Jessica Helfand

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 97: Candidates and “Creatives”

2020 presidential campaign logos, 50 Books | 50 Covers, the “creative” hustle, Ellsworth Kelly stamps, Olivia Colman in Flowers

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 102: The Long View

Black hole image, Dyson Airblade, Titus Kaphar, Liz Jackson, Comic Sans takeover

Michael Bierut|Audio

From the Archive: Lee Moreau

Lee Moreau is Vice President of Design at EPAM Continuum, a global design and innovation consultancy based in Boston. He is also a visiting lecturer at MIT where he teaches design strategy and innovation.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 107: Scientific Advances

Science poster redesign, Eli Baden-Lasar’s portraits of his sperm-donor siblings, Jony Ive parodies, a ridiculous commercial

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 112: The Sweet Smell of Succession

Television: HBO’s Succession, The Deuce, The Politician, Face Values at Cooper Hewitt, Jessica Wynne photographs mathematician blackboards

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S7E7: Daniella Zalcman

Daniella Zalcman is a documentary photographer and the founder of Women Photograph.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S7E09: Mark Bloomfield + Shaun Borstrock

Mark Bloomfield is a jewelry designer and the founder of Electrobloom. Shaun Borstrock is associate dean for business and innovation at the University of Hertfordshire.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 119: Soldiers and Generals

Kyle Chayka’s “The Longing for Less”; minimalism; Hugh Weber joins Design Observer; Don Norman on collaboration; Maggie Gram on design thinking; the death of Mr. Peanut; Fanchon & Marco

Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project

Reflecting

Photographs like these are trenchant reminders about who we are as a people.

Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project

Generating

The studio is the seed lab: it’s where we realize that practice is at once speculative, iterative, and generative.

Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project

Dreaming

Dreaming is how we allow the unconscious mind to improvise.

Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project

Sharpening

As an isolated activity, sharpening’s got its own powerful syntax. It’s the art of paying attention.