Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of Pentagram.
His book How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things,
Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and
(Every Once in a While) Change the World accompanied a 2015
retrospective of his work, which was part of the School of Visual
Art's Masters Series. Cofounder of Design Observer and cohosts of
two podcasts, he is on the faculty at Yale School of Art and Yale
School of Management and a recipient of the AIGA Medal, the design
profession's highest honor.
Jessica Helfand is a designer, artist, and writer. Educated at Yale
University, where she has taught for more than twenty years, she is
a cofounder of Design Observer and the author of numerous books on
visual and cultural criticism. The first Henry Wolf Resident at the
American Academy in Rome, Helfand has been a Director's Guest at
the Civitella Foundation and a fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation.
She will be the artist in residence at the California Institute of
Technology in the winter of 2020.
This retrospective of the website Design Observer, which radically reinvented contemporary criticism when it debuted in 2003, is perfectly timed as the design industry re-examines the state of its discourse. —Curbed
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