Not the Last Newspaper
by Steven Heller
For the newspaper fans out there, who shudder every time someone says "newspapers are dead," The First/Last Newspaper is for you (and me). This extremely large broadsheet, printed in black and white on both sides (with the logo TF/LN) is the work of Dexter Sinister, the nom de crayon of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey, masterminds behind Dot Dot Dot....
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Is the Nook for a Schnook?
by Steven Heller
Daily Heller roving correspondent Rick Meyerowitz went to Barnes and Noble, where he reports: "They had a brand new spiffy area built up in the front of the store to sell Nooks. It looked as if they were attempting to clone the sales look of an Apple store. They had big posters of the Nook, and I saw a bunch of Nooks in the glass cabinet. I was curious--I asked to see one. But they didn't have any. Instead..."...
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Great Balls of Video
by Steven Heller
Alicia Keys’ annual Black Ball charity event raises money for her Keep a Child Alive/AIDS philanthropy and celebrates the work of key humanitarians – Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Youssou N’dour – for their help in the fight against the pandemic.
This year the producers came to Chermayeff & Geismar to create a motion graphics film to play in the background during the centerpiece performance of the hit song by Keys and N’dour....
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Design + Ism = ?
by Steven Heller
It's that time of year again. The now annual Designism ("4.0," for its fourth year) will convene tomorrow, Wednesday, November 18, at the ADC Gallery (196 West 29th St, NYC), from 6:30-9:00 p.m. This year's big questions are: Can you change the world and make money? Should you make money while changing the world? And how can we use design thinking to change the world and still run a business?...
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Noise About Type
by Steven Heller
There are many ways to learn about type and typography. For instance, type is alive on the web through podcasts, webinars, and radio shows. But you may ask: Shouldn't type be seen and not heard (about)? Think again. The Daily Heller sampling of typographic webcasts is perfect for lonely drives, solitary evenings, and jogs around the reservoir. In no particular order, here is a sampling of a few type shows....
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Where's The Justice!
by Steven Heller
There has been a lot of consternation over "sampling" (or shall we say stealing) artists' work. Some argue that art is the raw material of more art. Others say all art belongs to the creator. The copyright laws favor the latter. But there are those who, for whatever reasons, feel pilfering is proper. I'm not talking about the light-gray area of manipulating (and transforming) one piece into another. I'm talking about direct pirating. This is what happened with this image, designed by Mirko Ilic, illustrator, designer, and contributor to this blog....
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Let Theirs Be Light
by Steven Heller
Enlighten! is an exhibition and sale in Los Angeles on November 21 featuring over 85 limited edition artist and designer's lampshades to benefit inner city arts education. They provide quite a turn on. In addition to the designers shown here, included are Lou Beach, Calef Brown, Stefan Bucher, Paul Rogers and Noah Woods, and each design an illuminating masterpiece....
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Wolfe is in the Details
by Steven Heller
Steve Wolfe's works on paper exhibit at the Whitney is an exercise in too many details. Wolfe (b. 1955) paints everyday objects, most notably book jackets and covers on facsimile books and the Campari box, with special emphasis on tromp l'oeil tears, creases, and stains......
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It Moves!!!
by Steven Heller
If you want to be moved and you're visiting or live in New York, I suggest you spend some kinetic time tomorrow at Moving Pictures: A Symposium of Illustration and Motion. Moderator and organizer Lauren Redniss reveals a history of blind spots; Jody Rosen unveils “The Knowledge” of London taxi drivers (the "it" that every London cabbie must know); Joel Smith, a Saul Steinberg scholar, maps the artist's mind......
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Great Moments in Bouncing Balls
by Steven Heller
Max Fleischer Studios was famous for Betty Boop, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown, as well as Popeye cartoons, but they were also responsible for movie Sing-a-longs, the precursor to today’s dread karaoke. In between motion pictures, the house organist would play a popular song of the day and the audience would be encouraged to raise their voices high. If they didn't know the words, they would be projected onscreen from slides. Sometime between 1924 and 1925 Fleischer Studios introduced words on film. To further aid the audience a ball bounced over the words and with that, the "Song Car-Tune" was born and Americans began to “follow the bouncing ball.”...
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Michele Bachmann, Living Doll
by Steven Heller
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has attracted national cable media attention for suggesting that President Obama is "anti-American." Yesterday she called for the defeat of the health care bill. Now she's Ms. November on the Conservative Women's 2010 calendar and has achieved a new level of celebrity status--in the form of her own action figure....
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The Building is Alive!!!
by Steven Heller
BLU is one of the most enticing street art and design collectives around today. While their website is a little overdone in the DIY conceit, they have some incredible work on it. Particularly an amazing video which I link to, and others I urge you to see. But don't miss the video showing their living building come to life, titled "Combo."...
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