The Education of a Graphic Designer - Softcover

In this text, 25 designers and educators examine how graphic design is taught, learned and practised. In interviews with ten successful designers, including Milton Glaser, Jessica Helford, Paula Scher, Michael Bierut and David Carson, the author attempts to discover how they acquired their knowledge of design and how they have translated it into practice in their careers. The book presents model design-education curricula for both undergraduate and graduate levels.

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.