September 23, 2016
Paris One Forty: Week Ten
Contrary to what native English-speakers might think, Mr. Jean is not asking for email. Email means enamel in French. pic.twitter.com/3Yyf40ZJka
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) October 21, 2014
Exquisite Art Deco numbers, a cross between sculpture and ballet, remind us why typography is so powerfully redolent. pic.twitter.com/5lwNElPWHI
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) October 22, 2014
A popular watering hole in the 11th, l’eau peine translates as barely water. But say it quickly and it’s an open bar. pic.twitter.com/XAET97IBLK
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) October 23, 2014
Architect signatures on buildings are common in Paris — elegant typography and odd abbreviations emblazoned in stone. pic.twitter.com/EYAQYAM57y
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) October 24, 2014
Did the architect match his signature to the architecture, or the other way round? The railings echo the serifs here. pic.twitter.com/PD0hbvWLoM
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) October 25, 2014
Paris in 1900 was still a world of fin-de-siècle splendor. But this didn’t stop one architect from a modern signoff. pic.twitter.com/yXewKoKDrn
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) October 26, 2014
Gauthier used an uppercase V where the U might have gone, and oddly, too, a lowercase i. Living dangerously, in 1891! pic.twitter.com/saz7MzV3qn
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) October 27, 2014
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By Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.
