The Observatory

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The Observatory episodes

May 19, 2016 The Good, the Flat, and the Ugly
Instagram, rainbows, digital brutalism, Design: The Invention of Desire, the Freewrite.
33 min
May 04, 2016 Prisons and Paradise
Solitary confinement, virtual reality, design thinking for prisoners, Drew Hodges’s Broadway, The Paradise, Prince’s unpronounceable glyph
32 min
April 20, 2016 High Maintenance
Innovators and maintainers, Bernie and Hillary, mapping and infrastructure, algorithms and Rembrandt
29 min
April 07, 2016 Shapes and Japes
Corporate design humor from Mic Drop to bland.ly, photoviz, remembering Zaha Hadid
26 min
March 30, 2016 Crowd Control
Tay, Boaty McBoatface, New Zealand, emoji, and the madness of crowds
26 min
March 10, 2016 The Logosphere
The Met and the logosphere, designing with scientists, the Clinton-Sanders graphics race
32 min
February 24, 2016 Magic on the Page
Matthias Buchinger, Beyonce, Mohawk Superfine at 70, Umberto Eco
26 min
February 03, 2016 Guys and Dolls
Barbie and Rey, food and design, 30 years after the Challenger disaster
29 min
January 21, 2016 Working-Class Heroes
British art schools, Bowie, Alan Rickman, the State of the Union, cannabis chocolate
33 min
January 07, 2016 State of the Chart
Data visualization, The Big Short
24 min