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Steven Heller
Dec 16, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20176 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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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The method is still the same: appeal to weakness, bolster myth, and massage fantasy.- Steven Heller
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