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This is not a simple story, but it has a simple lesson. The Covinfluencers. Jessica received both her BA and MFA from Yale University where she has taught since 1994. The Cushing Portraits. Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer.A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, she is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. Video.

Rather than lecturing from a podium, she gave symposium-style comments on the state of design, followed by an informal and wide ranging question … She grew up in Paris and New York City, and received her BA and MFA from Yale University where she taught for more than two decades. The faces here are anonymous, yet universal: their expressions powerful, poignant, and profoundly human.

Below is a short reflection by Class of 2018 student Lassor Feasley. The American neurologist Harvey Cushing used photography as a diagnostic tool, taking before-and-after pictures of his patients for more than thirty years. She is a member of the A 2018 Director’s Guest at Civitella Ranieri and a 2019 fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation, Jessica Helfand is the winter 2020 Artist in Residence at the California Institute of Technology. Rather than amplifying the privileged medical gaze, the paintings themselves propose an alternative model, removed from the clinic, extended onto canvas, and rethinking the very notion of the portrait—now, more than 100 years later—as an act of compassion.

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Jessica Helfand is known for her work on American Masters (1985), The Visual Language of Herbert Matter (2010) and Design Is One: The Vignellis (2012). Jessica Helfand (born 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a designer, author, and educator.She is a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, and founding editor of the website Design Observer.

She is Senior Critic at Yale School of Art since 1994, a lecturer in Yale College, and Artist-in-Residence at Yale’s Institute for Network Science. Jessica Helfand is an artist, designer, and writer. She is a co-founder of Design Observer, and the co-host of two podcasts: The Observatory , and The Design of Business | The Business of Design . In 1997, he joined the designer and writer Jessica Helfand to form a new design consultancy--Jessica Helfand William Drenttel--focused on editorial, identity and new media projects. The American neurologist Harvey Cushing used photography as a diagnostic tool, taking before-and-after pictures of his patients for more than thirty years. Thousands of these images, housed in the Cushing Brain Registry at Yale School of Medicine (and most of which have never been seen) form the basis for a series of paintings I am making that seek to bring what is unseen—but visible—to light. This month, artist, designer, and writer Jessica Helfand joins Caltech as the Winter 2020 artist-in-residence in the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences' Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture, which is administered jointly by the division and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and was established in 2018 with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Cushing Portraits. Jessica Helfand.
Books. Jessica Helfand: American Masters.
Jessica Helfand is an artist, designer, and writer. For more than twenty years she taught at Yale University, where she was Senior Critic in Graphic Design, the Artist in Residence at the Yale Institute for Network Science, and a lecturer in Helfand has written for many national publications, including the Helfand was appointed by the Postmaster General to the U.S. Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee in 2006, where she chaired the Design Subcommittee until 2012. Products of Design welcomed Jessica Helfand—co-founder of Design Observer and Yale Lecturer in Design and Management—as a guest speaker this past Thursday. Designer, educator and writer Jessica Helfand is recognized as an incisive critic; a pioneer in design practice and education; an innovator of new forms of visual narrative; and for her work as cofounder of Design Observer.