Steven Heller

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.”

Steven Heller|Essays

When Good Humor Ice Cream was Hot

The audio rebranding of Good Humor ice cream.

Steven Heller|Essays

Anti-War Comics Were No Laughing Matter

The genre of “pro-war” or at least war-themed comics has long dominated the comic book field, but a new book from Craig Yoe reveals that there was an element of dissent in the comics world.

Steven Heller|Essays

Where Do I Put My Stuff: Saving Graphic Design Ephemera

Designers more often than not tend to be collectors, if not crazy hoarders, of design and pop culture stuff.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Americanization of 20s New Typography; Or the Soft Sell of the Avant Garde

Die Neue Typographie (The New Typography), the early 20th century revolution in graphic design, is being re-evaluated this year in light of the Bauhaus centenary.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Sunday Funnies on Wednesday

This story is as much a tribute to Peter Maresca’s incredible preservation vision as it is a salute to his latest collection: "Gross Exaggerations: The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross."