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4 days ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: Poland’s Logo Design Ignited FreedomPosted inThe Daily Heller The Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki just narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, “delivering a big blow to the centrist government’s efforts to cement Warsaw’s pro-European orientation,” reports Reuters.
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5 days ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: A Country is Only as Good as Its TrademarksPosted inThe Daily Heller “The Strathmore Paper Company began on St. Patrick’s Day in 1892,” reads the official corporate history, “when founder, Horace Moses opened the Mittineague paper mill in West Springfield, MA.
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1 week ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: Presenting Poster Pop PaintingsPosted inThe Daily Heller Aguinaldo Perrone identifies as an artist whose primary influences are commercial adverts and posters—and, more to the point, the street itself.
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1 week ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: The Dirty Secret of Modern ManagementPosted inThe Daily Heller Modernity is a slippery slope. It defines society and culture in many ways, through art, commerce and technology. The Nazis were ideologically opposed to modern art as an affront to the Germanic ethos, but took their own contemporary spin on business.
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1 week ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
I was selected to give the keynote address for SVA’s 50th commencement celebration. After 68 rewrites, the following is the most important speech I’ve ever delivered. Thank you to all who supported and urged me to do this. Photos: Todd CarrollIt is a great privilege to speak at this 50th commencement ceremony. Thank you, President David Rhodes, Provost Chris Cyphers, the Commencement Committee, SVA board members and the Greek chorus of my colleagues, collaborators and compatriots sitting behind me.
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1 week ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
What do we know about real or artificial intelligence? We know that like every newly hyped invention, fear follows form follows function. But for a more nuanced reality check with more intellectual acuity, I spoke with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, AI researcher, CTO of technology and society at Google, and James Goggin, a U.K.-based book designer and founder/partner of Practice about Agüera y Arcas’ enigmatic new volume designed by the latter titled What Is Intelligence?
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2 weeks ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: When Undergrounds Shined the LightPosted inThe Daily Heller England was the epicenter of cool during the ’60s, not only because the Beatles and Stones spawned some of the great music and fashion innovations of the era, but also due to the wellspring of underground newspapers there.
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2 weeks ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: Worth the Paper It’s Drawn OnPosted inThe Daily Heller Would the artist who anonymously donated considerable effort designing ersatz currency, pasted on a West 17th Street New York construction hoarding, please stand up and accept our gratitude for an ingenious act of public protest art?
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2 weeks ago | 
l8r.it | Steven Heller
Would the artist who anonymously donated considerable effort designing ersatz currency, pasted on a West 17th Street New York construction hoarding, please stand up and accept our gratitude for an ingenious act of public protest art? The one-, two-, five- and 100-dollar notes feature clever barbs against President Trump’s executive overreach and the current MAGA agenda. The bills are deceivingly accurate until on closer scrutiny they reveal the unknown artist’s intentionally flawed handwork.
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2 weeks ago | 
printmag.com | Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: Ben Shahn Returns to the New York Art ScenePosted inThe Daily Heller My grandparents kept two framed prints on a wall over my father’s childhood bed (the one I used when I stayed over at their apartment in the Bronx).
