In this bonus episode, Professor Karen Cheng shares more thoughts about Working Girl (1988), a movie she loves. We discuss the cinematography, Harrison Ford's character, and other movies that would pair well with Working Girl for a potential double feature.

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Cheng is the author of Designing Type, a comprehensive, systematic guide to the design of letters, published by Yale University Press. Since its initial publication in 2006, Designing Type has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and it has been ranked #14 on a list of "Top 50 Typography Books of the Last 50 Years" in the journal Visible Language. As a researcher, Cheng has investigated how scientists can collaborate with designers to aid public and interdisciplinary communication. She is co-author of the widely referenced "A Brief Guide to Designing Effective Figures for the Scientific Paper" and has published on the positive impact of visual design on scientific communication and the role of visual design critiques in research practice, in the Information Design Journal. Cheng holds a Master's Degree in Design from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 1997, she worked in Brand Management at Procter & Gamble.

https://art.washington.edu/people/karen-cheng

https://vimeo.com/52861172

Designing Type

https://amzn.to/4dZeNYv

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Working Girl (1988)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096463/

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Other movies and shows discussed:

All the President's Men (1976)

Betty Blue (1986)

Delicatessen (1991)

The Little Mermaid (1989)

Miss Sloane (2016)

9 to 5 (1980)

Powers of Ten (1977)

Trading Places (1983)

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

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