooper

Muriel Cooper, Now You See It, Harvey Weinstein and #metoo, kilonova explosion, Lin-Manuel Miranda interviews Stephen Sondheim

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 67: Guns N’ Tote Bags

Visualizing gun violence after Las Vegas, Louis Vuitton v. My Other Bag, tote bags, Helen Rosner on Olive Garden, Call My Agent!, Netflix in French