Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S11E3: The Healthy Materials Lab says Everyone Deserves a Healthier Home

In this episode of DB|BD, Healthy Material Lab co-founders Jonsara Ruth and Alison Mears explain why they focus on affordable housing, what harmful materials are lurking in our homes and how healthy alternatives can be made accessible and …

Ellen McGirt|Essays

What does it mean to observe the observer?

Ellen McGirt|Audio

S11E2: How Franklin Leonard is using The Black List to Redesign Hollywood

Through the Black List, Franklin Leonard is making Hollywood a true meritocracy.

Jessica Helfand|Interviews

Josef Koudelka, Next: A Visual Biography: Ten Questions for Melissa Harris

“It was essential that I humanize Koudelka and extricate him from the more reductive and pedestaled realm of myth where so many position him," says Harris.

Ellen McGirt|Audio

S11E1: How to Throw a Party to Change the World with Carrie Mae Weems

In this episode, Carrie Mae Weems talks about her work, her role in public life, the intersecting crises in the world, and the power of convening people through art to confront big truths.

Jessica Helfand|Profiles

S11E0: Meet the Redesigners

Jessica Helfand|Exhibitions

Type is (More Than) Image

From record albums and book covers, to editorial illustration and identity programs, to three-dimensional environmental graphics all over the world, typography has always stood at the core of Paula Scher’s work.

Cindy Chastain|Conversations

Design Observer x Mastercard

For three days in March, we gathered with some sixty people—designers and scholars, social entrepreneurs and independent consultants, creative leaders and senior practitioners from across a range of industries—to discuss the …

Jessica Helfand|Interviews

Henry Leutwyler: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum

An interview with photographer Henry Leutwyler that explores his photographic record of some of the nearly 30,000 objects in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E11: Avery Willis Hoffman

Avery Willis Hoffman is a writer, director, producer, and curator. Hoffman recently joined Brown University as the inaugural artistic director of the Brown Arts Initiative.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E10: Quemuel Arroyo

Quemuel Arroyo is the first ever chief accessibility officer at the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E9: Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis is an artist, curator, and a professor at New York University. Her most recent book is The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.