Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Out of Bounds

Charles Saatchi still trying to shock, leaves something to be desired in his new book

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Thanksgiving Day

Merci to all our readers whose contributions we recognize with sincere gratitude

Michael Bierut|Audio

Magnitude

Climate change, Drake’s take on James Turrell, an IKEA horror catalog

Michael Bierut|Audio

The Opposite of Ugly

Michael Bierut’s monograph, the lost art of album art, ugliness

Jessica Helfand|Tributes

Remembering Ruth Sackner

An inveterate collector

Michael Bierut|Audio

Basic Human Needs

IKEA and Facebook efforts for refugees, e-reading, Adrian Frutiger, Phil Patton

Michael Bierut|Audio

Moving Pictures

Aylan Kurdi, photojournalism, airline posters, early television

Jessica Helfand|Audio

New Horizons

Pluto is at the outer limits of the solar system. Porto is at the end of Europe.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

Places and Faces

Art, nostalgia, and community

Michael Bierut|Audio

M Is for a Million Things

Milan, Mario Batali, Michelle Obama, Moshe Safdie, Modernism, MOO (our sponsor), Michael Erard, metaphor design, Macintosh icons, Massimo Vignelli....

Jessica Helfand|Tributes

Remembering James Salter

Writer, father

Michael Bierut|Audio

150 Years, 7 Minutes, 6 Seconds

Visualizing business data, a logo to mark Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, and more.