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This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with graphic designer slash rock star John Flansberg about growing up in a modernist house

about designing posters and album covers for his band They Might Be Giants and about

the band's eclectic originality.

If you're confident that what you're doing is actually 51% original,

you can actually get bolder about what the other 49% is.

Here's Debbie Milman. My guest today might be one giant. John Flansburg is half of the

indie rock duo they might be giants. He and his friend John Linnell have had a 30 year career making

wonderfully quirky pop songs about science, history, geography, and of course,

Thordid Love.

Along the way, they've picked up a few Grammys,

a bit of Platinum, and some extraordinarily devoted fans.

Flansburg is more the outgoing. some extraordinarily devoted fans.

Flansburg is more the outgoing half of the duo,

and he's also the one with an arts degree from Pratt.

If you own a They Might Be Giant's album,

chances are Flansburg pasted up the cover art

himself. He's also directed music videos for Ben Folds 5, Soul Coughing,

Harvey Danger and Frank Black.

And, like a true artist, he doesn't mind being

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