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Michael Bierut Wins National Design Award
Michael Bierut has won the Design Mind Award in this year’s National Design Awards presented by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
“The Design Mind Award recognizes a visionary who has affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research and scholarship,” states the NDA release. “Bierut’s ability to articulate and deconstruct the design process has raised the consciousness of an entire field and sparked a national dialogue.” Bierut is a cofounder of Design Observer and his book Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design was published last year by Princeton Architectural Press. (And he deejayed the NDA After-Party in 2006.)
Bierut’s fellow 2008 NDA laureates include Scott Stowell for communications design, Antenna for product design, Tom Kundig for architecture design, Ralph Rucci for fashion design, Rockwell Group for interior design, Olin Partnership for landscape design, Google for corporate achievement and Charles Harrison for lifetime achievement. Bruce Nussbaum and Michael Sorkin were finalists in the Design Mind category. The National Design Awards program “seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation and lasting achievement.” The award will be presented in a ceremony at the NDA gala on 23 October.
Announcement coverage: The New York Times, Design Observer
Font Selection ‘08
Michael Bierut remarks on John McCain’s use of Optima in a group critique for the Times’ Campaign Stops. Of the parsing of campaign logos, Michael says, “In a campaign season that seems to have an endless appetite for minutiae, I’d rather talk about the candidates’ graphic design tastes than, say, their sex lives!”
Michael also recently commented on the branding of Barack Obama in a piece on NPR.
Previously: Probama, Obama Wins
Michael Bierut and Marian Bantjes Go Rococo
The Seduction symposium poster designed by Michael Bierut and Marian Bantjes for the Yale School of Architecture is currently on view at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as part of its Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730–2008 exhibition. The show examines the lasting impact of the Rococo period in design of the last four centuries; the poster, with the sinuous lines of Bantjes’ calligraphy, is one of twelve objects chosen to represent the 2000s. The exhibition remains on view through 6 July 2008.
Michael Bierut at @issue: Design and Business Conference
Michael Bierut is to speak at the @issue: Business and Design Conference slated for 29 April at the New York Times Building’s TheTimesCenter in New York City. Bierut will appear with New York Times VP David Thurm and Gensler principal Ed Wood to discuss the visual identity of the Times’ new headquarters, for which Pentagram designed the graphics, signage and wayfinding. Other conference speakers include Brian Walker, CEO of Herman Miller; Nancye Green, CEO of Waterworks; Joe Mansueto, CEO and founder of Morningstar; and Gael Towey, Chief Creative Officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; among others. Registration information here.
Together with the Corporate Design Foundation, Kit Hinrichs of Pentagram San Francisco and Hirasuna Editorial founded the journal @issue and continue to design and produce it as well as to organize the annual conference.
Michael Bierut, Michael Gericke and Paula Scher at the Museum of the City of New York
As part of its Spotlight on Design series, the Museum of the City of New York will host a discussion with Michael Bierut, Michael Gericke and Paula Scher about what it takes to design for institutions and corporations in one of the most visually competitive cities in the world. Museum curator Donald Albrecht moderates. Wednesday, 16 April from 6:30 pm at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. Tickets and information here.
On the Boards: ‘The Atlantic’
Michael Bierut’s upcoming redesign of the Atlantic Monthly is announced in the New York Post.
Probama
Andrew Romano of Newsweek’s Stumper blog interviews Michael Bierut about Barack Obama’s winning campaign graphics. “He’s the first candidate, actually, who’s had a coherent, top-to-bottom, 360-degree system at work,” says Bierut.
Obama Wins
Michael Bierut comments on the campaign logos of the 2008 presidential candidates in “May the Best Logo Win,” a piece by Karrie Jacobs in Salon. “Obama is marketing like Apple, Nike or Starbucks. He’s selling an experience. It’s all done with such skill and finesse that as a professional, I am in absolute awe,” says Bierut.
He Sings, Too
Michael Bierut sings a voicemail message for designer Joshua Levi, who won the privilege with a high bid in the AIGA/NY Holiday Party auction. (Proceeds went to the AIGA/NY Mentoring Program.) A new option in Pentagram’s menu of services? Or a 5-second teaser for 79 Short Songs on Design?
