This week’s guest is Steven Heller. Heller is the co-chair and co-founder of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design program. He was a senior art director at the New York Times for 33 years. He is the author or co-author of 200 books, mostly on design and pop culture, and has been a contributing editor to PRINT, BASELINE, EYE, and other design magazines. You’d know his writing best under the slug The Daily Heller. In this episode, host Nicola Hamilton and Heller talk about how he got started, how he’s seen the industry change and the value of chronicling things to better understand our experiences. It’s a meandering conversation—the best kind of conversation in our opinion.
For more on Steven Heller, you can also read PRINT’s recent interview with Heller, his wife Louise Fili, and their son Nicolas Heller (aka New York Nico). Grab a coffee or a cup of tea, the Heller-Fili family roundtable is worth a diversion.
Welcome to the DesignThinkers Podcast! Join host and RGD President Nicola Hamilton as she digs into the archives of the DesignThinkers conference, reconnecting with past speakers about their talks and ideas that have shaped Canada’s largest graphic design conference. Follow the RGD on Instagram @rgdcanada or visit them at rgd.ca. Purchase tickets to the upcoming DesignThinkers conference at designthinkers.com.