Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Two

Chapter Two, Pilgrim : In 1911, Ezra Winter marries, wins the Rome Prize, and heads to Europe for three years of study and travel.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Ezra Winter Project: Chapter One

Jessica Helfand, who teaches the seminar "Studies in Visual Biography" at Yale, shares her year-long exploration of the American muralist Ezra Winter: this is part one.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Journals

William Drenttel|Books

Late Summer Reading

In the late summer, we share a reading list first published in Frieze magazine, April 2011.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Remembering Sylvia Harris

Sylvia Harris passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 24th, 2011: she was 57. Jessica Helfand remembers her friend.

Jessica Helfand|Dialogues

On the Shoulders of Midgets: A Conversation About Reality TV

A conversation about reality TV with Marvin Heiferman and Jessica Helfand.

Jessica Helfand|Advertisement

For Sale: The Earliest Modern Studio in America

In 1931, a young American artist designed a modern studio on a mountaintop in the Berkshires in Connecticut: it would be one of the first modern houses in America, pre-dating Frank Lloyd’s Fallingwater by five years. It …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

The Public Face of Disgrace

The funny thing about lying is that it's about as far as you can go from the expectation of trustworthiness with which we characterize public leadership. 

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Meet Our Intern: Paul Rand!

Our surprise upon receiving the Facebook mailer shown here, addressed to Paul Rand.

Jessica Helfand|Gallery

Mothers Day Special: Baby, It’s You!

Today, in honor of Mother's Day, we've gathered some baby photos from some of our favorite designers.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

The Royal Tweet

Long criticized for not being relevant in contemporary culture, the British royal family announces the engagement of the future King of England via Twitter.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

New Lives for Old Paper

It's difficult, perhaps impossible to imagine a designer whose eye is not drawn to ephemera — the flimsy, forgettable, never-meant-to-survive bits of two-dimensional matter that circumscribe our daily lives  — and by …