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Looking Closer : Critical Writings on Graphic Design
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Looking Closer : Critical Writings on Graphic Design Paperback - 1994

by Michael Bierut (Editor); William Drenttel (Editor); Steven Heller (Editor)

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  • Title Looking Closer : Critical Writings on Graphic Design
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Fi
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York
  • Date November 1, 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6033238-6
  • ISBN 9781880559154 / 1880559153
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 6.75 x 7 in (25.40 x 17.15 x 17.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93071922
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.6

From the publisher

Steven Heller is editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and the chair of the MFA design department at the School of Visual Arts. He is the author or editor of more than seventy books on graphic design, and he is a contributor or contributing editor to nearly 25 magazines, includingPrint, U&lc, Eye Magazine, Communications Arts, ID magazine, Graphis, Design Issues, andMother Jones. Since 1986 he has been senior art director of the New York Times, which he first joined as an art director in 1974. From 1967-1973, he served as art director for numerous publications, including Interview magazine, The New York Free Press, Rock Magazine, Screw magazine, Mobster Times, Evergreen Review, and the Irish Arts Center.



He was awarded three design grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1986,1988, and 1990. In 1996, he received a Special Educators Award from The Art Director's Club of New York. He has been the curator of ten design exhibitions, including "The Art of Satire" at the Pratt Graphics Center and "Art Against War" at the Parsons School of Design. Since 1986, he has directed "Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design," an annual symposium at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in New York.

About the author

Steven Heller is editor of the "AIGA Journal of Graphic Design "and the chair of the MFA design department at the School of Visual Arts. He is the author or editor of more than seventy books on graphic design, and he is a contributor or contributing editor to nearly 25 magazines, including"Print, U&lc, Eye Magazine, Communications Arts, ID magazine, Graphis, Design Issues, " and"Mother Jones." Since 1986 he has been senior art director of the New York Times, which he first joined as an art director in 1974. From 1967-1973, he served as art director for numerous publications, including "Interview magazine, The New York Free Press, Rock Magazine, Screw magazine, Mobster Times, Evergreen Review, " and the Irish Arts Center.


He was awarded three design grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1986,1988, and 1990. In 1996, he received a Special Educators Award from The Art Director's Club of New York. He has been the curator of ten design exhibitions, including "The Art of Satire" at the Pratt Graphics Center and "Art Against War" at the Parsons School of Design. Since 1986, he has directed "Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design," an annual symposium at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in New York.