Steven Heller

Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts and co-founder of the MFA Design Criticism program. More

Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts and co-founder of the MFA Design Criticism program. He writes the "Visuals" column for The New York Times Book Review, "Graphic Content" for T-Style's "The Moment" blog, and The Daily Heller for Print magazine. He is the author or editor of over 140 books on design and popular visual culture.
The Art of Facebook

The Art of Facebook

Inside the company's Analog Research Laboratory, where designer Ben Barry is "packaging" Facebook's corporate persona More »

Do Good Logos Need to Actually, You Know, Look Good?

Do Good Logos Need to Actually, You Know, Look Good?

The definitive book on corporate branding makes the case that successful companies have successful designs—but the relationship between those successes remains mysterious. More »

A Selection of Kids-Book Concepts Too Strange to Publish

A Selection of Kids-Book Concepts Too Strange to Publish

Veteran children's author Seymour Chwast shares concepts from his rejection pile, from a tale of an adventuring granny to a fanciful car-show catalog. More »

The Lessons of a Cartoonist's Crusade Against McCarthyism

The Lessons of a Cartoonist's Crusade Against McCarthyism

The new documentary Herblock: The Black & White shows how one editorial caricaturist's ideals persisted over the decades—and still matter today. More »

<i>Gonwards</i>: A Reminder of How Elaborate and Playful Album Art Can Be

Gonwards: A Reminder of How Elaborate and Playful Album Art Can Be

A boxed set from Andy Partridge of XTC and Peter Blegvad of Slapp Happy repurposes 1930s Russian typography and the Mexican game of Loteria to complement its songs. More »

Bert Stern's Beautiful Photography and Less-Beautiful Personal Life, on Screen

Bert Stern's Beautiful Photography and Less-Beautiful Personal Life, on Screen

A new documentary shows two sides of the man who took some of the most iconic celebrity photographs of the 20th century: creative genius and womanizer. More »

The Colorful, Subversive History of Women Getting Tattoos

The Colorful, Subversive History of Women Getting Tattoos

A recently reissued book traces how body art went from forbidden to trendy. More »

Stop Talking About 'Fake News,' Says Fake-News Pioneer

Stop Talking About 'Fake News,' Says Fake-News Pioneer

Comedy vet Tony Hendra's latest venture, The Final Edition, like its competitor The Onion, parodies newsgatherers and world events to make very-real points. More »

The Guy Who Leaves Modern Trash at Roman Ruins

The Guy Who Leaves Modern Trash at Roman Ruins

Don't worry, it's for art. More »

'We're Probably the Least Food-Filled Food Magazine Out There'

'We're Probably the Least Food-Filled Food Magazine Out There'

'Swallow' aims to be part periodical, part coffee-table book, part passport, and part dinner-party argument starter. More »

Shahnameh, Re-Imagined: A Colorful New Vision of Old Iranian Folklore

Shahnameh, Re-Imagined: A Colorful New Vision of Old Iranian Folklore

Filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian's new book brings vivid life to the epic tales of the ancient Persian kings. More »

Just How Bitter, Petty, and Tragic Was Comic-Strip Genius Al Capp?

Just How Bitter, Petty, and Tragic Was Comic-Strip Genius Al Capp?

Writing a biography of the "Li'l Abner" creator meant confronting just how mean, and kind, he could be. More »

Duplitectural Marvels: Exploring China's Replica Western Cities

Duplitectural Marvels: Exploring China's Replica Western Cities

Why's there a Paris in Hangzhou? Or a Holland in Shanghai? More »

A Fascinating, Fake Biography for a Fascinating, Real Photographer

A Fascinating, Fake Biography for a Fascinating, Real Photographer

Robert Seidman's novel 'Moments Captured' embellishes the tale of Eadweard Muybridge. More »

What's So Bad About Copying? An Art Gallery Scrutinizes Unoriginality

What's So Bad About Copying? An Art Gallery Scrutinizes Unoriginality

New York art space P! is devoting six months to imitations, rip-offs, and reproductions. More »

The Revenge of Margaret Brundage, 'The Queen of the Pulps'

The Revenge of Margaret Brundage, 'The Queen of the Pulps'

Her sci-fi art in the '30s was controversial for its raciness—and for the fact that it was made by a woman. More »

I Want My Helvetica: MTV's Millenial-Friendly Minimalist Design

I Want My Helvetica: MTV's Millenial-Friendly Minimalist Design

For a less outwardly rebellious, small-screen generation, Jeffrey Keyton overhauled the network's visuals. More »

A More Perfect Stamp: Designing the USPS's Emancipation-Proclamation Art

A More Perfect Stamp: Designing the USPS's Emancipation-Proclamation Art

Modern concepts met antique methods for the proclamation's 150th anniversary stamp. More »

Learning How to Grieve in Color

Learning How to Grieve in Color

Part graphic novel and part memoir, Danny Gregory's 'A Kiss Before You Go' recounts the designers' wife's death. More »

P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T: The Artist Who Draws With Letters

P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T: The Artist Who Draws With Letters

Designer Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich has embraced the possibilities of using fonts to illustrate images. More »

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Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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