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Steven Heller
Steven Heller is the co-chair of the Designer as Author MFA Program and co-founder of the MFA in design criticism program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is the editor, author or co-author of over 100 books on design, political art and popular culture. His website is Hellerbooks.com.
For 33 years, Heller was an art director at The New York Times. Currently, he writes the "Visuals" column for the Book Review, designer and illustrator obituaries, and a design column for NY Times' T-Style "The Moment" blog.
Heller is contributing editor for Print, I.D., Baseline, Eye, and a frequent contributor to Metropolis and Varoom
magazines, among other periodicals. He writes the "Daily Heller" for Print's online forum and does interview "Broadcasts" for Core77. Also, his design history lecture podcasts are part of the SVA MFA Design Paul Rand Lecture Series.
Contact Information:
sheller [at] sva.edu
www.hellerbooks.com/
Posts by Steven Heller
OBLOG: Child Labor (02.18.13)
OBSERVATORY: For the Love of Scripts (06.13.11)
OBSERVATORY: Paul Rand, Painter (05.02.11)
OBSERVATORY: Souvenirs as Nazi Propaganda (03.03.11)
OBSERVATORY: Hitler’s Poster Handbook (02.17.11)
OBSERVATORY: The Master Race’s Graphic Masterpiece (02.07.11)
OBSERVATORY: My Big Fat Fast Food Feast at Eataly (01.12.11)
OBSERVATORY: Designer as Author (12.07.10)
OBSERVATORY: Miss Branding: A Cautionary Tale (11.15.10)
OBSERVATORY: Heller on Heller (09.17.10)
OBSERVATORY: Vignelli’s Herald (or Heralding Vignelli) (09.15.10)
OBSERVATORY: Do You Copy? The Visuals of Ham Radio (07.28.10)
OBSERVATORY: Fascist Seduction (06.21.10)
OBSERVATORY: Home Is the Sailor, Home from the Sea (04.27.10)
OBSERVATORY: Becoming a Designer in the Age of Aquarius (02.23.10)
OBSERVATORY: Harsh Words from T.M. Cleland (12.14.09)
OBSERVATORY: Christmas Schmaltz (12.01.09)
OBSERVATORY: Why Does John Baeder Paint Diners? (11.03.09)
OBSERVATORY: Ramparts: Agent of Change (10.14.09)
OBSERVATORY: People in Glass Apartments (10.01.09)
OBSERVATORY: My First Taste of Political Satire (08.27.09)
OBSERVATORY: Covering the Good Books (08.11.09)
OBSERVATORY: A Good Trademark: A Historical Perspective (07.29.09)
OBSERVATORY: When Satire Was More Than Funny (07.06.09)
OBSERVATORY: Take Me Out to the Old Yankee Stadium (06.23.09)
OBSERVATORY: Mad Music (06.08.09)
OBSERVATORY: How Much Is That Artifact in the Window? (05.12.09)
OBSERVATORY: Father of Shrek, Grandfather of Tweet (04.21.09)
OBSERVATORY: Japanese Face Masks (03.23.09)
OBSERVATORY: The Good Books (01.21.09)
OBSERVATORY: That Pesky Television Test Pattern (01.21.09)
OBSERVATORY: My Dada (12.03.08)
OBSERVATORY: Draw Me Schools Of Commercial Art (12.03.08)
OBSERVATORY: History of Aggressive Design Magazines (11.14.08)
OBSERVATORY: In Praise of the Anthropomorphic (10.27.08)
OBSERVATORY: Charles Peignot: Man Behind the Faces (10.01.08)
OBSERVATORY: Go West, Young Art Director (09.23.08)
OBSERVATORY: Breakdowns: A Review (09.15.08)
OBSERVATORY: Where Have You Gone R. Cobb? (08.26.08)
OBSERVATORY: Canned Laughter (08.18.08)
OBSERVATORY: Clipping Art, One Engraving At a Time (08.04.08)
OBSERVATORY: Vanity Fair Type: 1930 Style (07.02.08)
OBSERVATORY: Homage to Velvet Touch Lettering (06.30.08)
OBSERVATORY: Branding Youth in the Totalitarian State (06.05.08)
OBSERVATORY: O.H.W. Hadank (05.22.08)
OBSERVATORY: The Sky Is Falling (05.01.08)
OBSERVATORY: Underground Mainstream (04.10.08)
OBSERVATORY: The Magic of the Peace Symbol (03.24.08)
OBSERVATORY: Swastika Humor? (03.04.08)
OBSERVATORY: Wilhelm Deffke: Modern Mark Maker (01.24.08)
OBSERVATORY: What's In A Name? (12.27.07)
OBSERVATORY: It's Easy to Criticize. . . Not (12.19.07)
OBSERVATORY: Curse of The "D" Word (11.24.07)
OBSERVATORY: Topanga, I Hardly Knew Ye (10.14.07)
OBSERVATORY: Decorative Books: The End of Print (09.26.07)
OBSERVATORY: The Designer As Gumshoe (08.30.07)
OBSERVATORY: Confessions of a Book Catalog Reader (08.09.07)
OBSERVATORY: Leon Friend: One Teacher, Many Apostles (07.21.07)
OBSERVATORY: Silas H. Rhodes, Founder of SVA (07.02.07)
OBSERVATORY: Martin Weber in the Third Dimension (06.19.07)
OBSERVATORY: The Nazi Triangle (04.15.07)
OBSERVATORY: The Other Monocle (02.26.07)
