Podcast appearances and mentions of michael beirut

The great Debbie Millman is the guest of the second special live episode of Parola Progetto live at Salotto in New York.Designer, writer, educator, artist, curator, Debbie is internationally known as the host of the podcast Design Matters, the absoulte benchmark for all design podcasts, and of course the inspiration behind Parola Progetto.We discuss about success and fear of change, long lasting projects and the need to be fast, touching on politics, education and the role of AI in design. Debbie also introduces us to the essence of creativity, and the importance of courage over confidence.The links of this episode:Salotto, a hub for cultural research and production run by NYC-based Italian creative professionals https://salotto.nycDesgin Matters, Debbie Millman's podcast https://www.designmattersmedia.com"Love means never having to say you're sorry." a quote is from the movie "Love Story" (1970) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_(1970_film)The Apple "1984" commercial by Ridley Scott https://youtu.be/ErwS24cBZPc?si=NJ1_bj79-ysV-V6dThe comic strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Starr,_ReporterThe magazine Commercial Article, where Debbie wrote about Brenda Starr https://www.commercialarticle.com/product/16-dale-messick-brenda-starr“Love letters to what we hold dear” by Debbie Millman at TED https://www.ted.com/talks/debbie_millman_love_letters_to_what_we_hold_dear"Design Counts", Michael Beirut's postcards which highlighted the importance of design using the butterfly ballot from the 2000 U.S. presidential election. https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/05/04/how-michael-bierut-debbie-millman-and-special-guests-design-and-style"Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body", by Roxane Gay https://roxanegay.com/books/hunger"Love in the Time of Cholera", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera

Vishaan Chakrabarti is the founder and creative director of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), and the author of "The Architecture of Urbanity." He has worn many hats - in development, architecture, government and academia, and brings this experience to bear in his public advocacy work. -- Intro: "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie Show Notes: - The "Joy" Thing with Tim Walz - Obama > Biden Infrastructure Bill - Is it really Rural vs Urban, or Suburban vs Everyone Else? Is it Rurbanity? - UC Berkeley analysis of carbon footprints of cities vs rural vs suburban - The mortgage interest tax deduction - The Federal gas tax - Out-migration from expensive to affordable cities - not the suburbs - Railroad suburbs: Montclair and Maplewood NJ - Carbon pricing - Jane Jacobs' idea that cities formed around trade - James C. Scott - The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber & David Wengrow - Alternate civilizational origin stories at the Venice Biennale - The places we go on vacation all have lousy parking - The energy source powering cars is not really the issue - it's the degree to which we design our cities around cars - or not - Copenhagen - the urban planning Mecca - but where are the immigrants? - InterOculus, PAU, Columbus, Indiana - "Because they've been told their definition of excellence is to design spaceships to be built by slaves in the sand, that's what architects are off doing. And so of course they're not at the adult table influencing policy. We can't relegate ourselves to the kiddie table by talking about irrelevant things and then complain about the chicken nuggets." - "We don't help everyday people visualize the power of policy change as well as we could." - "I think we are at a moment where it is really, important for people who understand the physical world to sit down and be able to speak the language of government." - "Designing policy is a form of design." - New York Times collaboration with PAU = NYC = Not Your Car - Gov. Kathy Hochul's cancellation of congestion pricing - Robert Caro, The Power Broker - "The city's permanent government" - the "deep state" might actually be OK - "New York, New York, New York," by Tom Dyja - Accepting imperfection as a necessary democratic outcome - instead of going Roark on imperfection and blowing it up - Uber's hiring of Bradley Tusk, Bloomberg's third mayoral campaign manager - Alejandro Aravena - an architect literally being the architect of the new Chilean constitution - Norman Foster - adviser to the United Nations on rebuilding Ukraine - Book design by Michael Beirut and Britt Cobb at Pentagram Outro: "Don't Worry About the Government," by Talking Heads

