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The Daily Heller: A Band of Rubbers
There are many overlooked design gems that are woefully ignored because they are so ubiquitous and quotidian (my favorite multisyllabic words). Although I am a stationery store maven, I focus mainly on...
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The Weekend Heller: A Name Is Not A Not A Number
He has been “consumed by that for last few days,” Tom Bodkin, chief creative officer of The New York Times, told me in an email early this morning: “It references 19 century newspaper design,” he adds....
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CoviDiaries: Finding the Printed Past in Neville Brody’s Lockdown London
The biggest gifts are often those buried in adversity. In my case, the ones concealed in lockdown have been essentially those of time and space—time to declutter, review and organize, and space to...
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12 Pieces of Vintage Memorial Day Ephemera
Today is Memorial Day … but some 155 years ago, it began as Decoration Day. The annual day of remembrance dates back to May 1, 1865, when African American residents of Charleston, SC, decorated the...
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NASA’s Worm is Set to Soar Back Into Space—and Into a New Book
If we can set the pandemic aside for a moment, 2020 has been the year of the Worm—earlier this year NASA called its iconic logo back into service, and today it’s slated to head back into space aboard a...
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The Daily Heller: Merrill Berman, From Weimar to Us
Merrill C. Berman, the master graphic design connoisseur/collector/archivist, has joined the ranks of the generous in making available the fruits of his acquisitions in these COVID times. In 2018–2019,...
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The Daily Heller: High Society
Nostalgia be damned! What’s not to love about Art Deco? It’s elegant yet not overly froufrou. It is Moderne (with an e), without the austerity of Modernism without the e. It is an aspirational yet...
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The Daily Heller: An American Design Style All Its Own
Today, Merrill C. Berman, whose Weimar catalog of art and politics was covered last week in The Daily Heller, brings another slice of early twentieth century design history to the public feast:...
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Why Do All Diplomas Use Blackletter? Charles Nix Breaks it Down
If you’ve ever received a diploma or certificate of achievement, it probably looked something like this (complements of Shutterstock): Graduation season has us wondering about the perpetual bond...
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CoviDiaries: J.J. Sedelmaier’s Delightful Digital Ephemera Grab Bag
So much related to the area of the animation industry we inhabit has switched to the computer … and as a result, I spend the majority of my time in the world of digital devices, or online in one way or...
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