Design Matters Today with my hero, Steve Heller

Joining me today on a very special broadcast of Design Matters is Steven Heller.

Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts and the co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism. He has been a senior art director at the New York Times and currently writes the new quarterly "Visuals" column in the New York Times Book Review, as well as obituaries on designers and illustrators. He is the editor of AIGA's VOICE: Online Journal of Design, and the author, editor, or co-author of over 100 book on design and visual culture, most recently "Stylepedia: A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits" with Louise Fili, and Anatomy of design: A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits" with Mirko Ilic, and "Shop America," with Jim Heimann. He is currently working on "IRON FISTS: Branding the Totalitarian State" for Phaidon Books and a biogaphy of Alvin Lustig with Elaine Lustig Cohen for Chronicle. In October, the School of Visual Arts will devote a retrospective exhibition to his art direction and authorship. For more of his work you can go to www.hellerbooks.com

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