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.
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 »

George Nelson's Iconic Ball Clock—and Why I Hated It

George Nelson's Iconic Ball Clock—and Why I Hated It

The perils of editing a design journal (and famous designers), and a hate/love relationship with a mid-century timepiece More »

The Next World Design Capital: Ireland?

The Next World Design Capital: Ireland?

A country's bid to leave behind stodgy Celtic imagery and get out of the shadow of England and Northern Europe More »

How Hollywood Butchered Its Best Movie Posters

How Hollywood Butchered Its Best Movie Posters

Saul Bass invented some of the most iconic film graphics of the 20th century—and DVDs have destroyed his work More »

Soap: The Next iPad?

Soap: The Next iPad?

What cunning marketer transformed a humble bath commodity into a stylish, alluring design object? How soap grew to be about more than just cleanliness. More »

The Most Technologically Advanced Book for the iPad?

The Most Technologically Advanced Book for the iPad?

An app transports Alice from Wonderland to New York City—and fuses classic illustrations with complex physics More »

How Mighty Ping-Pong Infiltrated Visual Culture

How Mighty Ping-Pong Infiltrated Visual Culture

Table tennis has been propaganda. It has been a symbol of suburbia. And images of it have covered ... nearly everything. More »

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