Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
December 31, 2009
Hello
Michael finally ditches his flip phone—the same model, he says, used by Adele in the video for “Hello“—and gets an iPhone 6.
Jessica considers whether the new Pirelli calendar represents progress.
What I was really hoping for is for Pirelli doing a calendar shot by Annie Leibovitz with beautiful images of men.
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By Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey. jessicahelfand.com
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