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.
Maira Kalman on What It Was Like Illustrating Pollan's 'Food Rules'

Maira Kalman on What It Was Like Illustrating Pollan's 'Food Rules'

Given that Kalman is the Michael Pollan of the visual world, it is fitting and proper that the two teamed up on this deliciously colorful edition More »

A Graphic Identity Made of and for SALT, the New Cultural Institution

A Graphic Identity Made of and for SALT, the New Cultural Institution

SALT's flexible identity system is not simply mutation for its own sake. It is change with the intention of creating an awareness about design. More »

Roger Law's Odyssey: From Satire on TV to China's Porcelain City

Roger Law's Odyssey: From Satire on TV to China's Porcelain City

After fourteen years of roasting everyone from Princess Diana to Margaret Thatcher on his TV show, Law gave it all up to throw clay More »

Paula Scher Makes Enormous Maps That Are Only Sort of Right

Paula Scher Makes Enormous Maps That Are Only Sort of Right

A partner in the design firm Pentagram, Scher started painting maps because it forces her to have patience, a trait she lacks in daily life More »

Testing a Tattly: Temporary Tattoos Created by Professional Designers

Testing a Tattly: Temporary Tattoos Created by Professional Designers

Horrified by her young daughter's clip-art temporaries, Tina Roth Eisenberg, the designer known as Swiss Miss, created some of her own More »

The Outrage of a Comic Master: Edward Sorel's Subversive Career

The Outrage of a Comic Master: Edward Sorel's Subversive Career

The School of Visual Arts honors Sorel this month with a 'Masters Series' exhibition of his illustrations for many of the major magazines More »

Masterpieces of Graphic Simplicity: Pictoplasma's Character Explosion

Masterpieces of Graphic Simplicity: Pictoplasma's Character Explosion

The digital character, so popular now it can be found everywhere from websites to billboards, will be celebrated at an upcoming conference More »

The Prop Master: Ross Macdonald, Forger for Screens Big and Small

The Prop Master: Ross Macdonald, Forger for Screens Big and Small

When he's not working as a typographer and editorial illustrator, Macdonald makes tens of thousands of props for movies and television More »

Smearing Power With Wheat Paste: Robbie Conal's Portraits

Smearing Power With Wheat Paste: Robbie Conal's Portraits

Conal thought he was cured after the election of Barack Obama, but his adversarial art is back now -- and with a vengeance More »

The (Now Sacred) Visual Icons Created in the Wake of 9/11

The (Now Sacred) Visual Icons Created in the Wake of 9/11

Of the many icons created after 9/11, those makeshift memorials and haunting "missing" flyers were the most devastatingly sad More »

Let the 80s Roll: In the Design World, Octogenarians Rule

Let the 80s Roll: In the Design World, Octogenarians Rule

Age is often associated with creative obsolescence—so why are so many of the oldest designers still so good? More »

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 »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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