Listen "165. Alicia Cheng (Originally aired 10/28/20)"
Episode Synopsis
We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired October 28, 2020.
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Alicia Cheng is a founding partner of the New York design studio MGMT and the author of the book This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot. She previously worked as a designer for Method, was a co-design director at the Cooper Hewitt, and is currently an external critic for the MFA program at RISD. In this episode, Jarrett and Alicia talk about how the design of ballots can teach us about the United States’s uneasy relationship with voting, mixing design history with American history, and how research feeds her design practice.
Alicia is currently the design director at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/165-alicia-cheng.
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Alicia Cheng is a founding partner of the New York design studio MGMT and the author of the book This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot. She previously worked as a designer for Method, was a co-design director at the Cooper Hewitt, and is currently an external critic for the MFA program at RISD. In this episode, Jarrett and Alicia talk about how the design of ballots can teach us about the United States’s uneasy relationship with voting, mixing design history with American history, and how research feeds her design practice.
Alicia is currently the design director at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/165-alicia-cheng.
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon and get bonus content, transcripts, and our monthly newsletter! www.patreon.com/surfacepodcast
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