December 10, 2004
Are blogs rendering print publications obsolete? Heller examines the impact of blogs on design writing.
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A short film about William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, who were both awarded the AIGA Medal at “Bright Lights: The AIGA Awards Gala” in New York City in April 2013.
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Leo Lionni has wedded fine art to applied art, elevated the level of graphic design criticism, launched the careers of many formidable practitioners, and engaged the minds and hearts of several generations in a variety of roles throughout his career: committed teacher, author, critic, editor, painter, sculptor, printmaker, designer, cartoonist and illustrator. He is also the recipient of the 1984 AIGA Medal.
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November 02, 2011
For decades designers have tried to convince clients and the world at large that design is central to our endeavors. Based on the coverage of Steve Jobs’ death, Caplan concludes that maybe the message has been getting through.
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December 16, 2009
If celebrity can put an ice cream shop on the map and fetch six figures for a typewriter, Ralph Caplan wonders what influence designers have in creating desirability.
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Tibor Kalman, founder of the design firm M&Co, left behind scores of design artifacts but is remembered more for his critiques on the nature of consumption and production than for his formal studio achievements. He enlarged the parameters of design from service to cultural force, for which he received an AIGA Medal in 1999.
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Biography by Paula Scher
Steven Heller has immortalized our graphic past and made coherence of our present. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 60 books on design-related topics. A journalist, critic, and commentator, he has written for a wide array of publications and has been the editor of AlGA's journal of graphic design, Voice, since its inception in the early '80s. In addition, for 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times, originally on the OpEd Page and for almost 30 of those years with the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is co-chair of SVA's “MFA Designer as Author” department and a special consultant on new programs to the president of SVA, and writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review. In recognition of his role as the ubiquitous, tireless chronicler of our design times, he was awarded an AIGA Medal in 1999.
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