Steven Heller

Steven Heller|Essays

On Being Displaced

I felt queasy entering my office last Friday for the first time in almost nine months, since the Covid-19 lockdown in mid-March.

Steven Heller|Interviews

Jonathan Barnbrook Jolts Electronic Music with Design

An interview with Jonathan Barnbrook about taking refuge in electronic music, his new cd, and accompanying uniquely illustrated five-hundred-page book.

Steven Heller|Essays

A Brief Plea for EZ VOTE

Steven Heller wonders why some ambitious design-engineer-programmer has not yet invented the EZ-Pass reader or Global Entry kiosk equivalent for voters — EZ Vote.

Steven Heller|Essays

Power Through Restraint

In my memory, the newspaper of record has never unleashed such a full-bore graphic condemnation of a sitting president in an entire section, particularly where the photography and typography were so damn elegantly art directed.

Steven Heller|Essays

Reverse Migration: A Growing Pain

I am a rock ribbed, original New Yawka.

Steven Heller|Essays

E. McKnight Kauffer: Reappreciation Delayed

The unfortunate postponement of the exhibit is palpable. It promises to be an eye opener and hopefully will attract a large in-person number of culturally starved visitors at the Cooper Hewitt when Covid-19 loosens its grip.

Steven Heller|Essays

Milton Glaser’s First Last Hurrah

Sketch & Finish illustrates Glaser’s teaching agenda, which is to say, one makes sketches to explore the unknown.

Steven Heller|Essays

Exclusion Illustrated

Many respected Americans accepted eugenics. Justice Holmes wrote an 8 - 1 court decision that made forced sterilization federal law.

Steven Heller|Interviews

Undercovering a Lost Photographic Genius

Turning the pages I was transported into a surreal sphere that was created, as I read in the text on the exquisitely typeset pages, by Shimmel Zohar.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Loneliness of the Remote-Distance Teacher

Distance teaching is a difficult, lonely skill.

Steven Heller|Essays

Lou Rogers: Suffragist Cartoonist

Rogers was an outspoken reformer, using her voice and body as weapons in the battles for the vote and other fundamental human rights that were denied women.

Steven Heller|Interviews

A Travel Guide Just For Black Americans

Candacy A. Taylor’s research on Green Book Project has been ongoing, and although the publication of Overground Railroad was not planned to coincide with The Black Lives Matters surge during the Covid-19 period, it is an opportune …