Jessica Helfand
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Jessica Helfand|Essays
Certificate of Approval
Jessica Helfand writes about her favorite piece of design.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Does It Have To Be A Lightbulb?
You know that joke about how many graphic designers it takes to screw in a lightbulb? To which the answer is: does it have to be a lightbulb?
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Bring In Da Ponk!
There is a reason that most Americans don't think of roasted millet as a dietary staple, and it may have something to do with the fact that extracting it requires actually thrashing the wheat stalk from which it hails.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
You Never Go Down The Candy Aisle
I used to believe that the true secret of extraordinary success in the kitchen lay in skillful grocery shopping. I was doomed, it seemed, the minute I hit the market, where I was hardwired to revisit the same aisles, to buy the same …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Sweet Spot: Cake as Craft?
Within the broad genre known as reality television — in between the astonishing displays of amateur talent and the atrocious tales of teenage pregnancy — are nearly half a dozen programs devoted to extreme displays of, well, …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones but Print Can Never Hurt Me: A Letter to Fiona on First Reading "The End of Print"
In 2000, Jessica Helfand wrote a letter to her daughter Fiona, giving her a primer on graphic design.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Be Careful What You Wish For
What happens when you combine People's Sexiest Man Alive with GQ's Hottest Babe? They get married!Then they split up.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman!
The Canada Post announced last month that it is enlisting the public's help in designing a new stamp to raise awareness for mental health issues.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Oh, To Be An English, Um, Person!
Within the space of one hour yesterday, these two images flashed upon my screen — both of them curiously billed as "Englishmen."
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Pretty Pictures, Bad Judgment
If a picture's worth a thousand words, a publically broadcast picture is amplified, multiplied and cast out into a world where it can go anywhere.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
The Bantjes Covers
Marian Bantjes exposes the long process that led to the cover of her new monograph, I Wonder.
William Drenttel|Essays
An Introduction to Graphic Design
Graphic Design 101 by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand.