Steven Heller

James Henry Daugherty is one of the countless acccomplished artists whose recognition and legacy have been obscured by time—and whose work might have been forever forgotten were it not for the internet. To my knowledge, his most audacious work has never appeared in any illustration or art direction databases, although he was a poster, book and editorial illustrator for several newspapers, including The New Year Herald, and magazines, including

I’ve been catching up on my summer beach reading—mostly novels that take place in Berlin during the 1920s–early ’30s Weimar Republic before the deluge (Philip Kerr’s “Bernie Gunther” Weimar/Nazi detective series and Volker Kutscher’s noir Babylon Berlin, etc.). I also just finished a relentlessly depressing one titled Berlin Shuffle

Last Friday, I decided on the spur of the moment that The Daily Heller post was going to be a reprise of an earlier published notice on Steven Brower’s last book, Roy Kuhlman: The Reluctant Modernist. I wanted to make certain it did not become yet another remainder. So, after it ran, I was expecting to hear something from Steve about the surprise posting. Instead I was shocked and saddened to learn that he died on the day following the post. He was 74 years old.

Last Friday The Daily Heller post was a reprise of an earlier notice on Steve Brower’s last book, Roy Kuhlman: The Reluctant Modernist. I was expecting to

'At the end of the day, what matters is the whole: the question we answer, and the ways in which we help the client.'

It has been thiry years since Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven co-founded the Amsterdam-based design studio thonik. This many years is in itself a t

Or, liberating Latin.

40 years in the making, Book the Trip (Poltroon Press) by Alastair A. Johnston is a travelogue of signs through 700 photographs of rare and one-of-a-kind letterforms.

It's human nature.

'This is the start of something old.'