History Rhymes
Filmed on October 11, 2013, at “Head Heart Hand: AIGA Design Conference”
Kurt Andersen of Studio 360 looks back at graphic design art and history over the past 150 years at “Head Heart Hand: AIGA Design Conference.” Using a series of captivating images he explains why history doesn’t repeat it rhymes.
Kurt Andersen is the author of the critically acclaimed best-selling novels Turn of the Century and Heyday. He is the host and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning public radio show Studio 360 and writes a column about culture and politics for New York magazine. Andersen co-founded Spy magazine and Inside.com and he served as editor-in-chief of New York and Colors magazines. He has been a cultural columnist for the New Yorker and Time as well as Time’s architecture and design critic. He has also created prime-time network specials and pilots and written screenplays and an off-Broadway revue. In 2003 New York magazine named him one of the “100 People Who Changed New York” and in 2008 Forbes.com named him one of “The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media.” Andersen is a member of the board of trustees at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Pratt Institute was Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design in 2009 and has contributed to many books on design including Spectacle by David Rockwell and Bruce Mau.