Pentagram Honored for Leadership in Pro Bono Service
Pentagram’s New York office was honored last night by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation for its work for nonprofit organizations. Paula Scher and Jim Biber were on hand to accept the honor during a ceremony held at the Harvard Club. Pentagram received the first annual “DNA” award for “its exceptional incorporation of pro bono service into its business culture.” Recent Pentagram pro bono projects include work for the Robin Hood Foundation, the Madison Square Park Conservancy, the Public Theater and the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
The award ceremony is part of a two-day Pro Bono Summit that has brought together 150 top corporate, government and nonprofit leaders to launch a multi-year campaign to dramatically increase the amount of skilled volunteering and pro bono service employees give to nonprofits and their communities. The leaders are discussing strategies for making the idea of “pro bono” as common in marketing, finance, technology, HR, logistics and other professions as it is in the legal field.
Speaking about the business advantages of doing pro bono work Scher stated: “A lot of the work we’ve done is outside, public, it’s very visible, and so clients will call us because they’ve seen the design. I can’t tell you how many jobs I’ve gotten through [pro bono work with] the Public Theater. We’re connected to virtually every cultural institution in the city. We are rewarded in recommendations; we’re included in groups where we find out information about things—it’s all very good business.”
Pro bono work has been part of the culture at Pentagram for decades as the partners and their teams donate their talents and time to enhance the design programs of cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations all over the city. “Pentagram Design is setting a powerful example of corporate citizenship that we hope other companies will follow,” said Jean Case, Chair of the Council. “Embracing a pro bono approach is good for employees, the community and the bottom line. America’s businesses have an extraordinary pool of skilled talent, and engaging corporate volunteers on a large scale could make a profound difference in the well-being of our communities and our country.”
The Council’s Pro Bono Award is given annually to six companies who are considered to be setting the standards of excellence in offering pro bono corporate skills to solve social challenges. This year’s other awardees are the Advertising Council; General Electric; Harvard Business School Community Partners; McKinsey & Company; and the Monitor Group.
Giants Win Super Bowl at Arizona Cardinals Stadium
Although our true loyalties lie with their crosstown rivals, Pentagram’s New York office was cheering on the New York Giants in their victory against the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLII. The game was the first Super Bowl to be played at the NFL’s newest stadium (now named University of Phoenix Stadium), opened in 2006 and for which Michael Gericke designed the environmental graphics and James Biber the interiors program. The structure was named by BusinessWeek magazine to be one of the most innovative sporting structures in the world and will be the home of future Super Bowls. Gericke was in attendance at the game, as was associate Don Bilodeau.
Snapshots from the event and a peek at a permanent tribute by Pentagram after the jump.
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New Work: 'Sex in Design/Design in Sex'
Designed for your pleasure: The exhibition Sex in Design/Design in Sex opens tonight at the Museum of Sex with exhibition design by James Biber and graphics by Michael Bierut. The show sets out to examine the subconscious, as well as the intended, sexual imagery in design as it is found in the objects we wear, live with and use for erotic pleasure. Design work such as Karim Rashid’s multipurpose lounger the Kairotic Karimsutra, Shiri Zinn’s quartz crystal dildo Minx and calibrated dilators by Rhett Butler of Kiki de Montparnasse are on view.
The intentionally austere exhibition design of Sex in Design/Design in Sex puts the objects in a context that more closely resembles the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture and Design galleries than the Museum of Sex’s previous exhibitions. “This is the first truly uninflected look at these beautiful and occasionally quite strange objects,” says Biber. “And they are at their best in the rather deadpan environment we created. They didn’t need any help from us to look sexy.”
New Work: Glass House Projects
Michael Bierut and Yve Ludwig have designed Projects, a brochure for the Philip Johnson Glass House annual fundraising campaign. Featuring lush color photography, the brochure was conceived to be a catalog of the various Glass House projects in need of funds that allows donors to select the project their money goes towards. For example, a donor can choose to support the restoration of the Brick House, the conservation of the site-specific Donald Judd sculpture or the revitalization of David Whitney's Succulent Garden.