The Season 8 Premiere of Meet the Creatives with Michael Beirut, Partner at Pentagram. Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. He worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates before joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990. His clients at Pentagram have included The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Robin Hood Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Mastercard, Bobby Flay Bold Foods, Princeton University, the New York Jets, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Playwrights Horizons. As a volunteer to Hillary Clinton's communications team, he designed the H logo that was ubiquitous throughout her 2016 presidential campaign. Bierut served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of AIGA National. He also serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and the Library of America. Bierut was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003, and was awarded the profession's highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in 2006. He was winner in the Design Mind category at the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. In 2016, he was the Henry Wolf Resident in Graphic Design at the American Academy in Rome. Bierut is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art and a lecturer in the practice of design and management at the Yale School of Management. He is a cofounder of the website Design Observer and is the co-editor of the five-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design published by Allworth Press. Michael's book 79 Short Essays on Design was published in 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press. A monograph on his work, 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 was published in 2015 by Harper Collins. His collection of new essays, Now You See It, was published in fall 2017.

Visit our Substack for the transcript, links, and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/hamish-smyth Design systems have been on the minds of those of us in the software industry for more than a decade now and for good reason. To create large scale software with a consistent experience, standards are needed to guide contributors.  This is not a new problem, though. Before software designers created design systems, brand and print designers created design standards to guide creative collaboration. We had a chance to talk with Hamish Smyth, co-founder of the popular tool Standards, and we relished the opportunity to nerd out with him on this subject. We spoke with Hamish about what design standards are and how they differ from design systems, some examples of famous standards like Massimo Vignellli's NYC Subway map and NASAs Standards Manual, and also about what Hamish learned about getting corporate buy-in from working with famed designer Michael Beirut from Pentagram. Bio Hamish Smyth is the co-founder of Standards and partner at Order. Prior to co-founding Order, Hamish worked as an associate partner the New York office of Pentagram Design under partner Michael Bierut. In 2014 he co-founded Standards Manual, an independent publishing imprint focusing on the preservation of graphic design history. *** Subscribe to DB+ to get episodes a week early and ad-free. Plus, every month, you're invited to exclusive AMAs (Ask Me Anything) with big names in design and tech, from companies like Nike, Netflix, and the New York Times who will answer your questions directly. Early bird subscribers get 50% off for the first three months. Visit designbetter.plus to learn more and subscribe. *** Visiting the links below is one of the best ways to support our show: Methodical Coffee: Roasted, blended, brewed, served and perfected by verified coffee nerds

There are graphic design greats, then there are graphic design LEGENDS like Michael Bierut.Partner at Pentagram design in NYC for 25 years, Beirut is the master of iconic logos and flexible branding systems for globally recognized brands, like MIT, Mastercard, Verizon and Saks Fifth Avenue. So who better to bestow words of wisdom upon the graphic design world than him?In this episode of The Angry Designer, the bearded brutes unpick the mastery behind Michael Beirut, taking you through 10 of his best pieces of advice for graphic designers.You won't want to miss this one! 

Armin is the man behind Brand New, a blog providing opinions on the best and worst brand identity work. This week we talk through his experience running the site, discuss his stint at design powerhouse Pentagram under Michael Beirut, and get serious about people on stage telling US what to do. Armin Vit: Brand New - Instagram Me: Website - Instagram LogoArchive: Website - Instagram Subscribe now with code “MAGICWAND” and get a further 50% off. Follow Magic Wand

Diego Segura is a design apprentice at Collins, an independent strategy and brand experience design company with offices in New York City and San Francisco. In this episode, Diego describes how he discovered graphic design, his decision to drop out of high school, and what it's like being an apprentice at a prestigious branding and design company. This is the second part of a two-part series; the episode begins with a continuation of my conversation with Brian Collins in part one. Brian shares his side of Diego's story—how Diego first got in touch, how he became a full-time employee, and why, on one of their early days together, Brian took him out to run errands throughout New York City. After a short intro from Brian, the interview with Diego begins. I was eager to get Diego's backstory—it's fascinating (and inspiring) to hear how he got from a small town outside Austin, Texas to Collins in New York City. Along the way, he emailed with Michael Beirut, did multiple remote internships, and wrote The Dropout Manifesto (a chronicle of [my] crazy junior year). We also talked about the importance of agencies and design studios looking outside the traditional design schools, like SVA and RISD—schools Diego wasn't even aware of when he was in high school—for new talent. I'm telling you now: If I was out to start a studio today, I would practically build it solely on young ambitious people led by a really great creative director, head of design. Because the level of talent who reaches out to me personally, because they see I'm the design apprentice on the [Collins] website—the level of talent is insane. They are so, so, so good. ... There's no doubt they can add value. It's just, they didn't come from the same places that all the other designers came from, and we've gotta be okay with that." – Diego Segura To learn more about Collins visit their website. You can learn more about Diego (and see some of his work) at diegosegura.me and you can follow him on Twitter. If you're interested in checking out Diego's book, The Dropout Manifesto, it's available on Amazon, as is his second book, To a Man Much Like Myself.

