{"id":11377,"date":"2018-04-23T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11377"},"modified":"2018-04-23T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:18:35","slug":"episode-266-steven-heller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-266-steven-heller","title":{"rendered":"Episode 266 – Steven Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 266:
\nSteven Heller<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I would look at other people’s design work and realize they have something I don’t have. What I do have is an ability to judge work, to come up with ideas.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Design scholar Steven Heller<\/a> joins the show to talk about writing and editing more than 182 books on design and its history<\/a> (and lamenting the books he still wants to do). We get into his evolution from cartooning to graphic design, how he became a scholar of satiric magazines, what went into building the MFA entrepreneurial design program at School of Visual Arts<\/a>, and the maybe too-encompassing use of the word “design”. We also talk about the transition from print to digital media, how he manages to keep up a daily blog<\/a>, his career at the New York Times<\/em> (designing the op\/ed page and the Book Review<\/em>, and occasionally writing obits), his legacy, how he’s dealing with Parkinson’s syndrome, how a terrible student can become a good teacher, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design<\/a>\"\" & some of Steven’s other books<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I don’t think of my legacy too often. I think of death, but not legacy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n