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
Few objects hold as many memories and have as much meaning as stuffed animals. From the moment we’re born, teddy bears and stuffed animals of all sorts are put in our arms, and are often… Read More »Winey Bears Repair Brings Old Stuffed Animals Back to Life
Two decades ago I donated 300 caricature and cartoon books and periodicals to the SVA Library. I had collected them for over 20 years, while I was researching artwork from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries.… Read More »The Daily Heller: The New Yorker’s Witty Women
Name the five photographers who, more than any others, defined the dramatic shift in the approach to magazine photography in the late eighties and early nineties. There’s Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel. Richard Avedon,… Read More »A Modern Form of Worship | Matthew Rolston
When a graphic designer lives to be 97 years old, he tends to accumulate a lot of published and unpublished work. In Walter Allner’s case, it’s a lot of consistently emblematic work, which his son,… Read More »The Daily Heller: More Precision By Walter Allner
Last time, we explored why corporate legal buyers now expect consumer-grade experiences. Today, the harder question: how do you demonstrate the quality of your thinking without revealing the specific insights that clients pay for? The… Read More »The Wisest Birds Show Up, Not Off