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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 82: Constitutional Sans

The president’s lawyer uses Comic Sans, speculative design, Let the Sun Shine In, crazy walls.

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 79: 1968 at 50

Nixon-Humphrey, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The White Album, Laugh-In, LSD… and the meaning of anniversaries

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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

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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

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 76: Taking License

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

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 75: Dressed and Obsessed

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

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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

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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

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 72: Out With the Old

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

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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

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 70: When Art Imitates Life

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

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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

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