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Steven Heller

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 Accidental Futurist: Steven M. Johnson's Alternate Realities

The Accidental Futurist: Steven M. Johnson's Alternate Realities

A designer dreams up everything from hot-tub cars to shoes with headlights—and sometimes predicts the future… More »

How Can We Be Happy? 2 Designers Create a Film to Find Out

How Can We Be Happy? 2 Designers Create a Film to Find Out

The Happy Film examines what happens when we follow psychologists' advice—and when we do things that scare us… More »

Cold War Relics: The Wende Museum Saves Communist Design

Cold War Relics: The Wende Museum Saves Communist Design

From children's toys to chunks of the Berlin Wall, this collection is showing that Cold War design is more than propaganda… More »

'Sexy' iPad Maps: A Designer's Interactive New York Streetscapes

'Sexy' iPad Maps: A Designer's Interactive New York Streetscapes

Stephan Van Dam's 3D maps are already in the MoMA—and his new app boldly goes where no mapmaker has gone before… More »

The World's Best Design Magazine?

The World's Best Design Magazine?

FORM magazine—an essential read for anyone who cares about product or graphic design—shows why print design publications are still better than websites… More »

Redesigning the Past: A Magazine Helps Save a Dying Language

Redesigning the Past: A Magazine Helps Save a Dying Language

How the former art director of SPY turned the Yiddish magazine Pakn Treger into an inspiring mix of Jewish history and modern design… More »

The Ultimate Guide to the Steampunk Movement

The Ultimate Guide to the Steampunk Movement

Ray guns, goggles, and giant mechanical creations fill the pages of the beautiful, old-meets-new Steampunk Bible… More »

A Father of Web Design, Kept Alive by His Son

A Father of Web Design, Kept Alive by His Son

Ignored for decades, the design pioneer Ladislav Sutnar might have been forgotten—but his son, Radislav, made sure that didn't happen… More »

Design History Hoodies: Target Embraces Vintage Type

Design History Hoodies: Target Embraces Vintage Type

A mega-retailer and a tiny wood type museum in Wisconsin join forces to bring a different kind of style to the back-to-school crowd… More »

Finally in English: The World's Best Type Reference Guide

Finally in English: The World's Best Type Reference Guide

Joep Pohlen's Letter Fountain, a handbook that stands out in design publishing's most crowded category, has hit American shelves… More »

Why Google Will Never Beat Old-Fashioned Design Research

Why Google Will Never Beat Old-Fashioned Design Research

The teacher of a "No Google!" design class explains the importance of digging up objects—and their stories—by hand… More »

The King of the Sunday Funnies

The King of the Sunday Funnies

Peter Maresca's quest to preserve the look and feel of America's original Sunday comic strips by becoming an "accidental publisher"—and printing unusually large books… More »

Do Federal Nutritionists Get Graphic Design? Maybe Not

Do Federal Nutritionists Get Graphic Design? Maybe Not

MyPlate, which replaced the Food Pyramid, is pleasing and colorful. But it's a logo, not a chart—and that's a problem.… More »

The Real Helvetica: A Designer Restores the Original Font

The Real Helvetica: A Designer Restores the Original Font

Helvetica wasn't always the cold, rational typeface it is today. For the first time, someone is bringing back its beauty.… More »

Pakistan: An Emerging Design Nation

Pakistan: An Emerging Design Nation

A new book shows off the country's sometimes flamboyant, often nuanced, and nearly always overlooked design culture… More »

Design Blogs: The New Museums

Design Blogs: The New Museums

Lacking the burdens of tradition, bloggers are increasingly functioning as collectors and curators of design. A close look at a good example, 50 Watts.… More »

The Death of Print: NYC Tries to Save Typographic History

The Death of Print: NYC Tries to Save Typographic History

Old-school print shops like Bowne & Co. are vanishing. How long will a group of devoted fans be able to cling to the past?… More »

Designing for Destruction: The Rise of the Bomb Shelter

Designing for Destruction: The Rise of the Bomb Shelter

How architects, designers, and the government taught Baby Boomers to stop worrying and love protective structures… More »

The Most Beautiful Magazine You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Most Beautiful Magazine You Probably Haven't Heard Of

Esopus prints some of the most ambitious covers around—and its designer and editor is almost entirely self-taught… More »

Saving a Mecca of Type: Photo-Lettering Fonts Go Digital

Saving a Mecca of Type: Photo-Lettering Fonts Go Digital

The most important typeface company of the '60s—maybe the most important ever—is born again online… More »

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