Shirley Temple and Shirley Temple Black
by Steven Heller
Sounds like a type family? The most adorable child star’s name is available for anyone who can design a face as cute as its namesake. Announcing The Daily Heller “Shirley Temple and Shirley Temple Black Typeface Contest.” If you can design the perfect curlicue sans serif or serif you’ll win a special prize....
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Bringing Home the Fully Cooked Bacon
by Steven Heller
Bacon anyone? Oscar Meyer, who gave wiener new meaning and made Bologna into something other than an Italian city known for its leaning towers and Bolognese sugo, has answered our long-held desire, to avoid being splattered by frying bacon fat. Fully-cooked bacon enables the bacon lover to eat the popular pork product without having to waste natural gas or paper towels....
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Saturday Extra: Does Publishing Have a Future?
by Steven Heller
There's a big question floating around the illustration universe. Does publishing have a future? And if so, where is illustration in that future? The answer is pretty obvious, don't you think? But if you haven't figured it out yet, perhaps the place to find the answer (or answers) is at ICON 6 where during the long-awaited opening of the three day conference about illustration (July 14 - 17), the keynote will be not one or two but a gaggle of publishing experts,...
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Penny Dreadful
by Steven Heller
The government is penny pinching. I mean, pinching the life out of the once noble copper coin. If you haven't seen it already, the back of the 2010 penny looks as like it came from a novelty store. It gives penny dreadful new meaning. From a field of 18 designs prepared by the United States Mint, the best they could come up with for the reverse side of President Lincoln's coin was a union shield that is so tacky it might have been drawn by a Confederate?...
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Billboard as Augmented Reality
by Steven Heller
It was early in the morning, my come-hither brown eyes not yet accustomed to the dawn light, when I saw torrents of water pouring from building windows just north of 23rd Street in New York (top). Was it a catastrophic water main break? The end of the world as we know it? Or a Ray Harryhausen spectacular? As I got closer, and more of the building came into view, I realized it was none of the above. Rather, it was a conceptually brilliant billboard (painted by hand not a digitally printed scrim) advertising the sci-fi film “Inception.”...
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The Design of Anti-Design
by Steven Heller
Neville Brody declares it's time for a bit of dust-kicking so, “Launching this September in London is the inaugural Anti-Design Festival.” It will be part of the 2010 London Design Festival, running from 18th – 26th September 2010 (at 28 Redchurch Street, E2). Although the curitorial and project team are still keeping final details and plans for content under wraps, “the community, interest and debate is already building around the festival,” he adds....
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Hack Work
by Steven Heller
Slavimir Stojanovic, one of Serbia's most acclaimed poster designers, was about to show his work to a new client when he was surprised to find his website wasn't there. Well, actually it was, but it had been obliterated by the hackers Explode Terror Crew from Kosovo. It was "obviously an act against everything that is Serbian," Stojanovic told me. "The immediate feeling was surprise and laughter, but when you read the text bellow, that directly accuses you as a war criminal, things start to get different." Ironically, Stojanovic is staunchly against racism, etnic hatred, violence in his work. "But this act, reminded me that designers live in the real world, and have to enjoy the reality, even if it is on the web."...
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Yanqui Doodle Dandy
by Steven Heller
Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony Stuck a feather in his cap / And called it macaroni. Yankee Doodle, keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy. Father and I went down to camp Along with Captain Gooding And there we saw the men and boys As thick as hasty pudding. Yankee Doodle, keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy. There was Captain Washington Upon a slapping stallion A-giving orders to his men I guess there were a million. Yankee Doodle, keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy....
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SATURDAY EXTRA: Sustaining The Sustainable
by Steven Heller
The Living Principles is a community site where designers of all levels and all backgrounds (professionals, students, graphic designers, architects, industrial designers, and other creatives) can come together to talk about issues of sustainability and social responsibility. The site enables any designer who would like to share content it in this context, to easily post it through a simple blogging platform. It's also a great place to share videos, images, descriptions of favorite books and films, and to tell people about recent projects...
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We Don't Have to Use No Stinkin' Designer!
by Steven Heller
In Paris, the cafés and bistros don't need no stinkin' designers to do their signs. "We are the letterers," they might say, paraphrasing actor Alfonso Bedoya's famous lines in "The Treasure of Sierra Madre." Some of the best handlettering anywhere is done for these menu and aperitif sign boards. Here are a few that top my list of great letterers (I wish I knew their names). First is the blackboard for Restaurant L' Ange Gardien (The Guardian Angel) on Rue des Pyrénées (above) lettered by the owner and chef....
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Hapless Spiegelman Still Moving
by Steven Heller
Pilobolus Dance Theater's main event this week at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College was a new work, “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving,’ ” by Art ("I know nothing about dance") Spiegelman and choreographer Michael Tracy, one of Pilobolus’s artistic directors. "Neither at Pilobolus nor anywhere else have I seen this kind of dizzying overlap of cartoon, film, silhouette theater, and live dance," wrote Alastair Macaulay in The New York Times. "And yet it also picks up on, and refreshes, aspects of Pilobolus that have been there since the beginning: the dream logic, the clowning, the sense of physical liberation that’s only at times highly sexual, and the defiance of categorization."...
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France's Inhuman Stain
by Steven Heller
The famous Paris cemetery, Père Lachaise, has more than Jim Morrison's grave. There are at least a dozen monuments to dedicated to those who perished in Nazi concentration camps (a very moving display). On the airplane returning from France I watched a new film, Le Rafle (or The Roundup) that highlights French complicity, under Marshal Pétain, in the persecution and round up of Jews, adding thousands more to the death toll of the Holocaust. The film tells the story of the arrest of 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, by French rightwing militia and gendarmes in July 1942....
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