Steven Heller

Illustrator and wanderer Henrik Drescher takes his harmonica to Mongolia, where seldom his heard a discouraging word. For a look at his Home on the Inner Mongolian Range music video click here (home_on_the_range) for a download. For more Henrik, go here. And for Henrik’s Antsandwich project go here. You never know where Henrik will pop [...]

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Is U.S. paper currency inferior to all others? Is it worth the paper it is printed on? Is it the root of all evil? Many designers have questioned the aesthetics (if not the value) of our sacred bills. Now designer Richard Smith brings us “The Dollar ReDe$ign Project,” which he: “… hopes to bring about [...]

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The Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pa., announces the opening of Art of the American Soldier on September 24. The exhibit presents paintings and drawings of battles, as well as extraordinary and everyday experiences that were created by American soldiers in the field and behind the lines. The watercolors, oils and drawings span World War I [...]

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In 1906, suspected terrorist, anarchist, and literary instigator Félix Fénéon wrote more than a thousand small bits for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Each was a bizarre yet enigmatic, fragmentary, often scandalous, report. Illustrator Joanna Neborsky was inspired to visually translate twenty-eight of them using a melange of collage and drawing, comprising her book Illustrated [...]

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“When Fascism comes to America, it will (be in the name of/come under the guise of/be called) anti-Fascism!” said Huey Long, the populist governor of and senator from Louisiana, in 1935. He is also to have said that Fascism will come wrapped in an American flag. That could also mean, an American President. Past American [...]

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I was waiting in the wings to give a lecture at the Broward County Library, in Southern Florida, when I heard someone with a heavy German accent say: “Ist Meehster Heller, here?” I turned around and saw a diminutive gentleman, with a bright pink face, white hair and beard, the spitting image of Sigmund Freud, [...]

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420 Characters is a online book of stories (limited to 420 characters each, including spaces and punctuation) by illustrator Lou Beach. “I started out filling in the ‘status update’ box on Facebook with short fiction musings rather than the usual b.s. last year,” Beach told me. “Turned out people liked them and I liked the [...]

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If you haven’t already, you’ve got to see Jacques Tati’s fourth, and most complex, choreographically brilliant film, Playtime.  You can actually see it here. But if you want a much better print go here. Playtime is Tati’s most ambitious film. Shot in 1964 through 1967 and released in 1967, Playtime features Tati as Monsieur Hulot, [...]

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I just finished reading Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson. It is not a design book per se, but it is about the “design” of an emblematic, classic film adapted from Truman Capote’s bestselling novel about a free-spirited Texas transplant turned call [...]

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The School of Visual Arts Gallery presents “Where’s My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran” exhibition, from August 30 through September 25. This exhibition features over 125 political posters by graphic artists world wide, created in support of the protests in Iran that followed the 2009 presidential election. The exhibition is the first [...]

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