A new Kickstarter has been launched to fund a Hall of Femmes book on Supergraphics pioneer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.
Design Culture
Weekend Heller: Depero’s Copied Original
There are a handful of books that all designers must see. Fortunato Depero’s 1927 monograph "Depero Futurista" is among them.
Where Do Illustrators’ Archives Go? Here’s One Idea
Steven Heller talks illustration with Douglas B. Dowd of the The Dowd Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University in St. Louis.
Even More WAR Design
What do you do if you are captured by a ruthless enemy in wartime? Steven Heller offers another look at war design.
More WAR Design
We call it war propaganda, but these overt messages are more than propagating a faith. They are manipulating behavior for generations to follow.
Marketing the American Dream, Automotive Design Division
A great deal of brilliant and fascinating automotive design graphics were produced from 1900-1973, as seen in a new volume from Taschen Books.
Riddles of an Illustration
Steven Heller has long pondered this 1948 "Saturday Evening Post" cover by onetime leading American illustrator Stevan Dohanos.
Weekend Heller: Karel Martens Shows at P!
The first of P! gallery's final shows is a good one: "Karel Martens: Recent Work."
Mural Arts Project Turns Philadelphia into Civic Art Space
Read about Philadelphia mural-making collective Mural Arts and its recent initiative, OpenSource, a citywide public exhibition about street art.
Chwast’s Saintly Art
Seymour Chwast's 1962 colored pencil drawing for "Saint Francis" is an elegant depiction of the patron saint of Italy and animals.