Name: Episode 50: What Democracy Looks Like by The Observatory in The Observatory
Duration: 32 min 49 s
Description: The Women’s March, Parker Palmer, The Young Pope, Oreos, Girl Scout Cookies

Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand on design, current events, and current enthusiasms.

The Observatory

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

Tattoos, Type 1 diabetes, ID cards, taking MBA students to the art gallery, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Rothko, Mike Mills, the 2017 Citizen Designer Pledge

Episode 49: My First Tattoo

The Women’s March, Parker Palmer, The Young Pope, Oreos, Girl Scout Cookies

Episode 50: What Democracy Looks Like

Behance Design Trends of 2017, George Nelson’s How to See, Michael K. Williams, W.E.B. Du Bois’ infographics

Episode 51: Vintages

Peter York on autocrat chic, Sunday in the Park with George, BBC interview with Robert Kelly, Jessica Dimmock’s The Convention

Episode 52: Dictator Style

#trypod, Dan Brown cover contest, Design in Tech, writing for designers, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, Wes Anderson’s Bar Luce

Episode 53: On Writing Well

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

@the-observatory-1: Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand on design, current events, and current enthusiasms.

@designmatters with Debbie Millman: thought-provoking conversations with industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers, and educators. 

Episode 50: What Democracy Looks Like

The Observatory

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