Prolific author and co-chair of the MFA Design School of Visual
Arts Steven Heller shares his love of design with the world through
essays, interviews, and profiles.
Design is a living. But to live passion is essential. For the Love of
Design is an anthology of Steven Heller's essays that are underscored
by the essence that makes designers do what they do, Whether it is to
make the environ a better place or communicate important messages or
simply enliven the quotidian world, design is everywhere and everything.
It is a life force made and appreciated with love.
The focus of the anthology is graphic design and typography but these
disciplines impact so many other forms of design that it is impossible
to ignore them. Through essays, interviews and profiles, Heller captures
the essence of what makes artists into designers and what makes design
and its makers tick.
From the design director of the New York Times discussing how during
the pandemic he created the most effective front pages to a collage
artist talking about why cutting and pasting scraps of material into
dynamic compositions, each story and narrative brings to light ambitions
and aspirations they are couched in love for the thinking, making, and
doing of design.
For the Love of Design is here to show that graphic and other design
activities are not just ways of making a living, but living a life.
