Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut is a partner in the international design consultancy Pentagram and a co-founder of the online design magazine, Design Observer. A selection of the essays he has written for Design Observer, since its founding in 2003, has been collected under the title Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007). Michael is co-editor of Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, vols. 1 through 5 and a regular contributor to I.D. magazine and to Public Radio International’s arts program “Studio 360.” He is also a senior critic in Graphic Design at Yale University School of Art. Among the many honors Michael has received is a Medal of Excellence by the AIGA, an organization for which he was the president from 1998 to 2001, and most recently the 2008 Cooper Hewitt National Design Mind Award.
- Websites
- Design Observer
- Pentagram
Blog: Design Observer: Main Posts 
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Amelia Lacy: Gene and Jackie Lacy, Indianapolis-based graphic designers and illustrators
16 May 2012
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Rick Poynor: The Strange Afterlife of Common Objects
15 May 2012
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Mark Lamster: The War Against Sixties Architecture
15 May 2012
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Rob Walker: Making an e-collection, and what it taught me.
15 May 2012
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Keith Eggener: Louis Curtiss, the Boley Building, and the Invention of the Glass Curtain Wall
14 May 2012
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The Editors: A Mother’s Day Celebration: Designers with their Moms
13 May 2012
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Places Editors: Going Viral Exhibition and Discussion at New York Center for Architecture
11 May 2012
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Alexandra Lange: The Mother of Us All (architecture critics, that is)
11 May 2012
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Zhang Xiao & Aaron Rothman: Three Gorges: Photographs of the Lost Town of Kaixian, China
10 May 2012
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Bill Moran: Home to 1.5 million pieces of wood type
9 May 2012
