Steven Heller (graphic design) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Steven Heller is an American

United States

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Art director

The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....

, journalist

Journalist

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, critic

Critic

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, author

Author

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, and editor

Editing

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who specializes on topics related to graphic design

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

.

Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration

Illustration

An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...

, typography

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...

, and many subjects related to graphic design

Graphic design

. He has published more than eighty titles and written articles for magazines including Affiche, Baseline
Baseline (magazine)
Baseline magazine is a magazine devoted to typography, book arts and graphic design.-History:Since Baseline 19, which appeared in 1995, Baseline has been published by Bradbourne Publishing, co-edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert and art-directed by HDR Visual Communication. It is...

, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D.

I.D. (magazine)

I.D. was a magazine covering the art, business and culture of design. It was published eight times a year by F+W Media....

, Oxymoron, Mother Jones
Mother Jones (magazine)
Mother Jones is an American independent news organization, featuring investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Mother Jones has been nominated for 23 National Magazine Awards and has won six times, including for General Excellence in 2001,...

, The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York...

, Print
Print (magazine)
The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.In its current format, Print documents and...

, Speak, and U&lc.

For thirty-three years Heller was a senior art director of U&lc magazine, a publication devoted to typography. As of 2007, he is co-chair with Lita Talarico of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...

in New York City

New York City

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. He has collaborated on books with graphic designer, Louise Fili, who is his wife, as well as with others including the Design Dialogue series.

Works

"Artists' Christmas Cards" New York: A & W Publishers, 1979.
(Editor) Man Bites Man, foreword by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...

, New York: A & W Publishers, 1981.
(Editor) Jules Feiffer's America from Eisenhower to Reagan, New York: Knopf, 1982.
(With Ralph E. Shikes) The Art of Satire: Painters as Caricaturists and Cartoonists from Delacroix to Picasso, New York: Pratt Graphics Center and Horizon, 1984.
(Editor) Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

, The Left-handed Designer, New York: Abrams, 1985, revised as
(With Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

) Graphic Style: From Victorian to Digital, , New York: Abrams, 2001.

(Editor) Innovators of American Illustration, New York: Van Nostrand, 1986.

(Compiler, with Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

and Barbara Cohen) New York Observed: Artists and Writers Look at the City, 1650 to the Present, New York: Abrams, 1987.

(With Lisa Talarico) Design Career: Practical Knowledge for Beginning Illustrators and Graphic Designers, New York: Van Nostrand, 1987.

(With Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

) Graphic Style: From Victorian to Post-Modern, New York: Abrams, 1988.

(Editor, with Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

) Sourcebook of Visual Ideas, New York: Van Nostrand, 1989.

(With Barbara Cohen and Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

) Trylon and Perisphere: The 1939 New York World's Fair, New York: Abrams, 1989.

(With Karen Pomeroy) Designing with Illustration, New York: Van Nostrand, 1990.

(With Anne Fink) Low-Budget, High-Quality Design, New York: Watson-Guptill, 1990.

(With Gail Anderson) Graphic Wit: The Art of Humor in Design, New York: Watson-Guptill, 1991.

(With Karrie Jacobs) Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era, Salt Lake City, Utah: Peregrine Smith Books, 1992.

(With Vicki Gold Levi and Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

) You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby: Baby Pictures of the Stars, New York: Hyperion, 1992.

(With Gail Anderson) The Savage Mirror: The Art of Contemporary Caricature, New York: Watson-Guptill, 1992.

(With Steven Guarnaccia) School Days, Photography by William Whitehurst, New York: Abbeville Press, 1992.

(Compiler, with Anne Fink) Covers & Jackets! What the Best Dressed Books and Magazines Are Wearing, Glen Cover, New York: Library of Applied Design, 1993.

(With Louise Fili) Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

(With Julie Lasky) Borrowed Design: Use and Abuse of Historical Form, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993.

(With Gail Anderson) American Typeplay', New York: Library of Applied Design, 1994.
(With Steven Guarnaccia) Designing for Children, New York: Watson-Guptill, 1994.
(With Louise Fili) Dutch Moderne: Graphic Design from De Stijl to Deco, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.
(Editor with Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning....

, William Drenttel
William Drenttel
William Drenttel is a graphic designer, editor, a partner in Winterhouse Studios, and President Emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts . Drenttel received a BA in European Cultural Studies from Princeton University....

