Toot Toot

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By Zachary Petit, PrintMag, Steven Heller, PRINT Magazine, and Jessica DeseoPosted  ∙  1 min. read

Its horn tooting time again. Two new toots:

The Fourth Edition of Becoming A Graphic Designer (Wiley) by me and Teresa Fernandes (designed by Teresa) is just out. This edition is over fifty percent new material, with more emphasis on the “small studio” and “freelance life.”

For a brief promotional video you can go here.

And Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the Worlds Greatest Graphic Designers (Thames and Hudson and Monacelli) by me and Lita Talarico (designed by Ashley Olsson). A wonderfully diverse mix of formal and informal sketches, comps and doodles by Brad Holland, Milton Glaser, Bruce Mau, Sara Fanelli, Ed Fella, Irma Boom, Henrik Drescher, Gary Baseman, Art Spiegelman, Mirko Ilic, and 80 more. (Next volume (2011): Type: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Greatest Type Designers and Typographers). See more here and here.

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Zachary Petit (zacharypetit.com) has edited The Daily Heller for around 10 years, and was editor-in-chief of the print version of PRINT magazine. He is a contributing writer at Fast Company and the author of The Moon & Antarctica (2025) for Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series.

Steven Heller has written for PRINT since the 1980s. He is co-chair of SVA MFA Designer as Entrepreneur. The author, co-author and editor of over 200 books on design and popular culture, Heller is also the recipient of the Smithsonian Institution National Design Award for "Design Mind," the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement and other honors. He was a senior art director at The New York Times for 33 years and a writer of obituaries and book review columnist for the newspaper, as well. His memoir, Growing Up Underground (Princeton Architectural Press) was published in 2022. Some of his recent essays are collected in For the Love of Design (Allworth Press).

Creative Director of Print Magazine, Jessica is also a packaging designer and Associate Professor at ArtCenter College of Design. She has worked as a professional hands-on designer for a wide array of notable brands since 2005. In 2014, Jessica decided to combine both design and business to grow the Dieline. In 2016, she became a faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design teaching students sustainable packaging design. Currently she is the Co-Founder of a PR/Marketing agency called CoolWish where her objective is to work with stellar clients who want "to get themselves out there."

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