SVA MFA Designer As Author: Paul Rand Lecture Series

Steven Heller lectures on design history.

How graphics were used in the fight for and against Communism. 

Steve Heller visually muses on design humor. 

Rand helped revolutionize the hard cover jacket and paperback cover with his playful designs. 

Yes, even designers can be menacing. These are some of the tropes used to trigger fear. 

Steven Heller talks about life (and love) as an art director. 

Analyzing the typographical style of the President of the United States. 

The 1939 New York World's Fair: "The World of Tomorrow" was a critical mass of urban planning and design thinking. The graphics were pretty interesting too. 

Steven Heller talks about 90 year old Alex Steinweiss who was the first designer to produce original artwork for Columbia Records in the late 1930s. 

Steven Heller talks about 90 year old Alex Steinweiss who was the first designer to produce original artwork for Columbia Records in the late 1930s. 

Steven Heller on Earnest Elmo Calkins influence on the birth of Commercial Modernism. 

Steven Heller on mini mannequins as sculptures of commerce. 

Steven Heller on ethnic and racial stereotypes. 

Steven Heller on ethnic and racial stereotypes. 

Steven Heller on his inquiry into totalitarian design at the Wolfsonian Museum. 

Steven Heller discusses the life and work of Ladislav Sutnar and the constructivist movement. 

Steven Heller discusses the life and work of Ladislav Sutnar and the constructivist movement. 

Steven Heller on Russian revolutionary children's books. 

Steven Heller discusses the life and design of prolific modernist Alvin Lustig. 

Steven Heller discusses posters and book jackets of E. McKnight Kauffer. 

Steven Heller on the book jackets, illustration, and marionettes of W.A. Dwiggins. 

Steven Heller discusses Bernhard's posters and their relationsihp to Plakatstil. 

Steven Heller discusses 60s youth culture, psychedelia, underground publications, and his early art direction. 

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