, and D. K. Holland) Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, New York, 1994.
(With Teresa Fernandes) The Business of Illustration, New York: Watson-Guptill, 1995.
(With Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

) Jackets Required: An Illustrated History of American Book Jacket Design, 1920–1950, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.
(With Louise Fili) Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.
(With Anne Fink) That's Entertainment, Library of Applied Design, 1995.
(With James Fraser and Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

) Japanese Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996.
(With Anne Fink) Appetite Appeal: Graphic Design for Food and Drink, Glen Cove, New York: Graphic Details, 1996.
(With Louise Fili) Cover Story: The Art of American Magazine Covers 1900–1950, San Francisco: Chronicle Books (San Francisco, California), 1996.
(With Teresa Fernandes) Magazines: Inside and Out, Glen Cove, New York.: PBC International, 1996.
(With Elinor Pettit) Newsletters Now: From Classic to New Wave, New York: Library of Applied Design, 1996.
(Editor with Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning....

, William Drenttel
William Drenttel
William Drenttel is a graphic designer, editor, a partner in Winterhouse Studios, and President Emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts . Drenttel received a BA in European Cultural Studies from Princeton University....

, and D. K. Holland) Looking Closer 2, New York: Allworth Press, 1997.
French Modern: Art Deco Graphic Design, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997.
(Editor, with Marie Finamore) Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, 'New York: Allworth Press, 1997.
(Interviewer and editor, with Elinor Pettit) Design Dialogues, New York: Allworth Press, 1998.
(Editor) The Education of a Graphic Designer, New York: Allworth Press, 1998.
(With Michael Barson) Teenage Confidential: An Illustrated History of the American Teen, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.
(With Louise Fili) British Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.
(With Louise Fili) German Modern: Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.
(With Anne Fink) Less Is More: The New Simplicity in Graphic Design, Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books, 1999.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand
Paul Rand Paul Rand Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (August 15, 1914 — November 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT...

, London: Phaidon, 1999.
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, New York: Allworth Press, 1999.
(With Teresa Fernandes) Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design, New York: Wiley, 1999.
(Editor with Louise Fili) Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.
(Editor, with Marshall Arisman) The Education of an Illustrator, New York: Allworth Press, 2000.
(Editor, with Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning....

, Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand is an author, columnist and lecturer on graphic design. She is the partner of William Drenttel of Winterhouse Studios, Winterhouse Editions and Winterhouse Institute located in Falls Village, Connecticut. She is a critic in graphic design at Yale University, where she earned her...

, and Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography and visual culture. He began as a general visual arts journalist, working on Blueprint magazine in London. After founding Eye magazine , which he edited from 1990 to 1997, he focused increasingly on visual communication...

) Looking Closer 3: Classic Writings on Graphic Design, New York: Allworth Press, 2000.
(Editor) Sex Appeal: The Art of Allure in Graphic and Advertising Design, New York: Allworth Press, 2000.
(With Michael Barson) Red Scared!: The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Pop Culture, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000.
(With Michael Barson) Wedding Bell Blues: 100 Years of Our Great Romance with Marriage, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000.
The Swastika
Swastika
The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing form in counter clock motion or its mirrored left-facing form in clock motion. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient...

: Symbol Beyond Redemption?, Allworth Press, 2000.
Design Connoisseur: An Eclectic Collection of Imagery and Type, New York: Allworth Press, 2000.
(With Elinor Pettit) Graphic Design Time Line: A Century of Design Milestones, New York: Allworth Press, 2000.
(With Christine Thompson) Letterforms Bawdy, Bad and Beautiful: The Evolution of Hand-drawn, Humorous, Vernacular, and Experimental Type, New York: Watson-Guptill, 2000.
(Editor, with Georgette Ballance) Graphic Design History, New York: Allworth Press, 2001.
(With Mirko Ilić
Mirko Ilic
Mirko Ilić is Croatian and Bosnian graphic designer and comics artist based in New York.-Yugoslavian period:...

) Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design, Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books, 2001.
(Editor) Education of an E-Designer, New York: Allworth Press, 2001.
(Editor, with Philip B. Meggs
Philip B. Meggs
Philip Baxter Meggs was an American graphic designer, professor, historian and author of books on graphic design. His book History of Graphic Design is a definitive, standard read for the study of graphic design....

) Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography, New York: Allworth Press, 2001.
(With Louise Fili) Counter Culture: The Allure of Mini-mannequins, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
Graphic Design Reader, New York: Allworth Press, 2002.
(Editor with Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning....

and William Drenttel
William Drenttel
William Drenttel is a graphic designer, editor, a partner in Winterhouse Studios, and President Emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts . Drenttel received a BA in European Cultural Studies from Princeton University....

) Looking Closer 4: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, New York: Allworth Press, 2002.
(Editor) Education of a Design Entrepreneur, New York: Allworth Press, 2002.
Merz to Emigre
Emigre
Emigre, also known as Emigre Graphics, is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design centered information based in Berkeley, California, that was founded in 1984 by husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko. The type foundry also published Emigre magazine...

and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century, Phaidon, 2003.
Also contributor to Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1989. Editor of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Journal of Graphic Design. Contributor to periodicals, including Communication Arts, Mother Jones, and Print.
Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State, Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...

Inc., 2008. (ISBN 0714848468). Review at New York Times.
(with Mirko Ilić
Mirko Ilic
Mirko Ilić is Croatian and Bosnian graphic designer and comics artist based in New York.-Yugoslavian period:...

) The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design. Gloucester, Mass: Rockport, 2007. ISBN 978-9812455222
(with Lita Talarico) "The Design Entrepreneur" Rockport Press 2008.
(Editor) "Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned" New York: Allworth Press, 2008.
(with Veronique Vienne) "Art Direction Explained At Last" London: Laurence King Publishers, 2009.
(with Lita Talarico) "Design School Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects from International Design Schools" Rockport Pres, 2009.

Articles appearing in Baseline magazine

Paul Rand
Paul Rand
Paul Rand Paul Rand Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (August 15, 1914 — November 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT...

Laboratory, Baseline 27, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 1999.
Believe It or Else!!, Baseline 29, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 1999.
Sho-cards, Baseline 30, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2000.
Transfiguring the Swastika
Swastika
The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing form in counter clock motion or its mirrored left-facing form in clock motion. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient...

, Baseline 31, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2001.
Movie tickets – Japanese Style, Baseline 32, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2001.
The Radical Press in Pre-Nazi Germany, Baseline 33, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2001.
Do It Yourself: The Graphic Design of Punkzines, Baseline 34, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2001.
More Than Wham! Bang! Boom!: The Art and Design of Comics Lettering, Baseline 35, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2001.
Close Shaves and Razor Sharp Graphics, Baseline 36, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2002.
Massin's Typographic Voices, Baseline 37, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2002.
Introducing the First Digital Letterting Tool, Baseline 38, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2002.
Cult of the Cradle – Fascist Style for Il Duce's Children, Baseline 39, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2002.
The Missing Link: Graphic Design Trade Magazine, Baseline 40, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2003.
Paper Bombs – The Art of Psychological Warfare, Baseline 41, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2003.
Merle Armitage – Books of His Time, Baseline 42, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2003.
When Paperbacks Went Highbrow, Baseline 43, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2004.
Alvin Lustig
Alvin Lustig
Alvin Lustig was an American graphic designer and typeface designer. He studied at Los Angeles City College, Art Center, and independently with Frank Lloyd Wright and Jean Charlot. He began designing for books in 1937. In 1944 he became Director of Visual Research for Look Magazine. He also...

– The Lost Adman and His Forgotten Ads, Baseline 44, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2004.
Rudolph de Harak
Rudolph de Harak
Rudolph de Harak, also Rudy de Harak , was an American graphic designer. De Harak was notable as a designer who covered a broad spectrum of applications with a distinctly modernist aesthetic. He was also influential as a professor of design.-Career:De Harak was born in Culver City, California...

– A Playful Modernist, Baseline 45, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2004.
Erik Nitsche – A Biography of a Design Auteur, Baseline 46, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2005.
OHW Hadank – The Classicist Even a Modernist Could Love, Baseline 47, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2005.
Dancing Type and Music Videos, Baseline 48, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2005.
Willhelm Deffke – Modern Mark Maker, Baseline 49, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2006.
TypoAbsurdo – Viktor Koen's Surrealist Alphabet, Baseline 50, edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2006.
Berthold's Hebrew Type Catalog, Baseline 51, edited by Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2007.

Exhibitions (as curator)

The Art of Simplicisimus (The Goethe House)
The Malik Verlag (The Goethe House)
Political Art: Ten Years of Graphic Commentary (AIGA
Aiga
‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...

