Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Consequence

What happens when we let things go?

Michael Bierut|Audio

The Good, the Flat, and the Ugly

Instagram, rainbows, digital brutalism, Design: The Invention of Desire, the Freewrite.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Patience

Nobler than beauty

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Identity

To be human is to struggle with the unknowable. To design is to make things knowable.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Desire

Design matters because of the why, not the what: the sentiment, not the acquisition.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Prisons and Paradise

Solitary confinement, virtual reality, design thinking for prisoners, Drew Hodges’s Broadway, The Paradise, Prince’s unpronounceable glyph

Michael Bierut|Audio

High Maintenance

Innovators and maintainers, Bernie and Hillary, mapping and infrastructure, algorithms and Rembrandt

Michael Bierut|Audio

Shapes and Japes

Corporate design humor from Mic Drop to bland.ly, photoviz, remembering Zaha Hadid

Michael Bierut|Audio

Crowd Control

Tay, Boaty McBoatface, New Zealand, emoji, and the madness of crowds

Michael Bierut|Audio

The Logosphere

The Met and the logosphere, designing with scientists, the Clinton-Sanders graphics race

Michael Bierut|Audio

Magic on the Page

Matthias Buchinger, Beyonce, Mohawk Superfine at 70, Umberto Eco

Michael Bierut|Audio

Guys and Dolls

Barbie and Rey, food and design, 30 years after the Challenger disaster