Steven Heller

A season of Design Matters simply wouldn’t feel complete without an appearance by Steven Heller. He’s not just a celebrated designer and art director, he’s also a brilliantly prolific writer of books, columns, blogs, you name it. Steve has been on the podcast pretty much every year since we started 12 years ago, and we never run out of things to talk about. This year we’re going to focus on one of his latest books, Graphic Design Rants and Raves: Bon Mots on Persuasion, Entertainment, Education, Culture, and Practice. It’s an anthology of essays Steve has written about everything from Paul Rand to the fateful election of 2016.

On this podcast Debbie talks to Steven Heller about his attitude when he was a young designer. “I was short sighted. I was arrogant. I had a sense of myself that was disproportionate to all reality.”