Steven Heller: 24 books
POP
How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design, illustration, satiric and political art (and other things),...
Graphic Design Rants and Raves
Bon Mots on Persuasion, Entertainment, Education, Culture, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Design is everywhere. Graphic design enters into everything. This is the scope of designer Steven Heller’s latest essay anthology that covers the spectrum of graphic design and related art and culture. Looking at design as practice, language, culture, and power, each of the forty-plus essays is...
by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Renowned designer, author, critic, co-chair of SVA’s MFA program in design and National Design Award recipient Steven Heller reaches into the most contemplative recesses of his mind to offer an entertaining new collection of ruminations on the nature and future of design. In Design Cult-the first of...
by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
From the lost art of show-card writing and the tumultuous days of guerrilla magazine publishing to the latest in electronic leaflet design and hot magazine covers, acclaimed graphic designer and author Steven Heller provides dozens of stunning examples of how graphic design has transformed from a subset of pop culture to a cultural driving force on its own.
Design Literacy
Understanding Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that have engaged...
Design Culture
An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
Presenting a significant selection of seventy-eight essays, interviews, and symposia from the pioneering AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Culture examines the coming of age of graphic design as a profession and its role in shaping our culture. A diverse group of leading designers, editors, academics,...
The Swastika
Symbol Beyond Redemption?
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
"Force[s] even the most sophisticated to rethink and rework their ideas of how images work in the world."--School Library Journal.* Traces the history of the swastika, from religious symbol to reviled symbol * More than 175 illustrations * Powerful examination of the impact of one graphic symbol on...
by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Revised and updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic design. Top designers and educators talk theory, offer proposals, discuss a wide range of educational concerns-such...
Design Literacy
Understanding Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
This update to the first book to provide explicit case histories of the successful marriage of form and content in graphic design explores more than 125 classic and contemporary works-30 of them brand new-explaining why they are aesthetically significant and how they function as good design. These...
by Steven Heller, Marshall Arisman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
his guide to the ins and outs of today's dynamic illustration business tells budding illustrators everything that their teacher didn't know or their art director didn't tell them. Using an entertaining, running narrative format to look at key concerns every illustrator must face today, this book covers...
The Moderns
Midcentury American Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters;...
Teaching Graphic Design
Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country’s leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, bricks and mortar” approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly...
Design Disasters
Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
The thrill of victory
the agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking-and...
Citizen Designer
Perspectives on Design Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
What does it mean to be a designer in today’s corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designerattempts to answer this question with more than 70 debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the...
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