Jessica Helfand
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Jessica Helfand|Projects
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Seven
As the gulf widens between the aspirational and the real — between the projected self and the authentic self — Ezra Winter immerses himself in all that is beautiful and lyrical and dream-like, including and especially the …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Six
In the Spring of 1926, publisher George Palmer Putnam organized an 8,500 mile expedition to Greenland in quest of specimens for the then-new Hall of Ocean Life in the American Museum of Natural History: the ship’s roster included an …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Why Write About Graphic Design?
Today, graphic design is no longer a function of pictures and words on paper, because graphic design is no longer only about being graphic. It operates on multiple cultural, linguistic and formal platforms, and its boundaries are porous …
Jessica Helfand|Books
Page One: Great Expectations
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Five
In 1920, Warren Harding was elected President on a “Return to Normalcy” platform. But for Ezra Winter, nothing was normal.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Four
Ten months before the 1929 stock market crash, Edna Murphey was one of America’s foremost experts in health and beauty: she was also extremely wealthy. Three years later she became Mrs. Ezra Winter.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Three
In his first post-Academy professional pursuit, Ezra Winter is hired to design camouflage for the United States Shipping Board, using a reductive visual vocabulary of bold stripes and patches of solid color that is far closer to the …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Yoshiko Sato 1960-2012
Jessica Helfand's personal remembrance of the Japanese architect and designer Yoshiko Sato, who lost her battle with cancer earlier this month.
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.