The brochure, mailed to several thousand potential donors, was intentionally designed to resemble a mail order catalog in its modest size and light weight and was delivered complete with an order form and a business reply envelope for donations. "The idea was to avoid the usual pompous fundraising publication and instead do something lively, accessible and fun," says Bierut. "The prestige and historic importance of the Glass House is well established; our intention was to let people know that anyone can get involved with its ongoing restoration." Last week the piece was featured on The Moment, the New York Times style blog.
Pentagram previously designed the Glass House identity and Visitors Center.
A look inside Projects after the jump.
Michael Bierut Talks Typography with ‘The Atlantic’
In a video interview with The Atlantic, Michael Bierut talks about typography, including Stanley Kubrick’s favorite font, the cover design of The Catcher in the Rye, and the link between phototypesetting and Free Love.
The interview accompanies an article about typography by Virginia Postrel in this month’s issue.
In the Bag
In a front page article about the trend of using shopping bags as portable fashion, the New York Times slips a bag over the head of the “renowned graphic artist” who redesigned the Saks Fifth Avenue packaging. In a comparison with other luxury retailers, Saks comes out on top for giving its formerly “battleship gray bags a sleeker, black-and-white look and more durable feel.” The artist in question, renowned or not, is never identified.
‘Helvetica’ Out Now on DVD
Helvetica, the documentary by Gary Hustwit that includes interviews with Michael Bierut and Paula Scher, amongst others, is released today in a special edition DVD that boasts over 90 minutes of extended interviews with the film’s featured designers. Order from the official Helvetica site and you’ll receive two buttons and save $5 off the list price of $24.99.
The American Smile
Michael Bierut contributes an image to The American Idea, a special section in the 150th anniversary issue of The Atlantic, out now.
Marian Bantjes Wanted for Saks ‘Want It!’ Campaign
For Saks Fifth Avenue’s fall campaign, Pentagram asked the designer and typographer Marian Bantjes to create a special promotional treatment of the store’s “Want It!” theme, and to extend that treatment to 19 unlikely illustrations of fashion trends that Saks has identified for fall.
Marian was in town the week before last to help celebrate the campaign’s launch and to check out the campaign’s over-the-top installations at Saks’s flagship store. Her entertainingly exhaustive visual diary appears on her blog.
Pentagram’s art direction of the Want It! campaign extends the work that began with the launch of the new Saks identity at the beginning of this year.
Michael Bierut: The Early Years
Michael Bierut shares his student portfolio on Design Observer.
Street Fashion by Pentagram
New York Fashion Week tent graphics designed by Pentagram.
Wrapping up in New York’s Bryant Park: Pentagram’s graphics for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Using a classic axonometric map of Manhattan, Michael Bierut and Jennifer Kinon created invitations, t-shirts, banners and, of course, graphics for the event’s signature tents.
‘Helvetica’ Opens in New York
Helvetica, the acclaimed documentary by Gary Hustwit about the ubiquitous typeface that features interviews with Michael Bierut and Paula Scher, amongst others, opens today at the IFC Center in New York. The film is also running at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London through 27 September.
Selected reviews after the jump.
‘Seventy-Nine Short Essays’ Very Short-Listed
Michael Bierut’s Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design has been recommended by Very Short List. “If your main exposure to the world of graphic design consists of swapping between Arial and Helvetica in Microsoft Word, then you need to read Michael Bierut,” says VSL.
Department of Cultural Affairs
Pentagram’s work for New York cultural institutions is the focus of an article in today’s New York Sun. “When an arts institution in New York wants to reinvent or reinforce its image, very often the artistic or marketing director’s first move is to pick up the phone and call a partner at Pentagram,” writes Kate Taylor.
Michael Bierut, Paula Scher and ‘Helvetica’ at the Corcoran
Michael Bierut and Paula Scher will participate in a panel discussion at a screening of the documentary Helvetica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Thursday, 13 September from 7 pm at the Corcoran, 500 Seventeenth Street NW in Washington, DC. Details here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
Commercial runs of the film open at the ICA in London on 7 September and at the IFC Film Center in New York on 12 September. Updates here.
