🏛️ Architecture & Design Feb 18, 2026 · Rachel Paese

A devotion to the human face

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A devotion to the human face
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In 2019, artist, designer, writer, and Design Observer co-founder Jessica Helfand published Face: A Visual Odyssey, a compelling examination of the history of images of the human face — from historical mugshots to medical research images to humanoid robots, and beyond. “The face has always been a hieroglyph, at once the instrument of lucidity (we all have one) and an enigmatic canvas (we’re all different),” she wrote in the prologue. 



Her timing was impeccable. 



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