Steven Heller
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Steven Heller|Essays
Designer as Author
In 1954, Alvin Lustig gave a lecture titled “What Is a Designer?” at the Advertising Typographers Association of America. It was his first speech after he lost his eyesight.
Steven Heller|Essays
Miss Branding: A Cautionary Tale
The 1957 film Blood of Dracula: A cautionary parable about the diabolical power of advertising and branding.
Steven Heller|Essays
Heller on Heller
Vignelli Celebration: Steven Heller talks about the redemptive qualities of having the same name as Vignelli's Hellerware.
Steven Heller|Essays
Vignelli’s Herald (or Heralding Vignelli)
Vignelli Celebration: Steven Heller remembers the Herald.
Steven Heller|Slideshows
Do You Copy? The Visuals of Ham Radio
The QSL card offered proof, among ham radio operators, that contact had been made. The design of these cards was not an indication of good or bad, of sophisticated or naïve thinking, but was crafted from what was available at the time. …
Steven Heller|Slideshows
Fascist Seduction
A visit to Mussolini’s Esposizione Universale Roma makes evident that one can be fervently anti-fascist and still admire — indeed savor — aesthetics for their own merits.
Steven Heller|Reviews
Home Is the Sailor, Home from the Sea
In 1943, Margaret Wise Brown, the children’s book author signed a contract with Harper & Brothers to publish The Fathers Are Coming Home.
Steven Heller|Essays
Becoming a Designer in the Age of Aquarius
On rereading S. Neil Fujita’s 1968 job manual, Aim for a Job in Graphic Design/Art.
Steven Heller|Essays
The D Word: Celluloid Hyperbole
The art and exaggeration of movie promos
Steven Heller|Essays
Snatching Satire From The Jaws Of Popular Culture
Caricature is Steve Brodner’s weapon of choice.
Steven Heller|Essays
The D Word: Henrik Drescher
What are the acceptable limits of outsider art?
Steven Heller|Interviews
The Swiss Grid
In celebration of the new exhibit at the Poster House, “The Swiss Grid”, Steven Heller interviewed Allon Schoener, the curator of the first "Swiss Graphic Designer" exhibit in the US in 1958.