Michael Bierut’s Book Is ‘New York’ Approved
Michael Bierut’s Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design charts on the Approval Matrix in this week’s issue of New York magazine, sharing space—somewhere between “Highbrow” and “Brilliant”—with David Lynch’s Inland Empire, a Malcolm Lowry compendium and videos of artists’ Moleskine sketchbooks.
New Work: 166 Perry Street
Launching this month: the opening volleys of Pentagram’s campaign for 166 Perry Street, a new luxury condominium designed by Hani Rashid and Lise Ann Couture at Asymptote Architecture.
The building’s unique facade is designed to take advantage of the light, air and space of New York’s West Village, transforming dramatically throughout the course of the day and in the changing seasons. Pentagram’s look and feel for 166 Perry exploits this characteristic, and carries it into the building’s website, designed by Flat. The campaign will also include direct mail pieces, brochures, advertising and a sales office. The 166 logo is based on a modified version of Peter Bilak’s beautiful typeface Fedra Sans.
Michael Bierut and 'Helvetica' at the Cleveland Cinematheque
Michael Bierut visits his native Cleveland this weekend for a screening of the new documentary Helvetica. Michael, who is interviewed in the film, will introduce the documentary and answer audience questions afterwards. Saturday, 26 July from 7:30 pm at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11141 East Boulevard in Cleveland. Details here.
Screenings of the film—which also features Paula Scher—are scheduled around the world in the coming months, and a commercial run opens in New York on 12 September. Updates here.
Bumper Crop
Michael Bierut critiques the campaign bumper stickers of the 2008 presidential candidates in the July 23 issue of Newsweek.
Michael Bierut with John Margolies, Phil Patton at the Architectural League of New York
Photographer John Margolies will discuss the changing American landscape in a conversation with Michael Bierut and the design writer Phil Patton. Wednesday, 25 July from 6:30 pm at the Architectural League of New York, The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue in New York City. Details here.
Sign of the Times
Pentagram-designed New York Times sign recently installed on the paper’s new headquarters.
Last week, the Times Square district gained its latest sign as the logo of the New York Times was installed on the Eighth Avenue facade of its new Renzo Piano-designed headquarters tower.
But what looks like a simple sign—if a 110-foot-long logo set as a 10,116-point version of the newspaper’s iconic Fraktur font can be called simple—is actually an intricate assemblage of nearly a thousand separate custom-designed pieces, each a painted extruded aluminum sleeve a little more than three inches in diameter.
The story of how and why Pentagram came to design the sign after the jump.
Olympic Trial
Michael Bierut and several other designers compared the controversial London 2012 logo with the proposed logos of other candidate cities including Paris, New York and Moscow in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday.
Michael Bierut to Speak on WNYC Radio
Michael Bierut will be a featured guest on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show this Thursday, 5 July. The show airs from noon to 2 pm, with Michael’s segment scheduled to begin at 1:20 pm. In the New York area, WNYC is broadcast at 93.9 FM and AM 820. Online listeners can tune in to the show here.
Update: Michael’s segment posted below.
Celebrating ‘Seventy-Nine Short Essays’
Friends, family, clients and colleagues gathered in New York’s Madison Square Park Tuesday night to celebrate the release of Michael Bierut’s new book, Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design published by Princeton Architectural Press. Appropriate for the sultry summer evening, guests were served Shackburgers, hot dogs and frozen custard from the park’s popular Shake Shack. Congratulations were heard all around for both Bierut’s accomplishment and Abbott Miller’s design in which each of the book’s 79 essays is formatted in a different font.
New Work: Glass House Visitors Center and Identity
The exhibition wall of the Glass House Visitors Center features 24 monitors.
The much-anticipated public opening of Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, takes place this week. James Biber and his team designed the off-site Visitors Center for this acclaimed addition to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s family of sites. Michael Bierut and his team designed the project’s identity, promotional graphics and website .
All tours of the Glass House site, sold out until 2008, begin and end at the Visitors Center in downtown New Canaan. The center, a renovated 2,000-square-foot former truck loading dock conveniently located across from the town train station, accommodates an exhibition, on-site ticketing and a museum shop. Through the exhibition, visitors learn about Philip Johnson and the Glass House site before they take a short shuttle ride to the site where they embark on a 90-minute guided tour. After the tour, visitors return to the center where they can re-experience the exhibition with new insight.
