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Steven Heller Doesn't Need Your Matisse
From Screw to SVA and beyond—a visit with the New York design writer
Heller, a Jew, has been both praised and pilloried for his willingness to publish such charged imagery, sometimes alongside short texts on the Internet. Still, he has made significant contributions to the design world—Scher credits Heller with moving American design writing away from what she calls the "starchy journals of the '50s and '60s" and into a narrative discussion of design and society. Last week, he received the Cooper-Hewitt's Design Mind Award, which recognizes a professional who has "effected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research, and scholarship."
"The worst design writer is one who doesn't tell a story," Heller tells his students. "Facts are nice, but it'd be better to have the facts telling you some tale of highs, lows, and woes."
Stephen Kroninger
More books coming your way soon.
Heller is not himself a designer, but he has designed the way that Americans think about the genre—through that mountain of books and articles he has produced and by shaping the aspirations and goals of younger writers, too. And he shows no sign of slowing down: He's got four books already slated for release in 2012.
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I have the pleasure of being a student of Steven Heller. His greatest gift to his students and the entire design profession has been his incredible generosity, with his time and his knowledge.
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