Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program
and co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism and MFA in Interaction
Design programs at the School of Visual Arts, New York. For thirty-
three years he was an art director at the New York Times, and currently
writes the “Visuals” column for the New York Times Book Review. He
is editor of the AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design and contributing
editor to Print, EYE, Baseline, and ID magazines. He contributes to
Design Observer and writes the DAILY HELLER blog for Print magazine.
He is the author or editor of over 130 books on design and popular
culture, including Design Literacy, Design Disasters, Born Modern:
The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig, and Vintage Type and Graphics. He is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA
Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Heller lives in New York.