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Graphic design leader to speak March 11 3:33 p.m., March 10, 2005--Steven Heller, editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and the chair of the MFA design department at the School of Visual Arts, will speak at 1:30 p.m., Friday, March 11, in the Trabant University Center Theatre. His talk is the second in the Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications spring lectures. Heller is the author or editor of more than 70 books on graphic design, including Citizen Designer, Design Literacy, Graphic Design History, The Education of an E-designer and Design Literacy Continued. He is a contributor or contributing editor to nearly 25 magazines, including Print, U&lc, Eye Magazine, Communications Arts, ID magazine, Graphis, Design Issues and Mother Jones. Since 1986, he has been senior art director of The New York Times, which he first joined as an art director in 1974. From 1967-73, he served as art director for numerous publications. Heller was awarded three design grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1986, 1988 and 1990. In 1996, he received a Special Educators Award from The Art Directors Club of New York. He has been the curator of 10 design exhibitions, including "The Art of Satire" at the Pratt Graphics Center and "Art Against War" at the Parsons School of Design. Since 1986, he has directed "Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design," an annual symposium at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in New York. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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