Steven Heller

Steven Heller|Essays

My New Best Friend

My new best friend is ZOOM, I’ve played around with Skype, Google HangOut, Facetime, and GoToMeeting, but ZOOM gives me so much more.

Steven Heller|Essays

A Tale of Two Covers

Which was a better message for it respective readerships?

Steven Heller|Essays

Archival Gold

Archives are more than warehouses, they are greenhouses for the nurturing of narratives. Out of archival seeds mighty stories grow.

Steven Heller|Interviews

The Plot Against America

Steven Heller interviews veteran prop designer Eric Rosenberg, who designed David Simon’s mini-series of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America for HBO.

Steven Heller|Essays

Robert Massin

Steven Heller remembers Robert Massin.

Steven Heller|Interviews

Arthur Szyk Forever Relevant!

“To call [Arthur] Szyk a ‘cartoonist’ is tantamount to calling Rembrandt a dauber or Chippendale a carpenter.”

Steven Heller|Essays

What’s Black and White and Re(a)d All Over?

Steven Heller on The New York Times in the 1930s and 40s and the Communist party.

Steven Heller|Interviews

Posters of Caution and Hope From Chernobyl

An interview with Oleg Veklenko, a Ukrainian graphic designer conscripted into the cleanup and mitigation near the exploded Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the first “hottest” two months of accident.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Apperception Test That Sealed My Fate

I’ve been influenced by many images, sounds, and words, but unbeknown to me, my future once hinged on my response to one 8-by-10 illustrated card.

Steven Heller|Essays

Beauty For Sale

Beauty is a business — a design business — that demands conformity, especially among non-conformists.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Printing Cut That Tore The Union Asunder

In almost every American type foundry specimen catalog published during the antebellum period, were functional little spots or “cuts” that were mostly innocuous pictures of sundries, consumables, professional signs, and …

Steven Heller|Books

The Influence of Nightlife on Design

Cabarets, cafes, and nightclubs are as essential to the development of Modern avant garde art and design movements as are galleries, salons, and museums.