Name: Episode 47: True Colors by The Observatory
Duration: 30 min 10 s
Description: Pantone’s color of the year, Time’s Person of the Year, Arrival, The Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog, Seinfeldia

resist! jej! I was about to paint my house... I'll give a second thought :)

Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand discuss the The Grid, which uses artificial intelligence to design websites, the history of grids, and the unlikely success of coloring books for adults.

Episode 10: Inside the Lines

A trip to San Francisco reminds Jessica that design can mean something very different in technology companies than it did for “classically trained graphic designers of a certain generation,” i.e. her and Michael.

“Culturally, what has shifted is that they work in teams and they don't have the same kind of understanding of one person making one thing at one time.”

Episode 11: East Meets West

TV party: Search Party, The Crown, Fleabag, Crisis in Six Scenes, Highston, I Love Dick, Daniella Zalcman, the fallout shelter sign

Episode 46: TV Party

Pantone’s color of the year, Time’s Person of the Year, Arrival, The Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog, Seinfeldia

Episode 47: True Colors

Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand of @designobserver discuss, design, current events, and current enthusiasms.

Episode 47: True Colors

The Observatory

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