Not the Last Newspaper
by Steven Heller
For the newspaper fans out there, who shudder every time someone says "newspapers are dead," The First/Last Newspaper is for you (and me). This extremely large broadsheet, printed in black and white on both sides (with the logo TF/LN) is the work of Dexter Sinister, the nom de crayon of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey, masterminds behind Dot Dot Dot....
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Is the Nook for a Schnook?
by Steven Heller
Daily Heller roving correspondent Rick Meyerowitz went to Barnes and Noble, where he reports: "They had a brand new spiffy area built up in the front of the store to sell Nooks. It looked as if they were attempting to clone the sales look of an Apple store. They had big posters of the Nook, and I saw a bunch of Nooks in the glass cabinet. I was curious--I asked to see one. But they didn't have any. Instead..."...
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Great Balls of Video
by Steven Heller
Alicia Keys’ annual Black Ball charity event raises money for her Keep a Child Alive/AIDS philanthropy and celebrates the work of key humanitarians – Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Youssou N’dour – for their help in the fight against the pandemic.
This year the producers came to Chermayeff & Geismar to create a motion graphics film to play in the background during the centerpiece performance of the hit song by Keys and N’dour....
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Design + Ism = ?
by Steven Heller
It's that time of year again. The now annual Designism ("4.0," for its fourth year) will convene tomorrow, Wednesday, November 18, at the ADC Gallery (196 West 29th St, NYC), from 6:30-9:00 p.m. This year's big questions are: Can you change the world and make money? Should you make money while changing the world? And how can we use design thinking to change the world and still run a business?...
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Noise About Type
by Steven Heller
There are many ways to learn about type and typography. For instance, type is alive on the web through podcasts, webinars, and radio shows. But you may ask: Shouldn't type be seen and not heard (about)? Think again. The Daily Heller sampling of typographic webcasts is perfect for lonely drives, solitary evenings, and jogs around the reservoir. In no particular order, here is a sampling of a few type shows....
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Typography on the Web: Questions for Jeffrey Zeldman—Part 1
by Ellen Lupton
Remember when the only typefaces you could use on a website were Georgia, Verdana, Helvetica, and a few others? We are now on the verge of a new age of typographic diversity. Jeffrey Zeldman, one the most outspoken and influential people in the web design community, agreed to answer some questions about the state of typography on the web....
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Where's The Justice!
by Steven Heller
There has been a lot of consternation over "sampling" (or shall we say stealing) artists' work. Some argue that art is the raw material of more art. Others say all art belongs to the creator. The copyright laws favor the latter. But there are those who, for whatever reasons, feel pilfering is proper. I'm not talking about the light-gray area of manipulating (and transforming) one piece into another. I'm talking about direct pirating. This is what happened with this image, designed by Mirko Ilic, illustrator, designer, and contributor to this blog....
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Moonstruck
by Andrea Codrington
When I was a kid and prone to shining flashlights into the night sky just to imagine their beams reaching into the universe into perpetuity, there was a rumor that some big corporate entity was researching the possibility of advertising on the moon....
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