As a partner at Pentagram and a world-renowned, award-winning graphic designer and design critic, Michael Beirut describes corporate identity as a bespoke suit that expresses the true character of the “wearer” or company. In this episode, Beirut explains how he works within professional services firms to build excitement around design ideas. Beirut goes on to describe how he and other designers build trust when they are hired, and how he often collects creative ideas and suggestions from those within the professional services firms he works with. He also describes his own creative process and the books and artists that have inspired him along the way. Hosts: Lavinia Calvert & Deborah Farone Co-Producer: Katelin Zweifel-Korzuchin & Brit Nowacki  Audio Engineer: Nikki Rasmussen Editor: Jessica Penfield

Have you found your creative well has run dry of inspiration? Especially recently? This week we have two projects to share with you which will help inspire and re-invigorate your art. The 100-day project was started by the designer Michael Beirut and has since become an annual free global art project for creatives. Just pick an action, do it consistently for 100 days and share it. Today we meet Lindsay Thomson who has been involved in co-ordinating the project since 2017 We talk through some tips on how to pick your project - maybe choosing one of the three key areas projects often cover: play, practice or produce. We also discuss how specific to make it, how figuring out your motivation can really help, what your starting point might be, and how to find time. The project kicks off on 31st Jan and runs until May 10th. What to do now: 1. There are some great FAQs and tips on the website page where you can also sign up for the newsletter. http://the100dayproject.org 2. Go to @dothe100dayproject account on Instagram to share one of their recent posts to announce your commitment :-) Look in the Stories for a Q&A session done earlier this month 3. Think of your project and share using #the100dayproject and your own personal invented hashtag Artist, psychologist and creativity coach Rachel Davis, who some of you may know from her AJ visits, will be offering free support, accountability, inspiration and humour through her IG account @racheldavisart.bayarea as she embarks on her third #100 day project. Rachel knows this terrain really well and is ready to help you stay on the creative track, even when self doubt, boredom and frustration show up, as they inevitably will. Follow #100daysupportwithrachel to keep up with what she’s offering and so she can comment on your journey. Mentioned: Don't forget to join the free Art2Life workshop HERE which starts on 15th February. These online lessons are a great guide for you to learn a new approach to making personal, powerful and authentic art. If you follow and learn from these we are happy! Follow and find Lindsay @lindsayjeanthomson “Does this sound like fun? I'm not sure. But some years, up to two dozen students start the assignment. And some years, more than half drop out before the end. Everyone starts with high hopes. But things get repetitive by day ten. By day twenty, no matter what you've decided to do, it feels like you've been doing it forever. And bridging the end-of-year break is always a big challenge. But the students who get past day thirty or forty tend to get in a groove that will take them through to the end. Here's a sampling of what's been done through the years, including some of my favorites. Read about the original Michael Beirut project here: https://designobserver.com/feature/five-years-of-100-days/24678 Find our websites: www.alicesheridan.com www.louisefletcherart.com Follow us on Instagram: @alicesheridanstudio @louisefletcher_art "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

'Hijack Your Mentors' with Michael Beirut, Partner/Owner at Pentagramwww.MeettheCreatives.org www.linktr.ee/meetthecreativesny 

