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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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.