)
L'Assiette au Beurre (The French Institute)
Cartoonists for a Nuclear Freeze (Marymount College)
The Art of Satire (Pratt Graphic Center)
Graphic Jesters: Two Generations (Schiller Wapner Gallery)
Art Against War (Parsons School of Design)
Typographic Treasures: The Work of W.A. Dwiggins (ITC Gallery)
Push Pin Studio Retrospecitive (Cooper Union
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

)

Introductions and afterwords

AIGA
Aiga
‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...

Graphic Design in America 4 - 16 (Watson Guptil)
Political Art (Abbeville)
Great Illustrators of Our Times (Rizzolli)
A Treasury of German Trademarks (Art Direction)
Graphis Annual Graphis Posters Stars and Stripes (Chronicle)
Trademarks of the 40s and 50s (Chronicle)
Caricatures of Tullio Pericoli (Prestel Verlag)
Great Posters of the World (Kadansha)
IGOGRADA (Kadansha)
Visual Literacy (Watson Guptil)
Graphic Design in America (Walker Art Center/Abrams)
The Art of Leo Lionni (Library of Congress)
Graphic Design U.S.A. Nos. 5 - 17 (AIGA/Watson Guptil)
Who's Who in Graphic Design (Benteli Werd Verlags)
American Pop (Alianza Editorial)
Posters of Rafal Oblinski (Abrams)
Masters of Polish Posters (Berni)
American Typography of the Fifties and Sixties (GGG Gallery, Japan)
Brad Holland (The Swiss Art Director's Club)
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

(GGG Gallery)
The Face of Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...

(SVA Masters)
Illustration U.S.A. (Rockport)
Robert Weaver Retrospective (SVA Masters)
SVA Gold (PBC International)
Italian Graphic Design (Alianza Editorial)
Professional PRactices in Graphic Design (Allworth Press)
Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine....

(Booth Clibborn Editions)
Rebelling Against Rockwell (Pictures for the American People) (High Museum of Art)
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...

: Graphic Designer (LAMoCA)
Alex Steinweiss (Princeton Architectural Press)
Masters of Twentieth Century Design: The ICOGRADA Hall of Fame (Graphis Press)
Zanders 2001 Calendar (Zanders Paper)
2001 Antiwall Calendar/Belgrade Masters of Twentieth Century Design (Graphis Press)
The Graphic Art of Michael Schwab (Graphis Press)
What is Design…? (Metropolis/Princeton Architectural Press)
Keith Goddard (Lars Muller Verlag)
The Art of Fred Marcellino (Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...

Museum)
Sencational (Princeton Architectural Press)
Ads of the 60s (Taschen Books)
Ads of the 30s (Taschen Books)
10 Years of Chrysler Awards (Chrysler Awards)
Illustration 44 (essay on Milton Glaser) (Society of Illustrators)
Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann is a Swiss graphic designer. Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style...

(Lars Muller Verlag)
Artburn by Robbie Conal (RDV Books)
Victor Moscoso (Moscoso)
Ads of the 70s (Taschen Books)
Graphic Design (Gallimard)
Ads of the 20s (Taschen)
Men's Magazines (Taschen)
The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora (Fantagraphics)
Ads of the 80s (Taschen)
Art of Der Spiegel (Te Neues)
Design of Dissent (Rockport)
D-Day: Émigré (Centre Pompidou)
Original Cartoons: The Frederator Studios Postcards (Easton Studio Press)
Icon: Halloween (Taschen)
Icon: Christmas (Taschen)
Ads of 1900-1910 (Taschen)
Brad Holland (Society of Illustrators Annual)
Graphic Imperative (Umass)
Icon: Valentines (Taschen)
Social Graphics (Andreas Rauch)

External links

Resources

Steven Heller Steven Heller homepage
The Daily Heller Heller's blog for Print
Print (magazine)
The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.In its current format, Print documents and...
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Farmington Hills is a community in southeastern Michigan. It is the largest city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Its population was 79,740 at the 2010 census...

: Thomson Gale
Thomson Gale
Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the United States, in the western suburbs of Detroit. It was part of the Thomson Learning division of the Thomson Corporation, a Canadian company, but became part of Cengage Learning in 2007.The company, formerly known...

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Paula Scher
Paula Scher
Paula Scher, born October 6, 1948, in Washington, DC., is an American graphic designer, illustrator, painter and art educator in design, and the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991...

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Aiga
‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...

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