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
01.20.10: Harsh Words from T.M. Cleland12.23.09: Christmas Schmaltz
11.30.09: Ramparts: Agent of Change
11.17.09: Why Does John Baeder Paint Diners?
10.23.09: People in Glass Apartments
09.28.09: Covering the Good Books
09.08.09: My First Taste of Political Satire
08.24.09: A Good Trademark: A Historical Perspective
07.27.09: That Pesky Television Test Pattern
07.15.09: When Satire Was More Than Funny
07.02.09: Take Me Out to the Old Yankee Stadium
06.23.09: Mad Music
05.26.09: How Much Is That Artifact in the Window?
04.29.09: Father of Shrek, Grandfather of Tweet
03.31.09: Japanese Face Masks
02.25.09: The Good Books
01.16.09: My Dada
12.15.08: Draw Me Schools Of Commercial Art
12.08.08: History of Aggressive Design Magazines
11.24.08: Charles Peignot: Man Behind the Faces
11.06.08: In Praise of the Anthropomorphic
10.13.08: Breakdowns: A Review
10.01.08: Go West, Young Art Director
09.11.08: Where Have You Gone R. Cobb?
08.22.08: Canned Laughter
08.15.08: Clipping Art, One Engraving At a Time
08.01.08: Vanity Fair Type: 1930 Style
06.24.08: Branding Youth in the Totalitarian State
06.03.08: Homage to Velvet Touch Lettering
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
