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Jessica Helfand

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Artist + writer. Co-founder @DesignObserver.
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The Icarus Diaries

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By Ellen McGirt Verified, Jessica Helfand
| Design Observer Verified
Jessica Helfand|The Icarus Diaries 14: Puppet I am picturing Icarus as a choir boy, isolated against a bright background as though pulled from a lineup. Ringlets, voice still high, dressed to fit in with the chorus. The gaze is downward, uncertain, mercurial. Jessica Helfand|The Icarus Diaries 13: Fire When I was a student, Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space was our bible.
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Category: Peru's Sacred Valley

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By Ellen McGirt Verified, Jessica Helfand
| Design Observer Verified
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Less is liberation: Christine Platt talks Afrominimalism and designing a spacious life

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By L’Oreal Thompson Payton, Delaney Rebernik Verified, Ellen McGirt Verified, Jessica Helfand
| Design Observer Verified
When the author and advocate learned to live with — and do — less, she found so much more. Christine Platt never had any intention to start a minimalist movement, but when her first book, The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less, was published in 2021 — amid the global COVID-19 pandemic — that’s exactly what happened. “I tried to mimic mainstream minimalism, but it was boring. It was awful.
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