For Eye magazine’s summer 2009 “Agenda” section, Steven Heller produced another cult alert. By titling the piece “Cult of the Squiggly,” he obviously meant to invoke his earlier, infamous “Cult of the Ugly” essay. It’s a fair reference: both articles decry and advocate suppression of anti-Modern graphic design phenomena Heller deems disadvantageous to the field. [...]
Has design been “Dirty?”
I’ve posted two relatively lengthy responses to a new essay by Steven Heller, “The Decade of Dirty Design,” at Voice: AIGA Journal of Design. I contend that the label doesn’t encompass the entirety of design activity, focusing on a singular but not definitive exponent of design activity. I first offer a deliberately provocative (and arguably [...]
