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Studio Audience: With Calvin & Hobbes, Morrissey and interactive CVs

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Date
25 October 2013

Hey pod fans! Nice to see you again, please accept this latest offering of Studio Audience with our compliments. Your spotter’s card for this episode includes the phrase “sibling-cum-romance vibe,” an unsubtle call for cake and Liv Siddall interjecting weirdly. Oh yeah and more art and design chat that you can waggle a stick at. Not sure why you’d want to do that though.

You can listen to the pod using the link above or download from iTunes here

A painting of two people in conversation against a bright yellow background. One person wears a red shirt and has a white beard, while the other wears a blue shirt and a yellow polka-dot tie.
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A David Hockney picture at Frieze Masters (Photo by Liv Siddall)

In the first section we talked about last week’s Frieze art fair and questioned whether some of the stick the event gets is fair; we also discussed The Design Museum’s programme for next year and Morrissey’s autobiography being published in the hallowed Penguin Classics series which has upset some people.

A bright gallery space features a glowing neon sign that reads “theFuture wasHere” with an arrow pointing downwards. Below the sign, a long display table holds a black architectural model and several small printed cards.
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The Future Is Here at The Design Musuem

A book cover featuring a blue-tinted close-up of Morrissey with his eyes closed. Below the image, a white band reads “Penguin Classics” above a dark blue section with the text “Morrissey” and “Autobiography”.
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Morrissey’s Autobiography

A magazine cover for “mental_floss” featuring a white background. At the bottom, Garfield carries a wooden coffin while Odie walks beside them.
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Mental Floss’ special Calvin & Hobbes cover

As three Calvin & Hobbes devotees we welcomed the news that Bill Watterson had given an extremely rare interview to Mental Floss magazine and we asked whether creatives are within their rights to let their work speak for them.

An illustration of a video game style landing page for an “Interactive Resume of Robby Leonardo”. A small, pixelated character stands before large, 3D block lettering in a bright landscape with stylised green trees.
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Robby Leonardi’s interactive CV

After that we looked at Robby Leonardi’s amazing interactive CV and the first issue of intern magazine and wondered what these projects tell us about the different ways people get into the creative industries.

A copy of Intern magazine stands upright against a stack of the same publication on a wooden floor. The black cover features the title “intern” in bold orange text and a moody portrait of a person.
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intern magazine Issue One

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About the Author

Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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