For The Love of Brutalism and Destruction of Buildings
The Structure is Rotten, Comrade (La Structure est Pourrie, Camarade) by Viken Berberian and Yann Kebbi is a graphic narrative that...
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Steven Heller
- Jan 9, 2018
- 6 min
TCCC Unity: A New Coke Classic
Last week in Atlanta, Neville Brody announced “TCCC Unity: The New Typeface for Coca-Cola.” It may seem incredible that Brody, once the...
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Steven Heller
- Jan 8, 2018
- 1 min
The Polish Detective
I have become very fond of detective fiction. So much that I receive various kinds from all over the world. Recently, Poland’s New...
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Steven Heller
- Jan 5, 2018
- 6 min
Jim Flora’s Online Life
Irwin Chusid has made a mission out of ensuring that the illustrator, painter and designer Jim Flora is not forgotten. He has recently...
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Steven Heller
- Jan 4, 2018
- 2 min
Duchamp’s Underground Press
Three “indie,” or what were also called “little” magazines, were produced in New York in 1917 by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood and...
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Steven Heller
- Jan 3, 2018
- 1 min
Revisiting a Punk Icon
It has been a rocky road for civil liberty this year. So, are you ready for some good old-fashioned Punk anti-fascist good-tidings? Or at...
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Steven Heller
- Jan 2, 2018
- 1 min
An Offer You Cannot Refuse
The Businessman’s Record Club of Chicago was sponsored by the National Communications Corp., Chicago, and claimed to have 5,000 active...
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Steven Heller
- Jan 1, 2018
- 1 min
Birds Of A Feather
For the New Year here’s a curious coincidence. Its not that one copied the other. But dotted lines for stork legs? Good ideas may be in...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 30, 2017
- 1 min
Weekend Heller: More Italian Designo
The late 1950s was the modern period of Italian graphic design. The leading Italian design magazine, Linea Grafica, which published in...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 29, 2017
- 2 min
Art With Message
You might hear some argument over the statement “All good art is political,” the theme of Galerie St. Etienne’s exhibition of the same...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 28, 2017
- 1 min
Everyday Italian Design
The great Bruno Munari said the following about the quotidian things of life: “They are objects of everyday use in homes and workplaces...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 27, 2017
- 1 min
Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s Modern Prescience
Those old guys stole our best ideas. The Florentine Giovanni Battista Bracelli (1616–1649) was an Italian engraver and painter of the...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 26, 2017
- 1 min
My Favorite Artist’s Promotion
BANG! says it is “the must unpredictable magazine in the world.” It is also more than a distinctive artist’s promotion by Klaas...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 25, 2017
- 3 min
Deck the Park With Signs of Empathy
Today of all days is when we should all experience empathy, or at least be reminded to feel empathy. Type designer Pablo Medina and...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 23, 2017
- 1 min
Weekend Heller: Some Great Holiday Greetings
I used to be a Christmas card fanatic. My first book Artist’s Christmas Cards remains one of my proudest achievements. I know, Christmas...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 22, 2017
- 1 min
Rudolph de Harak’s Abstract Purity
Rudolph de Harak made me see Modernism in graphic design differently. No longer was it a style, but an attitude for order and...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 21, 2017
- 1 min
Marshall McLuhan, What A Card
I bet those of you followers of Marshall McLuhan never thought of him as a card sharp. Well, you’ve got a treat in store. The Master of...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 20, 2017
- 1 min
Playtime In Sutnar’s Playground
Ladislav Sutnar tested the idea of the play principle with the toughest critics: Children. His toys, which today are mini-masterpieces of...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 19, 2017
- 2 min
My Debt To Herb Lubalin
It wasn’t long after I decided by accident that I wanted to design and art direct newspaper/magazines that I learned that the process was...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 18, 2017
- 2 min
Hungary’s Aggressive Posterist
If you know the name Mihály Biró (1886–1948) at all, you’ll be familiar with his most internationally known image: the “Red Man” cover...
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