Weekend Heller: Seeing Red
The gents at !Productive Arts! have another amazing collection of Soviet-era magazines. Krasnaia Panorama (Red Panorama) was a literary...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 15, 2017
- 1 min
On the Road Again
The (good ol’?) days when you could walk into a service station and select a paper map produced by the shop’s respective oil company are...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 14, 2017
- 4 min
Academic Freedom is Not Black and White
Clashes over the limits of academic freedom and political correctness in the educational sphere have triggered generational debates. Is...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 13, 2017
- 1 min
Checking in on Czech Book Covers
Czechoslovakia was at the forefront of the European Avant Garde typography and design movement. As these three covers—top two by Ladislav...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 12, 2017
- 1 min
Commercial Art, War Dept. Style
During World War II, the Armed Forces required many specialists and laborers. If you went to art school before entering the service,...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 11, 2017
- 1 min
Tailor-Fit Jackets
There are few design media more persuasive to me than book jackets. Despite the ease of Amazon, I can still spend hours in bookstores...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 9, 2017
- 2 min
Weekend Heller: Designers Should Know How to Draw
And if you don’t believe me … Italy’s premier cultural quarterly, PROMETEO, has published a 12-page, full-color feature essay/article by...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 8, 2017
- 1 min
Hey, Hey, We Were The Monkees
During the 1960s, before the advent of Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone as “underground” rock n’ roll magazines, Tiger Beat and 16 Magazine...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 7, 2017
- 1 min
Smokin’ Women
After WWI, Vienna-born Edward Bernays (1891–1995), known as the “inventor” of public relations and the father of spin (and Sigmund...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 6, 2017
- 1 min
The Mystery of ABC
ABC Design: A Modular Alphabet Book by Dana Atchley was published by Wittenborn and Co. in 1965. Sadly, what I don’t know about Atchley...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 5, 2017
- 6 min
Quentin Fiore’s Other Work
In 1988, I conducted a three-hour interview with Quentin Fiore, designer/author with Marshall McLuhan of The Medium is the Massage and...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 4, 2017
- 1 min
The Splitting Image of an Artist
The caricaturist and satirist Roger Law, who co-created the works below, has shifted gears—or, rather, split his image—in the years since...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 2, 2017
- 1 min
Weekend Heller: Two Big Holiday Gifts
Submit your application by Jan. 15, 2018, to be a part of the SVA MFA Design: Designer as Author and Entrepreneurcommunity and earn your...
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Steven Heller
- Dec 1, 2017
- 3 min
The Mourning Prayer
Mark Podwal’s art has long focused on Jewish legend, history and tradition. Although he always made images, Podwal never pursued formal...
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Steven Heller
- Nov 30, 2017
- 4 min
Design Aids Social Justice
AMPL!FY is a public art and design initiative that partners an artist or designer with a nonprofit organization working on the front...
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Steven Heller
- Nov 29, 2017
- 2 min
Tuli Kupferberg’s Real Fake Real News
In the early 1960s the emerging counterculture spawned by the Beats in New York City’s East Village began publishing a slew of what soon...
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Steven Heller
- Nov 28, 2017
- 2 min
Tapestries for Civil Rights
Ireland-based Bill Shipsey is a human rights activist, artist event promoter and producer, barrister, and the founder of Art for...
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Steven Heller
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min
Masks: Hide and Sneak
Halloween has been over for a while now, but masks are with us every day. A mask is more than a simple disguise, theatrical prop or part...
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Steven Heller
- Nov 25, 2017
- 2 min
Weekend Heller: Books on Design, From Me to You
It’s that time of year when the pre-holiday spirit befalls us all and we give thanks for all the books we can buy. Here are some of my...
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Steven Heller
- Nov 24, 2017
- 1 min
Ink Looks Better on Paper
A dagger (†) is a symbol used in typography to indicate a footnote if an asterisk has previously been used. A double dagger (‡) with two...
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