Steven HellerDec 16, 20171 minWeekend Heller: Seeing RedThe gents at !Productive Arts! have another amazing collection of Soviet-era magazines. Krasnaia Panorama (Red Panorama) was a literary...
Steven HellerDec 15, 20171 minOn the Road AgainThe (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...
Steven HellerDec 14, 20174 minAcademic Freedom is Not Black and WhiteClashes over the limits of academic freedom and political correctness in the educational sphere have triggered generational debates. Is...
Steven HellerDec 13, 20171 minChecking in on Czech Book CoversCzechoslovakia was at the forefront of the European Avant Garde typography and design movement. As these three covers—top two by Ladislav...
Steven HellerDec 12, 20171 minCommercial Art, War Dept. StyleDuring World War II, the Armed Forces required many specialists and laborers. If you went to art school before entering the service,...
Steven HellerDec 11, 20171 minTailor-Fit JacketsThere are few design media more persuasive to me than book jackets. Despite the ease of Amazon, I can still spend hours in bookstores...
Steven HellerDec 9, 20172 minWeekend Heller: Designers Should Know How to DrawAnd if you don’t believe me … Italy’s premier cultural quarterly, PROMETEO, has published a 12-page, full-color feature essay/article by...
Steven HellerDec 8, 20171 minHey, Hey, We Were The MonkeesDuring the 1960s, before the advent of Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone as “underground” rock n’ roll magazines, Tiger Beat and 16 Magazine...
Steven HellerDec 7, 20171 minSmokin’ WomenAfter WWI, Vienna-born Edward Bernays (1891–1995), known as the “inventor” of public relations and the father of spin (and Sigmund...
Steven HellerDec 6, 20171 minThe Mystery of ABCABC Design: A Modular Alphabet Book by Dana Atchley was published by Wittenborn and Co. in 1965. Sadly, what I don’t know about Atchley...
Steven HellerDec 5, 20176 minQuentin Fiore’s Other WorkIn 1988, I conducted a three-hour interview with Quentin Fiore, designer/author with Marshall McLuhan of The Medium is the Massage and...
Steven HellerDec 4, 20171 minThe Splitting Image of an ArtistThe caricaturist and satirist Roger Law, who co-created the works below, has shifted gears—or, rather, split his image—in the years since...
Steven HellerDec 2, 20171 minWeekend Heller: Two Big Holiday GiftsSubmit your application by Jan. 15, 2018, to be a part of the SVA MFA Design: Designer as Author and Entrepreneurcommunity and earn your...
Steven HellerDec 1, 20173 minThe Mourning PrayerMark Podwal’s art has long focused on Jewish legend, history and tradition. Although he always made images, Podwal never pursued formal...
Steven HellerNov 30, 20174 minDesign Aids Social JusticeAMPL!FY is a public art and design initiative that partners an artist or designer with a nonprofit organization working on the front...
Steven HellerNov 29, 20172 minTuli Kupferberg’s Real Fake Real NewsIn the early 1960s the emerging counterculture spawned by the Beats in New York City’s East Village began publishing a slew of what soon...
Steven HellerNov 28, 20172 minTapestries for Civil RightsIreland-based Bill Shipsey is a human rights activist, artist event promoter and producer, barrister, and the founder of Art for...
Steven HellerNov 27, 20171 minMasks: Hide and SneakHalloween 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...
Steven HellerNov 25, 20172 minWeekend Heller: Books on Design, From Me to YouIt’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...
Steven HellerNov 24, 20171 minInk Looks Better on PaperA dagger (†) is a symbol used in typography to indicate a footnote if an asterisk has previously been used. A double dagger (‡) with two...