Graphic Design & Illustration/2013/22 min/Reel № 13.001
BySteven Heller
Steven Heller on how an addiction developed into a calling
The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013
A close reading, kept within reach.
Steven Heller takes graphic design & illustration as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in USA in 2013, the conversation is grounded in Steven's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Graphic designer Steven Heller chronicles how his addictive collection of objects leads to the subject matter for his books.
About the speaker
Steven Heller
New York/USA
Steven Heller is an art director, journalist, critic, editor and author of more than 150 books on graphic design and popular culture themes.
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