Jessica Helfand

Michael Bierut|Audio

Working-Class Heroes

British art schools, Bowie, Alan Rickman, the State of the Union, cannabis chocolate

Michael Bierut|Audio

State of the Chart

Data visualization, The Big Short

Jessica Helfand|Thesis Book Project

Brienne Jones

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Our Bataclan, Our Selves

Visualizing safety

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.