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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)
Description: Maggie Gram is a writer, cultural historian, and designer. She leads an experience-design team at Google. She has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Harvard University, and she has written for N+1 and the New York Times. She lives in New York. The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History (Basic Books, 2025)
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