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Steven Heller
Jan 10, 201810 min read
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, 20186 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20186 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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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The method is still the same: appeal to weakness, bolster myth, and massage fantasy.- Steven Heller
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