Episode 131: Word by Word

Jessica talks with Hrishikesh Hirway, musician and host of Song Exploder, The West Wing Weekly, and other podcasts, about what they’ve been doing to entertain themselves while social distancing. Hrishi talks about doing puzzles, and compares the process of editing to

dumping out all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle on the table. But, the thing is, you're not going to use all the pieces. You have a lot of extra. It's like if you had three different jigsaw puzzles dumped onto the table, but you're only trying to figure out one of them.

Also:

Gillan Lasic, Pop Inquirer, #QuaranThings: Couples who work from home are finding out about their partner’s ‘work persona’
Gris
Calvino Noir
The New York Times crossword
West Wing Weekly, What's Next? featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Youtube
Home Cooking podcast

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Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer. A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, she is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. Jessica received both her BA and MFA from Yale University where she has taught since 1994. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.

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