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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, 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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