Design Matters Resumes With Jessica Helfand

Joining me as we resume Season Five of Design Matters with Debbie Millman on Friday, January 9th at 3 PM, is designer, author, educator and theorist Jessica Helfand.

Jessica Helfand is partner. with William Drenttel, in Winterhouse, a design studio in Northwest Connecticut. Their work focuses on publishing and editorial development; new media; and cultural, educational and literary institutions. Recent clients include The Poetry Foundation, The New Yorker, Yale School of Management, Teach for America, Harvard Law School and the National Design Awards. They are recent recipients of a 1.5 million dollar grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to develop an initiative around design and social innovation, and will spend the spring of 2010 in residency at the American Academy in Rome.

Helfand is currently Senior Critic at Yale School of Art’s graduate program in graphic design. She is the author of several books, including Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media and Visual Culture (2001) and Reinventing the Wheel (2002), both published by Princeton Architectural Press. Her most recent book, "Scrapbooks An American History," (2008: Yale University Press) was named the best coffee-table book of the year by The New York Times. Helfand was appointed to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Commmittee in 2006, where she chairs the design subcommittee. She is also one of the founders of the influential design blog Design Observer. She received her B.A. in architectural theory and her M.F.A. in graphic design, both from Yale University.

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