Steven Heller
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Steven Heller|Interviews
The Plot Against America: Prop Story Redux
If you watch the six part HBO adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America, which premiered on March 16, please keep your eye on the props.
Steven Heller|Essays
The D Word: Yomar Augusto
The virtues of ugly design
Steven Heller|Essays
The Pit That Won’t Go Away
Being cooped up inside for who knows how much longer exacerbates a recurring feeling of anxiety.
Steven Heller|Essays
How You Can Tell If You Are An Old Fogey Designer
Ten questions to determine your level of old fogey-hood.
Steven Heller|Essays
Birthing Dataviz
Jason Forrest is amassing a curated archive of vintage data visualization books and artifacts, which he plans to make digitally available to the public.
Steven Heller|Essays
Victims of the Image: Ignobility for the Noble Savage
Native Americans have endured a long legacy of distorted images.
Steven Heller|Essays
Command Records’ Design Distinction
Command Records covers are striking for the graphic and branding power of the abstract format.
Steven Heller|Reviews
Reinventing The Holocaust Narrative
Steven Heller on Marina Willer’s new documentary, Red Trees.
Steven Heller|Essays
The Fountain of East Village Youth and Birthplace of the Egg Cream Is Gone
As a kid knowing I would be treated to an egg cream while waiting for a carton of hand-scooped coffee ice cream was all the encouragement I needed to trek all the way up to the Bronx on every third Sunday to visit my grandparents.
Steven Heller|Essays
Image Captures: Change the Canon
“The challenge was to balance the known while capturing the unknown.” Steven Heller on finding new artifacts on which design can evolve.
Steven Heller|Interviews
Guilt-Free Magazine
The internet is wonderful for certain things. The print-is-dead conversation is tedious. It’s all changing, inevitably, and magazine sales have dwindled but I don’t think that’s because the audience has disappeared, I …
Steven Heller|Essays
New Age Propaganda: The Trailer
Rather than psychological warfare, call this ideological “peacefare.”