Paula Scher, Emily Oberman and Michael Bierut, Celebrating 50 Years of Pentagram

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

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Arts, Design

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Design royalty Paula Scher, Emily Oberman and Michael Bierut join this special live episode to celebrate and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the legendary, multi-disciplinary, independently owned design studio, Pentagram with a new, two-volume book, PENTAGRAM AT 50: LIVING BY DESIGN.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio-Collective.
0:07.5	No matter what it is, that competition is so ceaseless
0:12.0	and punishing to a certain degree,
0:15.5	but it's also the thing that kind of again keeps us moving.
0:18.5	Maybe, maybe the glue is that the sort of person
0:21.5	who's a good pentagram partner
0:23.0	is one who's capable of feeling like shit on a regular basis.
0:28.0	That's really it.
0:31.0	From the Ted Audio-Collective,
0:32.5	this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
0:38.0	For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers
0:40.5	and other creative people about what they do,
0:42.5	how they got to be who they are,
0:44.0	and what they're thinking about and working on.
0:47.0	On this episode, Debbie talks shop
0:49.0	with three partners at pentagram,
0:51.0	the story design firm.
0:53.0	I think that going in, but then once I start,
0:55.5	I sort of think that's the problem.
0:58.0	Yeah, and that's...
1:00.5	This interview took place at the How Design Live Conference
1:03.5	in Nashville, June 6, 2023.
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