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New Work: Yorkville Common Pantry
Peter Arkle’s charming drawings grace the walls of the pantry.
Michael Bierut and Josh Berta have designed the environmental graphics for the Yorkville Common Pantry, a New York soup kitchen sponsored in part by the Robin Hood Foundation that opens tonight. The project features a collection of 120 framed drawings by illustrator Peter Arkle on permanent display. The pantry, located at 8 East 109th Street in Manhattan, is the city’s largest, nonsectarian, neighborhood-based provider of emergency food.
A gallery of Arkle’s illustrations for the project after the jump.
Out Today: 'Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design'
Today marks the publication of Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, a collection of writings by Michael Bierut from Princeton Architectural Press.
The 272-page hardcover book brings together twenty years of essays on subjects that range from New York’s faulty “Push for Walk Signal” buttons, to the disappearance of the AT&T logo, to the implications of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire for interaction designers. Many of the pieces first appeared on Design Observer, the popular blog that Michael edits with Jessica Helfand and Bill Drenttel, including favorites like “Designing Under the Influence,” “I Hate ITC Garamond,” and “The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation!” Seventy-nine Essays also includes pieces that appeared elsewhere and pieces that have never been published in other collections, like “Waiting for Permission,” “How to Become Famous” and “Ten Footnotes on a Manifesto.”
Michael’s writing is marked by its accessibility, its wit and its almost maniacal eclecticism. For instance, a survey of the entries under the letter “D” in the book’s index turns up, among others, Jacques Derrida, Stuart Davis, design by committee, Cameron Diaz, Walt Disney, Dr. Strangelove, Mort Drucker, Marguerite Duras and W.A. Dwiggins. If you seek a design book that navigates with aplomb between French semioticians, typographers, movie stars and Mad magazine cartoonists, Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design is the one for you.
While the book has no pictures, Abbott Miller’s design provides its own form of visual interest. Each essay is set in a different typeface, and readers can attempt to make real or imaginary connections between essay subject and font selection. We can guess why the essay on AT&T is set in C.H. Griffith’s Bell Gothic (it was designed in 1938 for the Bell Telephone Directory) or why the essay about Stanley Kubrick is set in Paul Renner’s Futura (it was reportedly the director’s favorite typeface); the rationale behind other selections may be a bit more obscure, or even completely nonexistent.
Michael points out that the list cover price of $24.95 works out to less than 32 cents per essay. “Design books are luxuries, especially for students,” he says. “I hope that this one provides something for everyone, at a price that anyone can afford.”
Stolen Passport
Michael Bierut comments on the redesigned, newly icon-heavy U.S. passport in The New York Times. “There is something a little coercive about a functional object serving as a civics lesson, even a fairly low-grade civics lesson,” says Bierut.
Philip Johnson’s Glass House Opens
Homepage for the Glass House website designed by Pentagram.
Philip Johnson’s Glass House opens to the public for previews today for the first time. The iconic 1949 house and its 48-acre grounds in New Canaan, Connecticut, were bequeathed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation upon Johnson’s death in 2005.
Pentagram has designed an identity, promotional graphics, and a simple website for the project. A visitors center, also by Pentagram, will be ready in time for the site’s official opening on June 23.
Saks and the City
Saks in the streets. Photo by Elizabeth Bierut.
Alice Rawsthorn interviews Michael Bierut about the Saks Fifth Avenue identity in T: The New York Times Style Magazine. There are eight million stories in the Naked City; there are 98.14 googol variations in this identity.
“We wanted something that would be immediately identifiable across the street or through the windows of a moving subway car, and that no one would throw away, ” Bierut says. “Blowing up the logo and rearranging the fragments in a million different ways on a grid made the identity much more dramatic.”
