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Two Designers Walk Into a Bar

Pop culture inspires some serious fun.Join hosts Todd Coats and Elliot Strunk, two creatively curious pals living between the bookends of grand museums and dive bars, the sweet spot where highbrow and lowbrow become drinking buddies. They talk influential work and uncover stories of how the familiar became iconic. Think Behind the Music for the stuff we love.-----Visit https://www.twodesignerswalkintoabar.com/ for images, links, episode extras and more.-----Two Designers Walk Into a Bar is part of the Evergreen Podcasts network.

Cups, Plates and Trophy Design

35 mins; April 01, 2026

Punk Meets Tech and New Wave is Born (Classic)

40 mins; March 18, 2026

Homage Designs - A Poster for Swatch and an Orgy for Disney

49 mins; March 04, 2026

Psychedelia Comes Down, Hangs Around and Gets Reinvented

33 mins; February 18, 2026

The 1960s and the Era of Peak Psychedelia

33 mins; February 04, 2026

The Origin Story of Psychedelia

33 mins; January 21, 2026

Talking Food Mascots with Kirk + Kurtts (Classic)

32 mins; January 07, 2026

The Origin Story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

33 mins; December 24, 2025

Trailblazing Toys - Hot Wheels Cars and Mego Action Figures

50 mins; December 10, 2025

Giving Thanks for Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms

37 mins; November 26, 2025

Politicians, Superheroes and Stars - Noteworthy Magazine Covers

56 mins; November 12, 2025

Scary Good Posters - The Thing and The Creature from the Black Lagoon

37 mins; October 29, 2025

Monster Sponsors - Gritty from Philly and Monster Cereals from General Mills

40 mins; October 15, 2025

The Batmobile and the DeLorean - Iconic Pop Culture Cars

46 mins; October 01, 2025

Cat Posters with Paul Hennessey (Classic)

43 mins; September 17, 2025

NBC, Netflix and Network Branding

40 mins; September 03, 2025

The Fall and Rise (Again) of Tiki Culture

36 mins; August 20, 2025

Embracing and Evolving the Tiki Style

33 mins; August 06, 2025

Tiki Culture: The Story of Post-War Polynesian Pop

32 mins; July 23, 2025

Good Movies and Old Books - A Conversation with Matt Stevens (Part 2)

35 mins; July 09, 2025

Good Movies and Old Books - A Conversation with Matt Stevens (Part 1)

35 mins; June 25, 2025

Foxes, Flies and the Design of Blaxploitation Posters

46 mins; June 11, 2025

Cups, Plates and Trophy Design

35 mins; May 28, 2025

U.S. Military Propaganda Posters

37 mins; May 14, 2025

The State Flags of Ohio and Maryland

46 mins; April 30, 2025

Iconic Book Covers for Jurassic Park and The Great Gatsby

36 mins; April 16, 2025

Movie Studio Logos for 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers

49 mins; April 02, 2025

Game Show Logos for The Gong Show and Match Game

64 hours 53 mins; March 19, 2025

Al Hirschfeld and Elvis, Postage Stamps - Part 2

49 mins; March 05, 2025

The Penny Black and Dag Hammarskjöld, Postage Stamps - Part 1

41 mins; February 19, 2025

Food Mascots with Kirk + Kurtts

31 mins; February 05, 2025

Cat Posters with Paul Hennessey

43 mins; January 22, 2025

Goodyear’s Blimp, Pixar’s Luxo Lamp and How Objects Become Company Icons (Classic)

64 hours 44 mins; January 08, 2025

The ‘80s: New Wave Gets Fashionable (Classic)

36 mins; December 25, 2024

Elliot and MTV's The Real World

16 mins; December 11, 2024

Return to the Mailbag

40 mins; November 27, 2024

Iconic Music Videos - Part 2

47 mins; November 13, 2024

Rural Electrification, Hope for Obama and Posters for Good (Classic)

45 mins; November 05, 2024

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Tarantula and the Amazing Art of Reynold Brown (Classic)

58 mins; October 30, 2024

Iconic Music Videos - Part 1

43 mins; October 23, 2024

Roller Coaster Logo Battle

54 mins; October 09, 2024

Looking Back on Four Years

45 mins; September 25, 2024

Talking Music Posters with Paul Hennessey

33 mins; September 11, 2024

Gen X and the Golden Age of Magazines

58 mins; August 28, 2024

Gen X Music Appears from Underground

59 mins; August 14, 2024

Selling to Gen X Without Selling Out

55 mins; July 31, 2024

Denver, Los Angeles and Stories of Designing for the Olympic Games (Classic)

57 mins; July 26, 2024

When Gen X Came of Age

42 mins; July 17, 2024

Riffs on Riffs Crossover

72 hours 43 mins; July 03, 2024

Fun Food Containers

52 mins; June 19, 2024

Vernacular Architecture

52 mins; June 05, 2024

Signs of the Times

46 mins; May 22, 2024

The Reflex Blue Conversation

44 mins; May 08, 2024

Hey, Nice Package!

