S4E1: Stella Bugbee

Stella Bugbee is editor in chief and president of The Cut, a women’s media site published by New York magazine.

When it came time for a redesign, Bugbee explained how she wanted the new site to look:

I immediately told the designers what I really want is something that blends a literary feeling with a punk feminist sensibility that never actually says anything about fashion at all, but is very, very stylish.

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Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati, and has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1990. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art.

Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer. A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, she is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. Jessica received both her BA and MFA from Yale University where she has taught since 1994. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.

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