Back in 2012, in the basement of the New York Pentagram office, Jesse Reed, along with his colleague Hamish Smyth, unexpectedly came across a piece of design history - the original New York City Transit Authority graphic standards manual, a modernist masterpiece designed by Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda.This was the moment that lead to the pair founding Standards Manual, an independent publisher focused on archiving and preserving artefacts of design history to make them available for future generations.In this episode, Ian interviews Jesse Reed to learn more about the origins of Standards Manual, lessons learned from preserving the historical documents, as well as behind the scenes lessons learned working with design legend, Michael Beirut. We also discover how Jesse co-founded the Brooklyn-based design office, Order.Show notes and episode transcription can be found here: https://logogeek.uk/podcast/standards-manualsBook & Resources MentionedNew York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual - Buy on Amazon UK | Amazon USEnvironmental Protection Agency Graphic Standards System - Buy on Amazon UK | Amazon USNASA Graphics Standards Manual - Buy on Amazon UK | Amazon USThe Worm - Available for Pre-orderParks - Buy on Amazon UK | Amazon USIdentity: Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv - Buy on Amazon UK | Amazon USUnit Editions Manuals 1 and Manuals 2.Logo Package Express 2.0.

Best of MTC: Michael Beirut, Owner & Partner at Pentagramwww.Linktr.ee/MeettheCreativesNY

'Hijack Your Mentors' with Michael Beirut, Partner/Owner at Pentagram www.Linktr.ee/MeettheCreativesNY

Tiffany Parra, Recruiting Coordinator at LinkedIn Tiffany's Links: https://www.instagram.com/tiffanyparra_/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyparra/ https://www.instagram.com/flexwithfood/?hl=en Meet the Creatives seeks to bridge the gap between entry-level creatives and top talent from companies like Google, Facebook, Nike, VaynerMedia, Airbnb, Twitter, Huge, Pentagram, Adobe and more. Meet the Creatives has over 200,000 downloads in over 65 countries. It has featured guests including Paula Scher, Debbie Millman, Malika Favre, Seth Godin, Michael Beirut, Jon Contino and more! Learn more - www.Linktr.ee/MeettheCreativesNY Tiffany's Podcast 'Work in Progress' - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/work-in-progress/id1358146305?mt=2

Last time on the podcast we had the legendary Paula Scher chatting with us, and today, we have her equally-esteemed designer and partner at Pentagram, Michael Beirut. Michael’s been with Pentagram for 27 years, and on this episode he talks about the office’s bittersweet move from their location of 22 years to a new office […] The post Season 2 / Episode 8: Michael Bierut appeared first on Grits & Grids®.

Michael Bierut - Outward Perception and The Wizard of OZ

'Hijack Your Mentors' with Michael Beirut, Partner/Owner at Pentagram

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 01 Intros & Big Announcements + IBM, What The Font, & Michael Beirut

On this episode of Meet the Creatives, I Skype with Michael Bierut from his Pentagram office in New York. We talk about design, life and even discuss how the Wizard of Oz can be used as a metaphor to understand branding. Subscribe on iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-the-creatives/id1252503888?mt=2 Subscribe on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtb7w0TeVHdGGJ4KK5F3aZg/videos Follow on Medium ► https://medium.com/@rob_86719 Rob Johnston is a New York based Designer whose work focuses on brand growth through digital, print and environmental design. He is also the founder of Meet the Creatives; a podcast which seeks to bridge the gap between entry-level Designers and top creatives from companies like Google, Facebook, Nike, Airbnb, Pentagram and more. Learn more about Rob ► www.RobJohnston.Design www.MeettheCreatives.Design www.RobJohnston.Design www.Facebook.com/MeettheCreatives www.Twitter.com/MeettheCreative

