Episode 55: Sea and Sky

HBO’s Big Little Lies is based upon Liane Moriarty’s novel, set in Australia, but the adaptation is filmed in Monterrey, California. Jessica says:

The choice to position it on a coast struck me as a really beautiful creative decision, because It’s set against the openness of sea and sky and it’s about the closedness of a community.

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NPR, Julian Koenig, Well-Known Adman, Named Earth Day

Diana Budds, Nixon, NASA, and How the Federal Government Got Design

The Atlantic, Why Nixon Created the EPA

William Ruckelshaus, A Lesson Trump and the E.P.A. Should Heed

Kickstarter for 1977 EPA Graphic Standards System reissue

Design and Exclusion conference: audio and transcripts

This American Life, Lindy West confronts her troll

Big Little Lies on HBO

Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty interviewed in the Guardian

Five Came Back: book by Mark Harris, series on Netflix

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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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