The Observatory
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand of Design Observer discuss design, current events, and current enthusiasms.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand of Design Observer discuss design, current events, and current enthusiasms.
Language:
English
Episodes
Episode 134: Fast and Furious
9/24/2020
With Gail Bichler: Remote creative direction for the New York Times Magazine, editorial design fine art, and motherhood; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Fast and the Furious, Yale Mental Health Symposium
Duración:00:29:16
Episode 133: Urban Reckoning
9/3/2020
With Allison Arieff: The Magic of Empty Spaces, cities during COVID-19, Solving All The Wrong Problems, harvesting honey, The Good Fight
Duración:00:31:30
Episode 132: Back to School?
8/13/2020
With Lee Moreau: How to teach during the pandemic, robust design, jigsaw puzzles, The New York Times Spelling Bee
Duración:00:32:27
Episode 130: Spatial Justice
7/16/2020
With Bobby C. Martin, Jr.: rebranding Champions Design; football in Washington; demands for change at design schools; cooking during quarantine.
Duración:00:33:27
Episode 129: Spatial Justice
7/2/2020
A conversation with De Nichols about cities, monuments, and designing for community.
Duración:00:33:38
Episode 128: Decoding Luxury
6/11/2020
Guest host Avery Trufelman talks about Articles of Interest, clothing, luxury; Larry Rosenberg’s Breath by Breath; Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu
Duración:00:30:01
Episode 127: Fear and Longing
5/21/2020
Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters; Hrishi Hirway and Mike Errico; The Quiz Broadcast; Shakespeare and Co. Project
Duración:00:31:21
Episode 126: Screens and Dreams
5/7/2020
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration; Unorthodox; My Brilliant Friend; The Affair; Anil Dash on the dangers of social media; Anna Wiener on Silicon Valley; quarantine dreams
Duración:00:32:11
Episode 125: Zoom Aesthetics
4/23/2020
Zoom aesthetics and COVID-19; Kyle Chayka on minimalism; Deborah Berke on shared spaces; Jessica Salfia’s poem “The First Lines of Emails I’ve Received While Quarantining”; Megan O’Grady on artistic recluses
Duración:00:32:43
Episode 124: That Thing You Do
4/9/2020
Making art and design during the COVID-19 pandemic; Christoph Niemann and Daniella Zalcman; Adam Schlesinger; spec scripts for Larry David
Duración:00:32:42
Episode 123: Closing Doors, Opening Doors
3/26/2020
Looking at COVID=19: Flattening the curve, Washington Post designers Harry Stevens on visualizing social distancing, Alissa Walker on how dots are people, Stephen Sondheim at 90
Duración:00:35:55
Episode 122: At Arm’s Length
3/12/2020
COVID-19, social distancing, Luō Dàwèi’s One Thousand Families project, hiring product designers, Eric Rosenberg’s prop designs for The Plot Against America, Joanne McNeil’s Lurking
Duración:00:31:06
Episode 121: Love and Squalor
2/27/2020
With guest host Alissa Walker of L.A. Podcast: Barbara Kruger at Frieze Week; Destination Crenshaw; homelessness; urban design competitions, Rose Lyster on air travel; Molly Young on garbage language
Duración:00:33:44
Episode 120: Federal Style
2/13/2020
The Trump Administration’s draft executive order Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again, the rise of the blur, a CBS brand book at the California Antiquarian Fair, Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley
Duración:00:33:17
Episode 119: Soldiers and Generals
1/31/2020
Kyle Chayka’s “The Longing for Less”; minimalism; Hugh Weber joins Design Observer; Don Norman on collaboration; Maggie Gram on design thinking; the death of Mr. Peanut; Fanchon & Marco
Duración:00:30:47
Episode 118: Excelsior!
1/16/2020
Andrew Cuomo’s old-school political graphics; ridiculous subway ads, real and fake; Vaughan Oliver, John Baldessari, Sonny Mehta
Duración:00:29:49
Episode 117: Truth and Yogurt
1/2/2020
Christmas cards, the Charles and Ray Eames collection, Didones, the Chobani effect, Hong Kong protest art, a dog who plays Jenga, Uncut Gems.
Duración:00:31:34
Episode 116: A Decade in Politics, A Year in Culture
12/12/2019
101 political images of 2010s; plus Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror; Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me; Beck’s Hyperspace; Underworld’s Oblivion with Bells; The 1619 Project podcast; Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin?; Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story; Steve Bannon’s American Dharma; Fleabag Season 2; Chernobyl; Anni Venti in Italia at the Piazza Ducale in Genoa; Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum; Vecchio Amaro del Capo; BrewDog’s Nanny State; and Athletic nonalcoholic beer.
Duración:00:32:50
Episode 115: Thick and Blunt
11/27/2019
Donald Trump’s handwriting; Michael Bloomberg, design patron; Jessica Helfand’s Face: A Visual Odyssey; Victor Papanek’s Design for the Real World; Heather Dewey-Halborg’s DNA portraits; Bulgarian socialist graphics
Duración:00:28:32
Episode 114: Kids Today
11/15/2019
Painting on photographs, artists v. designers, the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, Richard Hollis designs for the Whitechapel.
Duración:00:33:36