Jessica Helfand
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Jessica Helfand|Essays
A Blog Poem, Part I
Designers DevelopDistinctive DementiaDenying Dear Debts Due Descendants now Dead;Doubt and Denial,(Dada? Or de Stijl?)Design Does DefileDamned Discourse, instead.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Sign Language: Endangered Species or Utopian Uprising?
Many of my students have, over the years, considered the street writ large as a kind of flexible, experimental canvas. Their sources — and here I would include everything from Aaron Siskind to Gabriel Orozco — inform work in …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
On Visual Empathy
In a world besieged by unpredictable atrocities, don’t we all feel a little emotionally raw? Two recent articles in suggest that visual empathy may more critical to a productive imagination than we thought.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Implausible Fictions
At a symposium several weeks ago at the Annenberg School for Public Policy in Philadelphia, we gave a presentation in which we discussed some of the more vexing consequences of graphic design and what we've come to call faux science: …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Color Me Kurt
An article in today's New York Times discusses the new direction for Colors under the editorial leadership of critic, author, editor and part-time radio host Kurt Andersen.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Fatal Grandeur
In one of the annotations to my design manifesto, "Me, The Undersigned," I wrote somewhat sarcastically of the seriousness with which some of us view our profession by noting, "Design is probably not going to kill you if it falls on your …
William Drenttel|Twenty Years of Design Observer
Culture Is Not Always Popular
A keynote presentation by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel at the AIGA conference in Vancouver, October 25, 2003.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Edward Tufte: The Dispassionate Statistician I
I went to college with a very sharp guy who once claimed that the problem with sociology was sociologists, who were, as far as he was concerned, merely self-proclaimed experts on the obvious. "All sociologists really do," he once observed, …
Jessica Helfand|Essays
The Art of Elegant Abstraction
Bill Morrison's surprising 66-minute film is now playing on the Sundance Channel. For listings, see: http://www.sundancechannel.com/film_finder/index.php?startingLetter=d
Jessica Helfand|Essays
The Real Declaration
It is the rare piece of journalism that considers the role of typography in history. Rarer, still, is the idea that such a piece leaves the ghetto of same-old design publications, and pierces the frequently inpenetrable veil of the …