Paris One Forty: Week Three

For 140 days in 2014, Jessica Helfand tweeted an image a day about her observations. Herewith, the third week of her visual diary.

Gargoyles as emoticons — all carved into the same facade on Avenue Paul Doumer in the 16th. But no flying buttresses. pic.twitter.com/WpsUhxbiPs

— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 2, 2014

A memorial to those who died in World War I is to children, because that’s what they were, those young men. Children. pic.twitter.com/F9hgehM8fq

— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 3, 2014

The façade of just another building on the Rue Montmartre — once headquarters to an evening paper. Before news feeds. pic.twitter.com/MpDNpeaXls

— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 4, 2014

“Bis” often indicates a second address where there was once only one. They’re visual hiccups on the streets of Paris. pic.twitter.com/dWNNRJEp2H

— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 5, 2014

We all create as we breathe, but artists feels themselves creating, actions all-involving, pain a source of strength. pic.twitter.com/Tm865I1Vto

— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 6, 2014

Valves. Hygienic Apparatuses. And Heated Bathrooms! An abbreviated visual history of French sanitation in typography. pic.twitter.com/d22wlOYtgu

— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 7, 2014

Dramatic “art moderne” letterforms on a 1935 post office, near Bastille. But who was this “J. Buktet” —the architect? pic.twitter.com/Mrbn7WnxsS

— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 8, 2014

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By Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.