Steven Heller

I bet many of you don't know what the Michelin Man, also known as the Bibendum, is made of. Take a wild guess! French cartoonist Marius Rossillon, also known as O'Galop, created the prototype for a Munich brewery (he was holding a glass of beer and quoting Horace's phrase "Nunc est bibendum" -- now's the [...]

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On May 18-20, the University of Chicago is hosting a conference called "Comics: Philosophy & Practice" that will bring together 17 world-renowned graphic novelists for three days of lectures and public conversation at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Attendees include Alison Bechdel, Lynda Barry, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Joe Sacco, Art [...]

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Both U.S. political parties are playing politics with food aid. And Oxfam America is angry. Their recent advertising campaign, created by Hill Holliday, USA, "Tell Washington to Stop Playing with Food Aid," takes a non-partisan/non-gender stance against the stubborn donkeys and elephants who fill the pockets of special interest groups when they should be "helping [...]

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Open Manifesto 6 is wending its way from down under to the rest of us. This issue devoted to "Myth" is a jam packed with insight on design, featuring words by Warren Berger, Andy Chen, Nils Clauss, George Lois, David Mellonie and more. For those unfamiliar with Open Manifesto here is what its founder, Kevin [...]

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Illustrative lettering at its finest can be found at The Tony & Gerry Show: An Exhibition of Iconic Hand Lettering, Drawings and Illustrative Letter Forms. This is the work of Tony Di Spigna (ITC Serif Gothic, The Mood is Hopper, Oh Baby, Bobby Fischer) and Gerard Huerta (ACDC, BlackJack, Bronco Billy, The Handmade Cigars. . [...]

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Long gone TV personality Art Linkletter had a segment on his show House Party called "Kids Say The Darnedest Things." Well, now its mom's turn. Just in time for Mother's Day, Time magazine has created a stir with its Are You Mom Enough cover. Here's what Time has to say on its website: The subjects [...]

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Sheet music from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries was, shall we say, the record cover art of its day. Before 78 rpm records were bound into albums with illustrated covers, sheet music was the primary platform for home entertainment. And early on, music publishers understood the virtue in adorning the "first page" [...]

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The Ukrainian poet Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814 –1861) was the premier literary figure of his homeland, the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature of the 19th century and a major figure of the Ukrainian national revival. These commemorative envelopes (in the U.S. known as First Day Covers) graphically celebrate the life of Shevchenko. There are many [...]

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Seymour Chwast's latest children's book (for all of us), Get Dressed (Abrams) are words and pictures to live by. And if you are much too busy getting dressed, Mr. Chwast is pleased to read those words to you on this video. And you can learn about his process of creating the book here. Nonetheless, I [...]

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Hala A.Malak and Tarek Atrissi have announced the launch of KAFLAB Foundation, through which they will create a community and start discourse on the Arab world through design. "Exploring sensitive and controversial topics," they say, "will help social change and push a generation of designers to challenge the status quo and redefine identity, religion free! [...]

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