Jessica Helfand

OBLOG: Page One: Great Expectations (05.07.12)
OBSERVATORY: Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Four (04.26.12)
OBLOG: The Russian Empire, Before Photoshop (04.17.12)
OBSERVATORY: Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Three (03.31.12)
OBSERVATORY: Audrey Real Helfand: Designer Manquée (03.13.12)
OBSERVATORY: Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Two (02.29.12)
OBSERVATORY: Yoshiko Sato 1960-2012 (02.21.12)
OBSERVATORY: Ezra Winter Project: Chapter One (01.30.12)
OBSERVATORY: Late Summer Reading (08.26.11)
OBSERVATORY: On the Shoulders of Midgets: A Conversation About Reality TV (07.11.11)
OBSERVATORY: For Sale: The Earliest Modern Studio in America (07.06.11)
OBSERVATORY: The Look of Freedom (07.04.11)
OBSERVATORY: The Public Face of Disgrace (06.16.11)
OBSERVATORY: Meet Our Intern: Paul Rand! (06.03.11)
OBSERVATORY: Mothers Day Special: Baby, It's You! (05.07.11)
OBSERVATORY: The Royal Tweet (04.29.11)
OBSERVATORY: New Lives for Old Paper (02.23.11)
OBSERVATORY: Penny Dreadfuls (02.14.11)
OBSERVATORY: The Little Savages (02.12.11)
OBSERVATORY: When Do We Call it Art? (01.27.11)
OBSERVATORY: Certificate of Approval (01.25.11)
OBSERVATORY: Does It Have To Be A Lightbulb? (01.20.11)
OBSERVATORY: Bring In Da Ponk! (01.19.11)
OBSERVATORY: You Never Go Down The Candy Aisle (01.18.11)
OBSERVATORY: Sweet Spot: Cake as Craft? (01.04.11)
OBSERVATORY: Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones but Print Can Never Hurt Me: A Letter to Fiona on First Reading "The End of Print" (12.20.10)
OBSERVATORY: Be Careful What You Wish For (12.15.10)
OBSERVATORY: Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman! (12.15.10)
OBSERVATORY: Oh, To Be An English, Um, Person! (12.02.10)
OBSERVATORY: Pretty Pictures, Bad Judgment (11.26.10)
OBSERVATORY: The Bantjes Covers (10.25.10)
OBSERVATORY: An Introduction to Graphic Design (10.11.10)
OBSERVATORY: AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing: 2010 Recipients (10.05.10)
OBSERVATORY: The Kindness of Strangers (09.16.10)
OBSERVATORY: Fat Chance (09.09.10)
OBSERVATORY: The Real Skinny on the Real Skinny (09.07.10)
OBSERVATORY: In the Palm of Your Hand: Dexterity Puzzles (08.23.10)
OBSERVATORY: Viva The Villain: A Review of Despicable Me (07.14.10)
OBSERVATORY: Happy Birthday, Steven Heller (07.07.10)
OBSERVATORY: The Next Great Graphic Designer (06.23.10)
OBSERVATORY: Rome's MAXXI: Force Field as Field Space (06.01.10)
OBSERVATORY: Every Poem an Epitaph: The Protestant Cemetery in Rome (04.15.10)
OBSERVATORY: Prisoners of Logic (02.19.10)
CHANGE OBSERVER: Better Living Through Artistry (02.17.10)
OBSERVATORY: All Things Matter (10.27.09)
OBSERVATORY: A Stitch in Time: A Review of 9 (09.20.09)
OBSERVATORY: Significant Objects: Elvis Chocolate Tin (08.17.09)
OBSERVATORY: Can Graphic Design Make You Cry? (07.29.09)
OBSERVATORY: Open Letter to Design Students Everywhere (06.03.09)
OBSERVATORY: Land in Crisis: The Antelope Valley Story (04.14.09)
OBSERVATORY: What's The Story? (04.09.09)
OBSERVATORY: My Facebook, My Self (03.11.09)
OBSERVATORY: Cats and Their Designers (03.05.09)
OBSERVATORY: Ten Things That Need to be Redesigned (12.17.08)
OBSERVATORY: Graphic Design Spam (11.07.08)
OBSERVATORY: The Posters of Padua (10.02.08)
OBSERVATORY: Second in a Series: Completions (09.15.08)
OBSERVATORY: Biblionomatopoeia (08.19.08)
OBSERVATORY: First In A Series: Cartophily (08.07.08)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Ephemera, Part III: Aging 2.0 (07.14.08)
