Brandi had the opportunity to chat with Jessica Helfand on her daily essay project for Design Observer called, “The Self-Reliance Project.” You’re in for a treat with one of our design heroes!

On this week’s episode:

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. Jessica received both her BA and MFA from Yale University where she has taught since 1994. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.

I’m so excited to have her as a guest on the podcast for this bonus episode!

(from The Self-Reliance Project web page)

“The Self-Reliance Project is a daily essay about what it means to be a maker during a crisis—to think through making, to know yourself better through the process of producing something—and how this kind of return to self-knowledge might just be the entire point.”

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