Jessica Helfand

Michael Bierut|Audio

Food for Thought

Samsung v. Apple, the International Style v. capitalism, Sausage Party, mozzarella sticks

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Cock-a-Doodle-Don't

Where food is concerned, the relationship between what things look like and how we respond exists at its most primal level: what is a gut reaction, after all, if not something that attacks your gut?

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Audrey Real Helfand: Designer Manquée

Fifty years ago, my mother Audrey was a prolific visual maker: today, she’d be running her own studio.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Passing the Torch

Olympics, cursive handwriting, NASA’s secret art studio, gun sales on Facebook, #firstsevenjobs

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Four

A QR code on a sepulcher, a film noir detective sign, confections, a visual palimpsest

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Three

Gargoyles as emoticons, façades, a visual history of French sanitation in typography + more

Michael Bierut|Audio

Rough Sketches

Trump-Pence, Clinton-Kaine, Black Lives Matter, The Four Seasons, mapping the brain, the video essay

Jessica Helfand

Paris One Forty: Week Two

A visual diary.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Logocentrism

For Paul Rand, a modern mark was a simple mark, and the secret to making things last lay in keeping them simple.

Jessica Helfand

Paris One Forty: Week One

A visual diary.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Border Control

Brexit, borders, naming, Fiorello La Guardia and his airport, robot dogs, though leadership, Snapfax

Jessica Helfand|Observer Quarterly

Do Not Disturb

The accidental mercy of machines