Steven Heller

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The Daily Heller: Paul Rand’s Wisdom to Welcome SummerPosted inThe Daily Heller Next week, PRINT unveils the winners of its 2024 awards. Each day will be dedicated to the designers and designs that deserve celebration. One consequence, thank you very much, is a week off for The Daily Heller.

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David Jury is one of the UK’s most prolific type historians/practitioners. He covers the gamut of typographic evolution. Two years ago, his book Mid-Century Type provided students with a concise overview of the slippery slope of functional commercial versus artistic experimental type production—and his new volume, Type Designers of the Twentieth Century, is a welcome addition to the growing library of type origin stories.

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Committee on Un-American Activities, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, “100 Things You Should Know About Communism in the USA”, 1949. Courtesy of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. Image Courtesy of Boston Public Library via Internet ArchiveThe Red Scare lasted throughout the Cold War. It turned postwar Americans into a suspicious fear-driven society.

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The Daily Heller: How Effective Were This Past Weekend’s Handmade Signs? Posted inThe Daily Heller Photo: Texas Public Radio, via the internetThe mother of all handmade protest signs— “War is not healthy for children and other living things,” by the printmaker Lorriane Schneider (1925–1972)—was not intended as a poster, but rather a card.

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The Daily Heller: Thought Matter Deconstructs Censorship Posted inThe Daily Heller At the NYCxDESIGN Festival in May—which kicked off with the theme “Design is for Everyone”—the activist firm Thought Matter hosted an evening interrogating that very theme with a simple but obvious question: “Is it?” When books are banned and language itself becomes politicized, design may be accessible … but not everyone is allowed to have a say. At the event, dubbed “CENSOR THIS,” over 200 designers, artists,...