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PRINTThe Daily Heller: Up Close With Lowell Thompson, Big Idea Man Black admen and adwomen in Chicago started the transformation of the most powerful influences of American culture, marketing and media—and in the film Channels Changers , veteran adman Lowell…
PRINTPRINT Awards 2026: Honoring the Work That Stands Apart As we celebrate the 46th year of the PRINT Awards, we continue a legacy of recognizing creative excellence across the design industry.
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Revisiting the Lighter Side of 1984 While digging and dumping my way through the legacy years I came across this invitation for an exhibition that I curated in Summer 1984. An auspicious year for George Orwell and his readers.
PRINTWhat Happens When Ai Takes on Legacy Apps Like Adobe? We’ve all seen the memes. We all miss the days when AI was just Adobe Illustrator. Could we please go back to that time? Well, I think we’ve officially come full circle.
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Findings of a Monogrammarian A monogram consists of two or more letters or characters combined into one symbol. Among the most recognized typographic forms, a monogram is arguably the most widely used for product logos, military…
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Just Signs Prompt from yesteryear: Make signs that fit in a window, doorway, on the mirror or the wall. These once-ubiquitous signs will never be made by AI. No way!
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Paper Engineering Makes Simplicity Into Complexity I get giddy when I see paper transformed from static one-dimensional form into dynamic three dimensions.
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Chwast is a Child at Heart Two new books of old and current work by Seymour Chwast will be posted and hosted at Poster House on Oct. 24.
PRINTRiff and the Beauty of an Unfinished Box I’ll admit my first reaction to a Daniel Humm meal kit was a raised eyebrow. The chef who spent two decades shaping Eleven Madison Park into one of the most decorated restaurants in the world…
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Building Up the Industrial Music Movement From postpunk Britain and Cold War Europe to Reagan’s America, industrial music permeated global underground culture.
PRINTCalling All Atlanta Creatives! It’s Time For Recess Atlanta, the city of peaches, hip-hop, and Coca-Cola. What does that have to do with creatives? It’s the home of Design Recess, a one-day design conference where creative professionals learn…
PRINTWhat Matters to Reema Mehta Reema Mehta is a strategist at The Mix Global in New York, where she draws on a cross-cultural library of experiences from living in five countries to decode culture and consumer behavior.
PRINTThe Daily Heller: A Lesson in Design Archive Divestiture This is an abridged primer for owners of a personal design research library—for divesting and extricating oneself from a massive amount of books and journals, portfolios and documents accumulated…
PRINTThe Lettering Artist Snooze is a Master of Type Experimentation and Process At a time when our modern culture is dominated by finished products and outputs (cough, cough—generative AI — cough, cough) the German lettering artist who goes by the nom de plume Snooze , is all…
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Banned Books Week, Oct. 4–10 Banned Books Week is a contradiction, since the outrage against censorship runs year-round. But for purposes of motivational optics—and lest we forget it continues to occur in libraries and…
PRINTThe Daily Heller: A Publishing Dream Come True In 1973, a year before I was hired at 24 by The New York Times , I was art director of a number of periodicals simultaneously.
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PRINTThe Risk of What We Think We Know Last year, I joined the board of my HOA (I know, not the best decision 😅), and I’ve been amazed by how often our board’s assumptions about how our community or contractors might respond when it…
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Si Lewen and His Epic ‘Parade’ This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will present There Are No Words: Si Lewen’s Parade , a work comprised of 63 drawings by Polish-born artist Si Lewen (1918–2016). On view from Oct. 1–Jan.
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PRINTWhat Matters to Rich Kolopeaua Rich Kolopeaua leads creative at Ready Set Rocket and its sister design agency, Addison, bringing together brand thinking, storytelling, design, and digital experience.
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Animals Are Diverse But Not All Are Created Equal World War 3 Illustrated is the foreboding title of a comic book and graphics magazine founded in 1979 by a dedicated collective of mainstream and alternative newspaper, magazine and comic book…
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Visualizing the Book Warren Lehrer has been making history for many years. He was among the early pioneers of graphic design history scholarship and he creates “visualized books” that come from and create their own…
PRINTDr. Dori’s Cut: 100 Words. No Filler. As September comes to a close, Dr. Dori Tunstall returns to PRINT with 100 words and one image—and an idea that lingers well beyond the end of the month.
PRINTIntuit Rethinks Its Brand Architecture with JKR When Intuit launched in the 1980s, the golden era of tech, its origins were pretty straightforward. Founder Scott Cook was inspired by watching his wife manage their household finances, got the idea…
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Letters to the Aspiring Editor Ever since I was a little boy, I was motivated to be a bigger boy with large ambitions and responsibilities.
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