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The Daily Heller: A Designer of the World’s Most Ubiquitous Symbols, the Movie
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This Is… Smart Branding (Even If Fans Didn’t Love It at First)
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The Daily Heller: Why Contents Labels Need to Be Designed Well
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Project 2 by The 2Craigs is a year-long visual exchange where photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier intuitively respond to each other’s work.
The Daily Heller: How Illustration is Essential to World Cultures
D.B. Dowd studies the history of illustration, the practice of drawing and the “hybridity of reading and seeing.”
Todd Radom Turns his Life-Long Passion for Baseball into New Book, ‘The Ballpark and Beyond’
The graphic designer, sports branding expert, podcaster, writer, and baseball historian tells us about his new illustrated love letter to baseball.
The Daily Heller: Typecasting Zohran Mamdani
Mamdani’s winning visual language was in the details … of graphic design.
Jagged Little Thrill
In a design landscape increasingly defined by smooth sameness, In-House International’s Serrucho brings back grit, texture, and sharp-edged personality—proving that…
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The Daily Heller: ‘Zap’ in the Box
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