Regardless of whether it’s on Fifth Avenue or in the Houston Galleria Mall, Saks is a definitive New York store; the grid refers to the city’s street plan, and the fragments represent the frenzy of its street life. “It’s a metaphor for the larger-than-life experiences you can find on block after block in New York City,” Bierut says. “Though I really don’t expect anyone to notice that. If a Saks customer spontaneously spots the subtext, I’ll send them a gift voucher.”
Biber, Bierut and Scher Talk for IIDA/NY
If all politics is local, then all design is identity: As part of the IIDA/NY’s Pioneering Design Series, three Pentagram partners—James Biber, Michael Bierut and Paula Scher—will talk about how they create identities for buildings, build identities for clients and generally cope with their individual identity crises. Thursday, 22 March from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the New School, 66 West 12 Street in New York. More info here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
Saks Change
Alice Rawsthorn spotlights the new Saks identity in an article about mutable corporate identities, in the International Herald Tribune. “‘Fragmenting the logo gave it energy and bravura,‘ said Michael Bierut, the Pentagram partner who led the Saks project. ‘And now we can create numerous permutations of the logo.’” (With slide show.)
‘Kink’ at the Museum of Sex
Pentagram has designed the exhibition graphics for “Kink: Geography of the Erotic Imagination,” the new exhibition opening today at the Museum of Sex. The show has been curated by Katharine Gates, the noted sex academic, whose “erotic roadmap” has been adapted by Michael Bierut and Jennifer Kinon into an interactive “playground” for the exhibition. (A companion book from ex-publisher Judith Regan has been canceled. Daily News, third item.)
The revamped roadmap after the jump. Exhibition pics coming soon!
Michael Bierut: ‘My Life as a Font’
Michael Bierut traces his life through 26 fonts in an AIGA/NY Small Talk on Tuesday, 13 March. Details here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
New Work: The Doomsday Clock
Pentagram has updated the image of the Doomsday Clock, the graphic symbol of the world’s proximity to nuclear annihilation. The clock is the emblem of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the advocacy group formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project. The redesign, developed by Michael Bierut and Armin Vit, coincides with the group’s decision to move the clock forward from seven to five minutes before midnight, or metaphorical doomsday. The move forward reflects the increasing availability of nuclear weapons and the effects of climate change. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced the two-minute move forward today.
New Work: Saks Fifth Avenue
A new identity designed by Pentagram for iconic New York retailer Saks Fifth Avenue launches on January 2, 2007. After the jump, partner Michael Bierut describes the process behind the development of an identity with more variations than there are electrons in the known universe.
New Saks Identity Announced
The new Saks Fifth Avenue identity designed by Michael Bierut is announced in WWD (subscription required) and The Daily. The complete program launches in January.
Graphic Fallout
Michael Bierut is among several designers who lament the passing of the old Civil Defense symbol—and the look of its replacement—in today’s Times.
Michael Bierut at Art of the Book
Michael Bierut will be moderator for “The Art of the Book: Behind the Covers,” a discussion of book design with Dave Eggers, Chip Kidd and Milton Glaser. Monday, 4 December at 8 pm at the 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street in New York City. Information and tickets here.
Michael Bierut, 2006 AIGA Medalist
On Wednesday, 25 October, Michael Bierut was awarded the AIGA Medal, the graphic design industry’s highest honor. The presentation was made at this year’s Design Legends Gala, held at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers in New York.
Update: Unbeige covers the medalists, the event, and the stars. Fast Company cites Paula Scher’s introduction for Michael as a highlight.
Following the jump, Paula’s remarks for Michael.
Exhibition: Esto Now
Shake Shack photographed by Peter Mauss/Esto, 2004
“Esto Now: Photographers Eye New York” features recent NYC architecture as seen by the agency’s stable of top photogs. The show was designed by Pentagram and includes the Shake Shack, our collaboration with SITE. On view from 5 January through 4 March in the Gerald D. Hines Gallery at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York.
New Work: Building the Times
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On-scene reportage: Michael Bierut and his team designed the massive installation of photos by Annie Leibovitz that documents the construction of the new New York Times Building at 41st St. and 8th Ave. The hoarding incorporates 83 photos, the largest reproduced at a whopping 14 feet by 21 feet. The team also developed the accompanying website.
More images after the jump.
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