with Steven Heller
Dubbed a “must-follow feed in the world of design” by Wired magazine, The Daily Heller is AIGA Medalist, Smithsonian National Design Award winner, Art Directors Hall of Fame Laureate and former Boy Scout Steven Heller’s lively look at the past, present and future of the world of visual culture around him.
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The Daily Heller: Modernism in Castro’s Cuba
Cuba was a wellspring of European-influenced Modernism and a launchpad for Modernist designers.
Featured
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The Daily Heller: Where Were All the Women Illustrators and Artists of Color?
Steven Heller reflects on the 1982 exhibition and catalog “Great Illustrators of Our Time.”
The Daily Heller: For Me, an Unusually Sentimental Post-Father’s Day Musing
Steven Heller saves his jaundiced retelling of the history of commercial holidays for another time, and seriously reflects on fatherhood.
Great Posters
The past year and a half has seen a boom in the art of the poster. Here, Steven Heller homes in on some highlights.
The Daily Heller: Trump is Broadsided
Ward Schumaker has turned scores of Donald Trump’s bon mots into typographic posters.
The Daily Heller: New York “Wonder City” in Posters
Poster House’s new exhibition is a finely curated treasure trove of bills definitely designed to be proudly posted.
The Daily Heller: A Poster Museum Where Movies Began, in New Jersey
Richard Koszarski shines the spotlight on preserving and displaying the printed artifacts of the movie world.
The Daily Heller: Tolerance is Celebrated in Lahore, Pakistan
The Tolerance Poster Show—which has appeared 81 times in 40 countries since 2017—just opened its second run in Pakistan.
The Daily Heller: 20 Years, 600 Concert Posters, a Legacy of Music Design
“Let it Bleed” is a 444-page monograph of Jeffrey Everett’s epic work.
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After a nearly 30-year pause, “Summit” is back.
The Daily Heller: Give the Red the Blues
Ad man Lowell Thompson is back with a democratic soundtrack.
The Daily Heller: Paolo Garretto, Smooth Operator
During the ’20s and ’30s Paolo Garretto was a giant of international advertising design and editorial art.
The Daily Heller: Modernity South of the Border
As the study of design history expands, Latin America is becoming known for its avant gardes.
The Daily Heller: Supergraphics Supernova Barbara Stauffacher Solomon Dead at 95
The doyen of California modern design died on May 7.
The Daily Heller: One Helluva Wild Party
Behind the scenes of “the sexist Broadway cast shoot that never saw the light of day.”
The Daily Heller: A Lighter Shade of Palette
“The Book of Colour Concepts” is the final word on color as an essential life force.
The Daily Heller: An Homage to Needlepoint Typeface Design
“Ace in the Hole,” and a question: Did needlepoint influence bitmapping?
Focus on Welcoming
First Person American and Active Voice, in partnership with Shelbyville Multimedia, present “Welcoming Stories,” the series of five pilot episodes featuring immigrants telling their story of a person who helped them when they first came to America. Welcoming Stories aims to encourage Americans to become more welcoming, and to inspire other immigrants to share their own story about someone who made a big difference in their lives when they first arrived. The pilot episo