Design guru to speak at AIGA show

Last update: October 26, 2007 - 12:06 PM

Design guru to speak

Award-winning New York design honcho Steven Heller has left his considerable imprint on innumerable books, magazines, exhibitions and educational enterprises in the past 35 years. He will give a talk Thursday, sponsored by the College of Visual Arts, that coincides with the opening of "365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition," a traveling show of top contemporary design.

Heller's main job is senior art director at the New York Times. He also lectures on graphic design history at New York's School of Visual Arts, has served as a contributing editor to Print, Eye, I.D. and other magazines, and has contributed to more than 100 books. Among his curatorial credits are the exhibitions "Art Against War" and "The Satiric Image: Painters as Cartoonists and Caricaturists." (7 p.m. Thu., Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, $25, discounts for students, AIGA members. Info at www.minnesota.aiga.org. Exhibition Friday through Nov.24, CVA Gallery, 173 Western Av., St. Paul, free. (651-224-3416 or www.cva.edu)

MARY ABBE