As a book jacket and cover designer, Roy Kuhlman was an original. He designed almost exclusively for the edgy indie Grove Press, defining its list of literary, critical, philosophical and politically radical nonfiction titles. (That… Read More »The Daily Heller: Roy Kuhlman’s Narrative Abstraction
Earlier this year, I received a mysterious email. A permissions specialist wanted to license my 1991 poster, “Defying Odds, Expanding Opportunities: The African American Challenge,” (below right) designed for my client, the Congressional Black Caucus… Read More »New Edition of ‘Meggs’ History of Graphic Design’ Reforms the Canon
Many type foundries and type designers have focused their craft on creating type for a world with far fewer boundaries, which demands recognition of written scripts outside the Western lens. Rosetta, an award-winning type design… Read More »Only Yours and Softly Yours Are Fonts as Unique as Your Fingerprint (No, Really)
How can a board game teach the fundamentals of design and creativity? Gray Garmon, founding director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Integrated Design, joins hosts Doreen Lorenzo and Michael Baker to… Read More »Playing With Creativity: Gray Garmon
Debbie Millman’s ongoing project “What Matters,” an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers, is now in its third year. Each respondent is invited to answer ten identical questions and… Read More »What Matters to Amelia Nash
If Joe Brainard (1942–1994) were alive, he would not take credit for creating a new comics genre. During the early 1960s, he was an an up-and-coming rebel artist and writer from Tulsa, OK, in the… Read More »The Daily Heller: Joe Brainard’s ‘C Comics’ Before the Undergrounds