HBO’s
Big Little Lies is based upon Liane Moriarty’s novel, set in Australia, but the adaptation is filmed in Monterrey, California. Jessica says:
The choice to position it on a coast struck me as a really beautiful creative decision, because It’s set against the openness of sea and sky and it’s about the closedness of a community.
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Diana Budds, Nixon, NASA, and How the Federal Government Got Design
The Atlantic, Why Nixon Created the EPA
William Ruckelshaus, A Lesson Trump and the E.P.A. Should Heed
Kickstarter for 1977 EPA Graphic Standards System reissue
Design and Exclusion conference: audio and transcripts
This American Life, Lindy West confronts her troll
Big Little Lies on HBO
Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty interviewed in the Guardian
Five Came Back: book by Mark Harris, series on Netflix
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Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati, and has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1990. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art.
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.