Making stuff automatically makes you better. Music and links from this episode http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nuno_Adelaida/none_given_1662/Nuno_Adelaida_09_Sofia_30 (Sofia 30 by Nuno Adelaida) http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Captive_Portal/Catching_-_EP/02_Internally_Grateful_feat_Josh_Bche__Jonee_Whatley (Internally Grateful (feat. Josh Büche & Jonee Whatley) by Captive Portal) http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sebon/The_Pet_-_EP/01_The_Pet_Original_Mix (The Pet by Sebon) Line-by-line notes INTRO You've probably heard of Jerry Seinfeld before If not though, he's an actor, comedian, and a writer He made the sitcom Seinfeld, with Larry David The reason I mention him  Is because he once told his method for becoming a better comedian It was simple really Write something every single day And write a cross on a calander for every day you do it You've got one goal Don't break the chain And never stop This is Ask a Designer Anything, and I’m Craig Burgess PLAY MID SONG I absolutely adore Seinfeld idea And it's something I've long since subscribed to myself I'm not as prescriptive as seinfeld I don't do something every day Unless I'm doing a silly 365 day challenge that is But the idea of doing things regularly for yourself in your spare time is something I'm mega passionate about You've probably noticed It's a running theme through my podcasts Because I think, especially for designers, designing something every day is a really easy way to get better without even trying When I look back at my first ever 365 day challenge When I designed a poster a day for 365 days I did it because I wanted to get better at making vector graphics and using illustrator It automatically worked, because of the volume of work I was producing The same idea applies to these podcasts Because I'm making one every day I'm automatically getting better at audio production, writing scripts, talking into a mic, reading scripts, the list goes on This is the very thing Seinfeld was getting at Just by writing every day, he got a little bit better every day  By the end of 365 days, he was a lot better The reason most peope don't do this Is 2 reasons 1, it's hard to stay consistent and to not just come home from work and watch TV And 2, most people don't like making rubbish stuff Because when you're never stopping, and making something every day, most of what you make will be rubbish And that's part of the reason for doing it too, to start to accept that sometimes your ideas aren't good, but you have to try them anyway It stops self limiting beliefs This is why Michael Beirut promotes this idea too, in a smaller way, for the students he teaches at university  He gets students to perform a design operation every day for 100 days One that you can complete every day so you don't give up It teaches you to work faster It teaches you to come up with ideas faster And it teaches you to never stop If I could get every design student in the world to make something every day for 365 days  I would Because I know from personal experience that they'll be so much better of a designer when they're finished Even Gary Vaynerchuk talks about a similar concept Of never stopping, and doing something every day So, there's 3 successful people here who have all discovered something that definitely works to make you a better designer Jerry Seinfeld, a very successful comedian Michael Beirut, a very successful designer And Gary Vaynerchuk, a very successful businessman Do I need to carry on?  Is that enough convincing for you to wake up tomorrow and start plotting your 365 day challenge?  The concept of never stopping is so simple And so powerful at the same time But it's a concept and ideology that so few people bother to even attempt If you

Debbie Millman is currently the Editorial and Creative Director of Print Magazine, but she has an insane track record going back decades: she’s the author of 6 books including “How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer,” a prolific design writer in outlets like NYT, Fast Company, and Design Observer, chairs the Masters In Branding program at SVA (co-founded with Steven Heller), and hosts a long running podcast called “design matters” which has done 265 episodes over 10 years with legends and icons like Michael Beirut, Stephen Heller, Chip Kidd, Massimo Vignelli, Isaac Mizrahi and Malcolm Gladwell. Today on the podcast, * She says that “confidence is overrated.” This is something I know a lot of you struggle with and I love how she talks about this. Confidence is created by repeatedly doing something, and if you’ve never done something before how could you have confidence? Confidence - in her view - is the easy part. It’s finding the courage to do the thing when you DON’T have confidence that is the gamechanger. * The importance of teaching: why Milton Glaser said it’s the most important thing he ever did and why Debbie has always made it a big focus in her own career-- because as she says, when she teaches, the students teach HER * Why even hyper-achieving legends struggle with feelings of unworthiness and what the levers are for coping with it. This is a nearly universal thing that’s very rarely talked about, and it’s super important that you put your own mechanism in place to keep it from sabotaging your success. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

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. The Reflex[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Jessica Helfand: The Reflex Blue Show #145 appeared first on 36 Point.

On this episode of People of Purpose, Johanna speaks to Michael Beirut about his early career years at Vignelli Associates, life at Pentagram and the secrets from his 86 notebooks - including "love is the answer." Michael shares his thoughts on what it means to write and how New York has shaped him as a designer and as a person.

What sparked Massimos interest in design. His fascination in Architecture and reminisces about the past and how he met his wife. How they built there company internationally. Michael Beirut :: St. Peter's Church :: Slow Food :: File Download (15:34 min / 14 MB)