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Peter Mendelsund on Design Matters

by Dan on December 10, 2011

Peter Mendelsund — senior book designer at Knopf, art director for Vertical Press and all-round superstar — talks to Debbie Millman on Design Matters:

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I interviewed Peter last year about his book cover design for the Knopf edition of Tom McCarthy’s novel C, and you can read a short essay I wrote about his cover for the Schocken editions of Kafka here.

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Tolstoy: Russian Life on WNYC

by Dan on December 9, 2011

Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life, talks to Leonard Lopate about the life and legacy of Leo Tolstoy on WNYC:

(Pictured above: The UK edition of Tolstoy: A Russian Life published by Profile Books)

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Francis Ford Coppola at TIFF

November 24, 2011

You know, what was top of my mind when I was making ["The Conversation"] was I wanted to make the film as beautiful as “Blow-Up.” You know, I had seen “Blow-Up” by Michelangelo Antonioni and I said boy, that’s the kind of film I – those were the kind of films I want to make. [...]

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Eames: The Architect and The Painter

November 21, 2011

Eames: The Architect and the Painter opened in New York last week. Co-director of the documentary Bill Jersey talked about the film and the impact of the Eames aesthetic on design with Leonard Lopate on WYNC: As mentioned in the interview, A.O. Scott also reviewed the movie for The New York Times, drawing the interesting, if inevitable, [...]

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Artists as Activists | WNYC

November 16, 2011

Shepard Fairey and Christy Maclear, executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, discuss Occupy Wall Street and the work of the late Robert Rauschenberg with Brian Lehrer on WNYC: Tweet

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