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The Daily Heller: Soon to Be an ‘American Master’ …

April will mark the first PBS “American Masters” broadcast of Mecky Creus and Adrienne Hall’s Freedom is a Verb, a short documentary about artist Edel Rodriguez’s journey and work (see the trailer here). The film focuses on Rodriguez’s bestselling visual memoir of young life in—and treacherous escape from—Castro’s Cuba. In it he recalls the harrowing

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The Daily Heller: Chris Ashworth Takes a Stand Against Digital Hygiene

Adrian Shaughnessy, co-publisher of Unit Editions (an imprint of Thames and Hudson), has a problem. He plans to make not one, but three books of work by Chris Ashworth, a former Ray Gun art director, editorial creative director and designer. The quandary: Can Ashworth’s work sustain the three-volume treatment? Shaughnessy was turned on by Ashworth’s

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Meanwhile: There’s Only Make

Hello hello. Here be links. New cover for Dalkey Archive Press – Reprise, collecting three volumes of short stories by Nicholas Delbanco. That’s Ida In An Interior With Piano by Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi, and isn’t it lovely? “I’m into the idea of making stuff that doesn’t look like a book cover … something that

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What Matters to David Recchia

Debbie Millman’s ongoing project “What Matters,” an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers, is now in its third year. Each respondent is invited to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph. David Recchia is executive creative director at creative branding and communications agency The Team. He is

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