OBSERVATORY: Reflections on the Ephemeral World, Part Two: Food (06.30.08)
OBSERVATORY: Reflections on The Ephemeral World, Part One: Ink (05.30.08)
OBSERVATORY: Iron Man: The Screen Behind the Screen (05.16.08)
OBSERVATORY: National Scrapbooking Day (05.03.08)
OBSERVATORY: Viewer Discretion Advised (03.21.08)
OBSERVATORY: Animal Magnetism (02.14.08)
OBSERVATORY: Woody Allen's Typography (01.31.08)
OBSERVATORY: Gone, Baby, Gone (Things, Part II) (01.30.08)
OBSERVATORY: Remembering Paul Rand (01.03.08)
OBSERVATORY: Things, Part I (12.03.07)
OBSERVATORY: Thanksgiving Day (11.21.07)
OBSERVATORY: Type Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry (11.07.07)
OBSERVATORY: Science and Design: The Next Wave (10.16.07)
OBSERVATORY: Stan Brakhage: Caught on Tape (10.01.07)
OBSERVATORY: Back To School (09.08.07)
OBSERVATORY: Awarelessness (09.04.07)
OBSERVATORY: Another Myth Brilliantly Debunked (08.23.07)
OBSERVATORY: Harry Potter and The Enchanted Letterforms (07.17.07)
OBSERVATORY: Cock-a-Doodle-Don't (07.10.07)
OBSERVATORY: Why Is This Font Different From All Other Fonts? (06.26.07)
OBSERVATORY: My Dirty Little Secret (05.28.07)
OBSERVATORY: Ad Reinhardt, Graphic Designer (05.17.07)
OBSERVATORY: The New Manifest Destiny (04.22.07)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Ephemera: Town & Country Cookbook (03.26.07)
OBSERVATORY: Art Director Ken (03.14.07)
OBSERVATORY: Lost, O Lost (03.04.07)
OBSERVATORY: The Illusion of Certainty (02.19.07)
OBSERVATORY: I'm Not Ready to Make Nice (02.12.07)
OBSERVATORY: The Karaoke Effect (01.19.07)
OBSERVATORY: The Not-So-Golden Age of Zero Tolerance (12.15.06)
OBSERVATORY: How Hollywood Nailed The Half-Pipe (11.27.06)
OBSERVATORY: Into the Pink (11.17.06)
OBSERVATORY: What Makes A Good Poster? (11.08.06)
OBSERVATORY: My Cup Holder Runneth Over (10.22.06)
OBSERVATORY: Death 'N' Stuff (09.21.06)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Small Town Life: The Logo Stops Here (09.04.06)
OBSERVATORY: The Ovalization of The American Mind (08.20.06)
OBSERVATORY: A Good Pan Is Hard To Find (07.28.06)
OBSERVATORY: The Global Curse of Comic Sans (07.20.06)
OBSERVATORY: The Right Stuff (07.07.06)
OBSERVATORY: Absolut Signage (07.03.06)
OBSERVATORY: Crafting All The Way To The Bank (06.29.06)
OBSERVATORY: "Oui, Oui, Oui" All The Way Home (06.01.06)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Academia: The New Exoticism (05.22.06)
OBSERVATORY: Disaster Relief 101: No Door Hanger Left Behind (04.30.06)
OBSERVATORY: The Art of Thinking Through Making (04.21.06)
OBSERVATORY: The Propensity for Density (04.11.06)
OBSERVATORY: A Sequence in Time (04.04.06)
OBSERVATORY: Give Me Privacy or Give Me an ID Card (03.02.06)
OBSERVATORY: What We Talk About When We Talk About Design History (02.16.06)
OBSERVATORY: Separated at Birth: Method? Or Madness? (02.05.06)
OBSERVATORY: Freedom of Speech or Filching of Style? The New Law of Eminent Lo-Mein (02.02.06)
OBSERVATORY: The D Word (01.29.06)
OBSERVATORY: Civilian Typography: The Power and The Fury (01.08.06)
OBSERVATORY: Calling All Angels (12.24.05)
OBSERVATORY: Face Value (12.16.05)
OBSERVATORY: Cease and Design (12.01.05)
OBSERVATORY: On Considering the Source (11.03.05)
OBSERVATORY: The Shock Of The Old: Rethinking Nostalgia (10.27.05)
OBSERVATORY: On Citizenship and Humanity: An Appeal for Design Reform (10.06.05)
OBSERVER MEDIA: John Stossel on Graphic Design (10.01.05)
OBSERVATORY: Eye of the Storm (09.01.05)
OBSERVATORY: A Mosaic of Vision and Memory (08.12.05)
