Today I talk with Rick Landesberg of Landesberg Design and find out about his early career, including the romance that brought him to Pittsburgh, his long road to becoming a graphic designer and the break that launched his career. But first we catch up with where we left off last season.

Spoiler alert: nobody dies.

The site where I found all the quotes for the monologue [http://quotesondesign.com/]

Some background on Rick’s early artistic inspiration [via wikipedia]

pal-imp-sest (n): 1) a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

Rick’s projects with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh [http://www.landesbergdesign.com/projects/carnegielibrary.shtml]

A primer on the UC Logo situation, in podcast form [http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-69-the-brief-and-tumultuous-life-of-the-new-uc/]

es-cutch-eon (n): 1) a shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms. 2) a flat piece of metal for protection and often ornamentation, around a keyhole, door handle, or light switch.

Rick’s TEDx talk in Pittsburgh from 2009:

Some of the work that Rick has created for Calliope [http://www.landesbergdesign.com/projects/calliope.shtml]

UPDATE 03/03: Some text and links have been modified at the request of the interviewee. A previous version of the audio file also had the incorrect introduction, which was confusing when I referred to a pull quote that wasn’t there. All of this has been corrected and the podcast is now completely perfect in every way.