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Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio

December 23, 2014

The Observatory: Our Favorite Things

On this episode, Jessica Helfand talks about her Paris 140 series, and Michael Bierut describes his 100 Day Project.

They also talk about some of the cultural highlights of the year, including:

  • The renovated Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • The Philippe Apeloig show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
  • My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff. (See J. D. Salinger’s cover for Hapworth 16, 1924)
  • The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
  • Ida
  • Whiplash
  • Finding Vivian Maier
  • Six by Sondheim

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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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