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Jessica Helfand|Essays

A Good Pan Is Hard To Find

On baking a cheesecake and becoming a better designer: it’s one big balancing act of artistry and skill.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Signs of Labor

In honor of this week’s national celebration of Labor Day, a selection of images that personify the hard work and dedication of the American worker.

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Coney Island of The Mind

It’s late August and your shirt sticks to your back. The only escape is….the beach.

Jessica Helfand|Observer Quarterly

Tonight’s Specials

A menu is an inventory, an index, a list—but it’s also a kind of social history, telling us what we ate, where we ate it, and how much we paid for the privilege of doing so.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Cock-a-Doodle-Don't

Where food is concerned, the relationship between what things look like and how we respond exists at its most primal level: what is a gut reaction, after all, if not something that attacks your gut?

Mark Lamster|Essays

How to Design an Iconic NY Fast Food Joint

Design secrets of New York fast food icons.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Audrey Real Helfand: Designer Manquée

Fifty years ago, my mother Audrey was a prolific visual maker: today, she’d be running her own studio.

Adam Harrison Levy|Interviews

An Interview With Philip Glass

In 2005, Adam Harrison Levy interviewed Philip Glass for a BBC documentary film about Chuck Close. Glass was seated in front of the monumental painting Phil. This is their exchange.