45 mins; April 24, 2024

The ‘80s: New Wave Gets Fashionable

35 mins; April 10, 2024

Design Crimes: Comic Sans: Who’s Laughing Now?

3 mins; April 01, 2024

The ‘80s: New Wave and the Boob Tube

47 mins; March 27, 2024

The ‘80s: Punk Meets Tech, New Wave is Born

39 mins; March 13, 2024

Pepsi, Tropicana and the Challenge of Good Design

8 mins; February 28, 2024

Six Marines, One Photographer. The Story of Iwo Jima

9 mins; February 21, 2024

The Goodyear Blimp: More Than a Bunch of Hot Air

10 mins; February 14, 2024

Black Cats, Fireworks and Celebrating a Logo We Love

7 mins; February 07, 2024

KISS and their Flaming Wheel of Death

9 mins; January 31, 2024

When the Beats Moved a Generation

11 mins; January 24, 2024

All Mascots Are Wieners in Our Eyes

10 mins; January 17, 2024

The Failure of Google Glass

9 mins; January 10, 2024

1979, Disco and the Opening of Studio 54

8 mins; January 03, 2024

Rubber Chickens vs. Whoopee Cushions

42 mins; December 20, 2023

Charles Atlas vs. Art Instruction Schools

48 mins; December 06, 2023

Ant Farms vs. Sea Monkeys

48 mins; November 22, 2023

Andy Warhol: When The Factory Meets Studio 54

47 mins; November 08, 2023

Andy Warhol: Movies Emerge from the Underground - Part 2

39 mins; October 25, 2023

Andy Warhol: Movies Emerge from the Underground - Part 1

37 mins; October 11, 2023

Andy Warhol: Album Covers Take a Walk on the Wild Side - Part 2

36 mins; September 27, 2023

Andy Warhol: Album Covers Take a Walk on the Wild Side - Part 1

41 mins; September 13, 2023

Bonus Episode: Nostalgia and Marketing: A Conversation with Kate Christensen

54 mins; September 08, 2023

Andy Warhol: The Silver Wears Off The Factory - Part 2

31 mins; August 30, 2023

Andy Warhol: The Silver Wears Off The Factory - Part 1

25 mins; August 16, 2023

Andy Warhol: New York and Rise of The Silver Factory - Part 2

28 mins; August 02, 2023

Andy Warhol: New York and Rise of The Silver Factory - Part 1

32 mins; July 19, 2023

Andy Warhol: Andy Becomes the Center of Pop Life

43 mins; July 05, 2023

Andy Warhol: The 1960s Scene and the Emergence of Pop

39 mins; June 21, 2023

The Pepsi (Logo) Challenge

31 mins; June 07, 2023

Listener Mail

24 mins; May 24, 2023

The Beat Era: Frank Sinatra and His Golden…Arm?

46 mins; May 10, 2023

The Beat Era: Beats, Beatniks and Myth vs. Reality

61 hours 8 mins; April 26, 2023

The Beat Era: Illustration and Artwork Styles with Jim Flora

28 mins; April 12, 2023

The Beat Era: Illustration and Artwork Styles with S. Neil Fujita

42 mins; March 29, 2023

The Beat Era: Illustration and Artwork Styles with David Stone Martin

35 mins; March 15, 2023

The Beat Era: Andy Warhol and Jazz Albums (Bonus!)

14 mins; March 01, 2023

The Beat Era: The Beat Era: John Hermansader and Two Iconic Jazz Album Designs

37 mins; February 15, 2023

The Beat Era: The Origins of the Blue Note Records “Look”

42 mins; February 01, 2023

The Beat Era: Pollock’s Drips and How They Changed the Art World

37 mins; January 18, 2023

The Beat Era: Kerouac’s On the Road and the Movement It Started

46 mins; January 04, 2023

Season 3 Preview: The Beats, Studio 54, 80s Modern and 90s Grunge

2 mins; September 12, 2022

Bar Snacks with Kyle Webster - Part 4 (Dire Straits, Super Mario, Street Fighter, Tennis and Alex Gross)

17 mins; July 20, 2022

Bar Snacks with Kyle Webster - Part 3 (Mood Lighting, Bourbon, Egg Nog and A Room with a View)

12 mins; July 06, 2022

Bar Snacks with Kyle Webster - Part 2 (Superman II, The Michelin Man, The Kool-Aid Man, Snap, Crackle and Pop, and Hanna-Barbera)

14 mins; June 22, 2022

Bar Snacks with Kyle Webster - Part 1 (MAD Magazine, Puma and Bugs Bunny)

13 mins; June 08, 2022

Bar Snacks with Lenny Terenzi - Part 4 (Sega, Dr. Strange, Italian Sausage, Guitar and Lowbrow Artists)

16 mins; May 25, 2022

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