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Steven Heller

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Steven Heller|Opinions

Thoughts on Gun Design

Guns are as American as apple and chicken pot pie. And they are not just loved for security or sport, but for the look and feel — the design.

Steven Heller|Books

Vignelli’s Subway Map For Little Ones

Massimo Vignelli’s subway map, and the graphic design process, immortalized in new form: a children’s book.

Steven Heller|Essays

Fear Of Phallus

In my case, on average of twice a week, editors accused me of allowing one or more illustrators to include an unacceptable banana, kidney, or lozenge shape — and I’m talking about a plain old curvilinear-tipped graphic …

Steven Heller|Essays

The Design Comb Over

Hair is more than a fibrous protein. Hair is who we are, or at least what we project we are. Hair defines personal brand identity.

Steven Heller|Opinions

Spielberg’s Post Is Flawed

Spoiler Alert: Steven Heller digs into the production of Steven Spielberg’s “The Post”.

Steven Heller|Interviews

Making Inaccessibility Accessible

If you subscribe to the belief that good design makes life better, then there can be no better use of design than as an aid—if not a curative—for the disabled.

Steven Heller|Books

Holiday Book List: For the Inspiration-seeker and the Composed Creative

As 2017 draws to a close, Heller and Millman ask, which feeling do you want to end the year on: one that stimulates, or soothes?

Steven Heller|Essays

Bury My Heart On St. Marks Place: A Sixties Memorial

The most influential period of my life happened between 1964 and 1969 (after the election and assassination of John F. Kennedy, and beginning with the Beatles and Dylan), with the revolutions in politics, civil rights, anti-war, …

Steven Heller|Essays

Memory of an Eclectic Modernist: Ivan Chermayeff

Remembering Ivan Chermayeff, who died this past Saturday, December 2. He was 85.

Steven Heller|Essays

Nuclear Fear

Remembering the late Robert Blakeley, designer of the fallout shelter symbol, and the nuclear fear of the 50’s.

Steven Heller|Typography

Typefaces: The New Plaster Casts

A typographic homage to Ladislav Sutnar.

Steven Heller|Essays

Designing for the Masses

The ultimate case for anti-design: The Communist Manifesto

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