
Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
August 10, 2018
Episode 86: Home and Away
Jessica and Michael talk about inventing different ways to live, from Conrad Hilton’s “Little Americas” to a NASA competition to create 3D printable habitats on Mars.
Mentioned this week:
- Accidentally Wes Anderson website, Instagram feed
- Wes Anderson, Bar Luce, Fondazione Prada, Milano
- Space Prada Outlet, Montevarchi, Italy
- NASA, Top Five Teams Win a Share of $100,000 in Virtual Modeling Stage of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition
- Watch videos of finalists’ presentations
- The Design of Business | The Business of Design conference at the Yale School of Management, November 2-3, 2018.
- Rosie Spinks, Quartz, How Hilton Hotels Fought the Cold War With Ice Water, AC, and Burgers
- Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country
- Roger Cohen, New York Times, Airbnb Is the New NATO
- Wikipedia, the Hempel Hotel
- Anouska Hempel Design
- Marco Kaye, McSweeney’s, True Designer Baby Names (2015)
New York Times, Lella and Massimo Vignelli’s Home Seeks a Like-Minded Buyer
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