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Design Observer

  • 29 minutes 16 seconds
    Episode 134: Fast and Furious
    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
    24 September 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 30 seconds
    Episode 133: Urban Reckoning
    With Allison Arieff: The Magic of Empty Spaces, cities during COVID-19, Solving All The Wrong Problems, harvesting honey, The Good Fight
    3 September 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 27 seconds
    Episode 132: Back to School?
    With Lee Moreau: How to teach during the pandemic, robust design, jigsaw puzzles, The New York Times Spelling Bee
    13 August 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 13 seconds
    Episode 131: Word by Word
    With Hrishikesh Hirway: games and puzzles, The West Wing Weekly, soap operas, Home Cooking.
    30 July 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 33 minutes 27 seconds
    Episode 130: Spatial Justice
    With Bobby C. Martin, Jr.: rebranding Champions Design; football in Washington; demands for change at design schools; cooking during quarantine.
    16 July 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 33 minutes 38 seconds
    Episode 129: Spatial Justice
    A conversation with De Nichols about cities, monuments, and designing for community.
    2 July 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 30 minutes 1 second
    Episode 128: Decoding Luxury
    Guest host Avery Trufelman talks about Articles of Interest, clothing, luxury; Larry Rosenberg’s Breath by Breath; Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu
    11 June 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 21 seconds
    Episode 127: Fear and Longing
    Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters; Hrishi Hirway and Mike Errico; The Quiz Broadcast; Shakespeare and Co. Project
    21 May 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 11 seconds
    Episode 126: Screens and Dreams
    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
    7 May 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 43 seconds
    Episode 125: Zoom Aesthetics
    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
    23 April 2020, 3:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 42 seconds
    Episode 124: That Thing You Do
    Making art and design during the COVID-19 pandemic; Christoph Niemann and Daniella Zalcman; Adam Schlesinger; spec scripts for Larry David
    9 April 2020, 3:00 pm
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