OBSERVATORY: Why Bugs Don't Belong on TV (07.31.05)
OBSERVATORY: New Models for Design Efficiency: Introducing Otto (07.08.05)
OBSERVATORY: The Adventures of Cynic Boy and Design Mom in 3D (06.22.05)
OBSERVATORY: The Cut: When Life Imitates Art (I Mean Design) (06.10.05)
OBSERVATORY: Method Designing: The Paradox of Modern Design Education (05.23.05)
OBSERVATORY: Greer Allen: In Memoriam (04.28.05)
OBSERVATORY: Extremely Young and Incredibly Everywhere: The Public Art of Jonathan Safran Foer (04.21.05)
OBSERVATORY: The Design Police (03.24.05)
OBSERVATORY: Scrapbooking: The New Paste-Up (03.17.05)
OBSERVATORY: Our Bodies, Our Fonts (02.21.05)
OBSERVATORY: My Friend Flickr (02.18.05)
OBSERVATORY: The New Paper Chase: Cyberspace on The Auction Block (02.16.05)
OBSERVATORY: All Rise! (01.31.05)
OBSERVATORY: Paris Dispatch: A Long Way Down (01.23.05)
OBSERVATORY: A Blog Poem, Part II (12.31.04)
OBSERVATORY: Code (PMS) Blue (12.23.04)
OBSERVATORY: Time, Space and The Microsoft Colonialists (12.03.04)
OBSERVATORY: Donald Trump, Art Director: Not The Real Thing (11.29.04)
OBSERVATORY: The Designibles (11.15.04)
OBSERVATORY: Am I Blue (11.03.04)
OBSERVATORY: The Rodneydangerfieldization of Graphic Design: Part I (10.08.04)
OBSERVATORY: Gentlemen Prefer Blogs (09.24.04)
OBSERVATORY: Magazine Without a Name, Brand Without a Promise (09.13.04)
OBSERVATORY: Under The Microscope (09.09.04)
OBSERVATORY: Ladislav Sutnar: Mechanical Beauty (08.10.04)
OBSERVATORY: An Instrument of Sufficiently Lucid Cogitation (08.05.04)
OBSERVATORY: Graphic Design: The Movie (07.21.04)
OBSERVATORY: Design Gone Mad (07.16.04)
OBSERVATORY: Ask Not What Your Typeface Can Do For You: Ask What You Can Do For Your Typeface (07.08.04)
OBSERVATORY: Take Two Logos and Call Me in the Morning (07.01.04)
OBSERVATORY: Designer by Day, Catwoman by Night (06.11.04)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Academia, Part II: Graphic Design and The New Optimism (05.20.04)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Academia, Part I: What I Didn't Learn In Graduate School (05.12.04)
OBSERVATORY: Time Waits for No Fan (05.01.04)
OBSERVATORY: One Person, One Vote, One MRI? (04.20.04)
OBSERVATORY: Graphic Flanerie (04.15.04)
OBSERVATORY: The Lying Game (04.01.04)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Typographic Oddity No. 2: Spaceship Gothic (03.26.04)
OBSERVATORY: Blanket Statements (03.16.04)
OBSERVATORY: The DNA of AND: Ampersand as Myth and Metaphor (03.12.04)
OBSERVATORY: Annals of Typographic Oddity: Mourning Becomes Helvetica (03.09.04)
OBSERVATORY: Regarding the Photography of Others (03.05.04)
OBSERVATORY: The Crisis of Intent (02.24.04)
OBSERVATORY: You're Going to Hollywood, Baby (02.03.04)
OBSERVATORY: The Span of Casual Vision (01.13.04)
OBSERVATORY: Mind the Light, Light the Mind (01.02.04)
OBSERVATORY: A Blog Poem, Part I (12.16.03)
OBSERVATORY: Sign Language: Endangered Species or Utopian Uprising? (12.05.03)
OBSERVATORY: On Visual Empathy (11.22.03)
OBSERVATORY: Implausible Fictions (11.12.03)
OBSERVATORY: Color Me Kurt (11.03.03)
OBSERVATORY: Fatal Grandeur (10.30.03)
OBSERVATORY: Edward Tufte: The Dispassionate Statistician I (09.26.03)
OBSERVATORY: The Art of Elegant Abstraction (09.10.03)
OBSERVATORY: The Real Declaration (09.06.03)

BOOKS BY Jessica Helfand

Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture

Scrapbooks: An American History

Reinventing the Wheel

Paul Rand: American Modernist

Looking Closer 3

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