Jessica Helfand

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|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.

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?