The Daily Heller: New York, the City Where Letterers Never Sleep

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By Steven HellerPosted  ∙  1 min. read

I am on a busman’s holiday today, looking through piles of old photos of the spirit of typographic New York, where lettering reigned on every street. Happy fifth of July …

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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).

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