His press pass provided him with the opportunity to attend some New York University lectures on the subject of graphic designing.

Notwithstanding the fact that he had no proper qualification for the position, at the age of seventeen he became an art director. Interesting fact about his education is that he never received formal art education. Heller is a product of a military school and a progressive prep school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

The AIGA calls him the Samuel Boswell of our graphic design age. He chronicled graphic designing and explored it to such an extent and depth that his students couldn’t help but be amazed and inspired by his dedication to his work. Heller has managed to encapsulate the knowledge of graphic design spanning over hundred years. Besides, he has contributed to variety of magazines, such as Creation, Design Issues, Design Observer, Graphis, Oxymoron, The New York Times Book Review and Speak. AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design currently seeks his editorial skills to help build a critical vocabulary for their journal.īeing an author, critic and editor of over hundred books, Heller has had opportunity of working with a good number of publishing houses including Allworth Press, Phaidon Press, Abbeville Press, Northlight, Thames and Hudson and more. He published numerous inspiring and thought-provoking pieces on graphic design. More importantly, he has been working as an editor for the prestigious the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. He wrote innumerable articles, columns and critical essays for these design and culture journals. He edited several design magazines, such as Eye, Baseline, Print and I.D. Heller has contributed to graphic design through his input in print media, as well.

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