Go back in time a few weeks to when Steven Brower spoke about his book Roy Kuhlman: The Reluctant Modernist for the Print Book Club. One aspect of the project that we did not discuss… Read More »The Daily Heller: This Typeface Looks Familiar Because It Is
It’s a scary time to be in the creative field, filled with vast and every-growing unknowns related to AI. We’re already seeing the impact of AI on art, design, and culture at large, but there’s… Read More »Decimal Gives The Creators Coalition on Artificial Intelligence an Optimistic Brand Identity
Typography has long been positioned as a vessel for language, a neutral system for delivering words. But that framing has always been incomplete. Letterforms don’t only carry meaning; they shape it. They encode geography, power,… Read More »How Letterforms Carry Culture
Michael DeForge makes comics that capture the messiness, heartache and absurdity of the world. His next book, All the Cameras in My Room (Drawn & Quarterly, April 21), is an eclectic mix of stories, each… Read More »The Daily Heller: Making Comics is a Lot Like Acting
My first exhibition poster for AIGA (1980) was on the topic of political art and graphic commentary, a potent mix of expressive symbolism and satiric acerbity. I immediately asked Brad Holland, who was best known… Read More »The Daily Heller: Posters Were Holland’s Secret Passion
There’s a moment between your fifth thumb-scroll of the morning and your first sip of coffee when your brain quietly mutinies against the hyper-lit, over-edited, aggressively color-graded videos that feel less like something you discovered… Read More »Googly Eyes, Zero Budget Energy, and the Art of Not Trying Too Hard