Jessica Helfand
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Jessica Helfand|Critique
To Thine Own Selfie Be True
Photographing oneself has become a singular pastime, an instantly rewarding yet indisputably time-sucking activity poised somewhere between narcotic and sport.
Jessica Helfand|Case Studies
Publication as Parody
Stephen Colbert copied our cover and we were thrilled. But then we wondered: when does copycat design become inappropriate, or unethical, or illegal?
Jessica Helfand|Photos
Fast Thinking
Is this a slapstick fall captured as a slow-motion sideshow? Or an example of how accelerated exposure times tell a different story?
Jessica Helfand|Insights Per Minute
Jessica Helfand on Brevity
Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer, writer, and educator.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Our Shopping Lists, Our Selves
Jessica Helfand on lists: from the mundane to the historical, the shopping list to the Bill of Rights.
Jessica Helfand|My First Job
When Less Was More
Jessica Helfand reminisces about her first graphic design job.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Twelve
In the end, Ezra Winter was a man whose devotion to the classical world virtually underscored his every move: it explained his ineffable pursuit of youth, his enduring worship of women, his unyielding obsessions with fantasy and grandeur, …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Eleven
The 1930s would prove to be an enormously fertile period in Ezra Winter’s life: following the success of the Radio City murals, the artist embarked on major commissions for the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Reserve …
Jessica Helfand|Projects
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Ten
In April, 1933, Ezra Winter delivers a fifteen-minute live radio talk on the subject of mural painting in relation to modern life, in which he tries desperately to convince himself that he has embraced the modern world.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Bill Moggridge 1943-2012
Jessica Helfand remebers Bill Moggridge.
Jessica Helfand|Projects
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Nine
The Fountain of Youth would be Ezra Winter’s greatest achievement, an enduring cultural icon in the city he loved — and on every possible level, a simply insurpassable feat: it is an extraordinary painting precisely …
Jessica Helfand|Projects
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Eight
The Spanish dancer Carola Goya falls in love with Ezra Winter, and almost ruins her career.