Jessica Helfand

Artist + writer. Co-founder @DesignObserver.

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As we celebrate our twentieth anniversary in 2023, we're looking back to look ahead: giving twenty awards in as many categories, a new fellowship, and more. #DOTwenty https://t.co/gEy0ATCXIf

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For twenty years, Design Observer has brought you news, criticism, and visual culture from around the globe. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce a fellowship and awards program, The Design Observer Twenty. #DOTwenty #LearnMore https://t.co/3OmcKzxMMU

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@trufelman @jcrew @donetodeath !!!!!

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Left, Pillow Talk, 1959. Right, Life on the moon, 2040.
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The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –

I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.

Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

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Not all Xs are born equal.

Pouchée ornamented types
Bonnewell antique wood letter
Futura Black
Caslon Italian

#TwitterX

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The original Bad Bunny

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Graphic design without computers (or women)

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We partnered with our friends @Mastercard to co-host a series of intimate conversations about the current state of everything: collaboration, craft, cultural transformation, + technological innovation, all impacting the ways we live and work.
#Listen 🎧
https://t.co/NpFWlyQlHH

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@codeswitchtweet @Blackwing Amazing!

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On the margins, where art lives, humans will continue to carve and paint and hear voices and daydream, pulling out of unique lives unique work. https://t.co/JQ9qDbFPLg

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I CAN PAINT SWELL

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For twenty years, Design Observer has brought you news, criticism, and visual culture from around the globe. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce a fellowship and awards program, The Design Observer Twenty. #DOTwenty #LearnMore https://t.co/3OmcKzxMMU

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The first step would be to put more of an emphasis on hands-on classes such as art, music, sewing, woodworking, cooking, theater, auto mechanics and welding. https://t.co/Jj8akUo35W

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More than an optical exercise, reading is a process that involves mind and eyes together, a process of abstraction ... discovering around us regularities, differences, recurrences, singularities, substitutions, redundancies. https://t.co/I734odcx0h

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@Kirk_Stephen Right? The attitude!

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Amid countless stories of AI "scraping" the internet to undermine original work, there is this. One work inspires another. That is how the public domain feeds creativity. https://t.co/cxdF6LUJ0c

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“At one point, someone appeared to have made a typeface, or a font, out of my handwriting. … Something about this new typeface made me feel as if the person who had created it was trying to program a piece of my soul.” https://t.co/sIP7M9lGoK

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@MollyYoung Did Teddy design this in secret

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@luketonge @AJWShaughnessy Oh that is just genius