The fifth of our six interviews recorded at the 2015 HOW Design Live in Chicago is with Jessica Helfand of Design Observer.
We talk about Design Observer, The Observatory (her podcast with Michael Beirut), Winterhouse, magazine design, and her upcoming book. Enjoy.
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The first of our six interviews recorded at HOW Design Live is with none other than Michael Bierut of Pentagram.
We talk about logo and identity design, Command X, Design Observer‘s new podcast – The Observatory, and his upcoming book. Enjoy.
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And so DO has left its roots as a blog behind it forever, turning into, as a friend described it, another Communication Arts site. I’m to someone that sounds like a compliment.
As far as websites go, I’m much more interested in this, which is the comic I would do if I were smarter, funnier, and still working day-in and day-out in advertising. I’m appalled at myself for not discovering Business Guys On Business Trips sooner. If you want an absolutely accurate look at my life in the industry, right up until the point I decided to work for myself, you will find it there and begin to understand. After clicking through about four or five pages I was shocked to see there was not an appalling situation in there I hadn’t suffered though. Noting a regular, weekly schedule, I added it to my bookmarks, and look forward to the next chapter with a malicious glee.
For those not on Facebook and verily, for those on Facebook not on Design Observer’s Facebook Group (I’m sure there’s still a few of you), today’s strip might be a bit mysterious. For those who fit the above two descriptors, today’s strip is a looking glass back into the depths of hell from whence came a demonic bludgeoning of “Vote for the DO” spam that nearly sundered the world. I returned from a two-day trip — two days only — to find no fewer than seven e-mails in my inbox from the DO Group, and this is in addition to at least 97 others I had received in days prior. While explanations have varied, the blame is pointed steadfastly at Facebook’s own messaging system, and not the hands that typed out e-mail upon e-mail upon e-mail. Each note I received seemed to be a bit different from the last, and last I checked Facebook did not have an App to randomize text around a central message. Some have taken this opportunity to leave the DO Facebook Group, an opportunity I myself have also grasped, least I, too, should become a Gollum-like creature, hunched in the darkness, clenching the People’s Design Award, swaying slowly back and forth to its silky, seductive rhythm.
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