How AIDS Was Branded: Looking Back at ACT UP Design

Janauary 12, 2012

Early AIDS-awareness movement poster

Steven Heller talks with Michael Cohena, member of Gran Fury, the “propaganda wing” of the early AIDS-awareness movement in a post for The Atlantic.

The Revenge of the Paperback Book

Janauary 5, 2012

Electric Information Age Book

For The Atlantic, Steven Heller investegates the work of Adam Michaels, a co-founder of the New York design firm Project Projects who has partnered with Princeton Architectural Press in creating a series of mass-market-sized paperbacks with interiors that are different, an editorial and design approach tailored to the particulars of subject matter and visual materials, and with textual and visual information conveyed through varied use of typography.