Jessica Helfand
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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
Jessica Helfand|Analysis
This is What Character Looks Like
On eloquence, insistence, and the art of determination
Michael Bierut|Distinctions
Introducing Design at Yale School of Management
What does it mean to teach design in a business school?
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Katie Conry on building public programming for San Francisco’s most historically rich — and most misunderstood — communities Brands cannot afford to speak in the same voice as countless others right now. Typeface designers can help. We’re joyfully receiving your feedback. Here’s where we’re headed: Becoming a better observer has defined John Ball’s 40-year design career