Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Thirteen

Elegant and expressive variations on Parisian signage — a typographic buffet of style and history + more

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Two

Chapter Two, Pilgrim : In 1911, Ezra Winter marries, wins the Rome Prize, and heads to Europe for three years of study and travel.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Twelve

Seen on the streets of Paris: a clown, a dog, mannequins, gorgeous hand-drawn signage + more.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Notes from the Road: Part 2

Over a career that spans more than six decades, David Pease has built a body of work that is anchored by a methodical studio practice.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Notes from the Road: Part 1

A story of how logic meets chance, how memory engenders narrative, how observation seeds curiosity, cues language, and sparks form.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Eleven

More Paris street photography + a surprise in a box.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Doors and Perception

Bathroom signs, MBA students, Mozilla and open logo design, The Commissar Vanishes, Masters of Sex

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Ezra Winter Project: Chapter One

Jessica Helfand, who teaches the seminar "Studies in Visual Biography" at Yale, shares her year-long exploration of the American muralist Ezra Winter: this is part one.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Ten

A collection of type on the streets of Paris

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Nine

Lightbulb-headed naked dolls, Butter! Eggs! Lemons! Type = theatre, how the light falls in Paris + more.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Memory Loss

The Napalm Girl photo on Facebook, 9/11 out of context, Apple stores and the iPhone 7 launch, the Doctor Strangelove trailer, Wiener-Dog, Pantsuit

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Eight

George Melies, the art of the mannequin, Franz Lizst, the Bourgeois + more.