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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Barry Blitt

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Debbie talks to New Yorker celebrated cover artist Barry Blitt about where his ideas come from.



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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective.

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Audio Collective.

0:04.0

Hey listener, a quick favor.

0:08.0

We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond.

0:14.0

Please visit survey.

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PRX.org slash design matters to take the survey today.

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That's survey.

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PRX.org.

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slash design matters.org. slash Design Matters.

0:24.4

Thanks.

0:25.4

Design Matters with Debbie Millman is on summer break and will return with new interviews

0:30.0

this fall.

0:31.2

In the meantime, we're replaying some episodes. This one with Barry Blit was recorded in December 2017. This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from design matters with Debbie Milman from design observer.com.

0:45.0

For 13 years now, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative types about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about.

0:56.0

On this podcast, Debbie Millman talks with the New Yorker magazine's celebrated cover artist Barry Blit about where his ideas come from.

1:03.8

Well, you want to have your pen on the page.

1:06.8

I mean, there's times when I'll walk around and try and think of things,

1:09.0

but three-quarters of the battle is scribbling.

1:12.2

Here's Debbie Milman. For cartoonists and illustrators

1:15.3

there's no bigger stage than the cover of the New Yorker. Since 1992

1:20.4

Barry Blit has contributed more than 100 covers and countless illustrations to the magazine.

1:27.0

He is a master of political satire and he is fully engaged in the Trump era with devastating caricatures of the people in power.

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