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Jessica Helfand is a writer, educator and graphic designer. Together with William Drenttel she founded Winterhouse and is a founding editor of Design Observer, among the leading international websites for design, visual thinking and cultural criticism. A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines, she has written for numerous national publications including Aperture, Los Angeles Times Book Review and The New Republic. She is the author of Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), and Scrapbooks: An American History (Yale University Press, 2008), which was named one of the best books of that year by The New York Times.
Appointed by the Postmaster General to the U.S Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee in 2006, she is a Life Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society, a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. With William Drenttel, Ms. Helfand was the first-ever recipient, in 2010, of the Henry Wolf Residency at the American Academy in Rome. She was awarded the AIGA medal in 2013.
Jessica Helfand received both her B.A. in graphic design and architectural theory and her M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale University. She has lectured internationally and was a visiting artist at Wesleyan University in the fall of 2012. Appointed to the Yale faculty in 1994, she is currently Senior Critic in Graphic Design and a Lecturer in Yale College, where she teaches courses in visual biography and experimental film.
She will be at ESAD presenting the lecture Blue: Motive + Method, under the MA in Communication Design 2014/2015, coordinated by Andrew Howard.