Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Essays
May 5, 2017
Thinking Like a Book Designer
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” —Aldous Huxley
Last fall, Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand spent a day at Creative Live teaching students to think like a book designer. They discussed the various roles a designer plays in designing a book; historian, architect, author, humanitarian, performer, editor, and mechanic.
You can watch the course any time, and AIGA members can watch it for free!
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By Michael Bierut & 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.
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