Françoise Mouly
Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Françoise Mouly

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20261 hr 14 min
  • Interview
  • Arts & culture

Françoise Mouly—legendary longtime art editor of The New Yorker and co-founder of the groundbreaking comics magazine RAW—has helped transform the possibilities of comics, illustration, and visual storytelling. She joins to discuss her career shaping more than three decades of New Yorker covers, why the future of art still depends on human curiosity and lived experience, and her new book, The New Yorker: From Cover to Cover. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The best images develop in time. And in time, I mean in split seconds. So that at first you see the topic, you see what it's an image of, and then you get it.

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From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

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On this episode, a conversation with art editor, Francois Moulis, about her life and about her new book of covers from the New Yorker magazine. My book is a collection of images and it has a point. Print is dead, long live print.

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