Jessica Helfand
@jessicahelfand
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Artist + writer. Co-founder @DesignObserver.
Providence, RI
Joined July 2007
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
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 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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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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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.
nytimes.com
A.I. hasn’t suffered enough to write this essay.
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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.
nytimes.com
American schools are screening out too many of our visual and spatial thinkers.
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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.
theparisreview.org
January 5, 2023 – “We write to make it possible for the unwritten world to express itself through us.”
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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.
web.law.duke.edu
Tweet By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted
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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.”
nytimes.com
My drawings are a reflection of my soul. What happens when artificial intelligence — and anyone with access to it — can replicate them?
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A pathology all its own
Thanks to @jessicahelfand for reminding me of this scene in The Reckless Moment when art school is blamed for daughter going off the rails! #artschool #maxophuls
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