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 of AIGA VOICE, the online journal of design, as well as 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
Observatory
07.28.10: Do You Copy? The Visuals of Ham Radio06.21.10: Fascist Seduction
04.27.10: Home Is the Sailor, Home from the Sea
02.23.10: Becoming a Designer in the Age of Aquarius
12.14.09: Harsh Words from T.M. Cleland
12.01.09: Christmas Schmaltz
11.03.09: Why Does John Baeder Paint Diners?
10.14.09: Ramparts: Agent of Change
10.01.09: People in Glass Apartments
08.27.09: My First Taste of Political Satire
08.11.09: Covering the Good Books
07.29.09: A Good Trademark: A Historical Perspective
07.06.09: When Satire Was More Than Funny
06.23.09: Take Me Out to the Old Yankee Stadium
06.08.09: Mad Music
05.12.09: How Much Is That Artifact in the Window?
04.21.09: Father of Shrek, Grandfather of Tweet
03.23.09: Japanese Face Masks
01.21.09: The Good Books
01.21.09: That Pesky Television Test Pattern
12.03.08: My Dada
12.03.08: Draw Me Schools Of Commercial Art
11.14.08: History of Aggressive Design Magazines
10.27.08: In Praise of the Anthropomorphic
10.01.08: Charles Peignot: Man Behind the Faces
09.23.08: Go West, Young Art Director
09.15.08: Breakdowns: A Review
08.26.08: Where Have You Gone R. Cobb?
08.18.08: Canned Laughter
08.04.08: Clipping Art, One Engraving At a Time
07.02.08: Vanity Fair Type: 1930 Style
06.30.08: Homage to Velvet Touch Lettering
06.05.08: Branding Youth in the Totalitarian State
05.22.08: O.H.W. Hadank
05.01.08: The Sky Is Falling
04.10.08: Underground Mainstream
03.24.08: The Magic of the Peace Symbol
03.04.08: Swastika Humor?
01.24.08: Wilhelm Deffke: Modern Mark Maker
12.27.07: What's In A Name?
12.19.07: It's Easy to Criticize. . . Not
11.24.07: Curse of The "D" Word
10.14.07: Topanga, I Hardly Knew Ye
09.26.07: Decorative Books: The End of Print
08.30.07: The Designer As Gumshoe
08.09.07: Confessions of a Book Catalog Reader
07.21.07: Leon Friend: One Teacher, Many Apostles
07.02.07: Silas H. Rhodes, Founder of SVA
06.19.07: Martin Weber in the Third Dimension
04.15.07: The Nazi Triangle
02.26.07: The Other Monocle
