Steve Heller
Born in 1950, Steven Heller has developed a brand as a revolutionary graphic designer. His long and successful career has been attributed to his multifaceted career. He is American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes on topics related to graphic design. He has established himself as one with not only an eye for graphics but an appreciation and talent for writing. He has published works in several publications such as Affiche, Baseline,Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye Graphis, How, I.D., Oxymoron, Mother Jones,The New York Times Book Review, Print, Speak, and U&lc magazines. Over the past 20 years Heller has been contributing editor to Print, Eye, Baseline, and I.D. magazines, and has had contributed hundreds of articles, critical essays. He published scores of critical and journalistic writers on design, and currently is editor of AIGA Voice: Online Journal of Whether as an author, co-author, and/or editor Heller has contributed to well over 100 books on design and popular culture, Heller has worked with a many publishers, including Chronicle Books, Allworth Press, Harry N. Abrams, Phaidon Press, Taschen Press, Abbeville Press, Thames & Hudson, Rockport, Northlight, and more. Currently Heller is completing "Iron Fists: Branding the Totalitarian State" for Phaidon Press, an analysis of how the major dictatorships used graphics to propagate their ideologies.
He is the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he lectures on the history of graphic design. Before founding this program he taught the history of illustration in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual arts for 14 years and was directed for ten years of SVA’s Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design symposiums.
Heller has produced or been curator of a number of exhibitions, including "Art Against War," "The Satiric Image: Painters as Cartoonists and Caricaturists," "The Malik Verlag," and "The Art of Simplicissumus: Germany’s Most Influential Satire Magazine," among them. He has organized various conferences, including The School of Visual Arts’ "How We Learn What We Learn," devoted to the future of design education, and the AIGA’s "Looking Closer: Graphic Design History and Criticism."
Heller is received the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame Special Educators Award in 1996, The Pratt Institute Herschel Levitt Award in 2000, and the Society of Illustrators Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction in 2006.
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About Steven Heller
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Designing with illustration by Steven Heller and Karen Pomeroy New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990
