Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand|Essays

A Good Pan Is Hard To Find

On baking a cheesecake and becoming a better designer: it’s one big balancing act of artistry and skill.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Seven

Training the lens on the other Paris. 

Jessica Helfand|Observer Quarterly

Tonight’s Specials

A menu is an inventory, an index, a list—but it’s also a kind of social history, telling us what we ate, where we ate it, and how much we paid for the privilege of doing so.

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.