On this episode, Michael and Jessica start off talking about
a thread of tweets by Marcin Wichary, a vacationing designer who stumbled into a
technology museum filled with antique typewriters in a Catalonian provincial capital. Reading Wichary’s story was like watching someone else’s dream, and Michael and Jessica share their own dreams about collecting and wonder.
Also, they consider why Wichary, who works for Medium, choose to lay out his story 140 characters at a time — and how Twitter is a platform for lyrical beauty as well as toxic tweet storms.
Also discussed:
El Museu de la Tècnica de l’Empordà
Twitter is killing off Vine
Vines: How to make steak tartare; Back at it again at Krispy Kreme
An open view of Grand Central
comp notebook Kickstarter campaign
Martin P, Impromptu thoughts on Comp Book
Boston Globe on The B-Side by Errol Morris
Elsa Dorfman’s web site
Lena Groeger, Disenfranchised by Ballot Design
Grilli Type, GT America
Transparent, Season 3
New York Times obituary for Elaine Lustig Cohen
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Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati, and has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1990. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art.
Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer. A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, she is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. Jessica received both her BA and MFA from Yale University where she has taught since 1994. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.