Design is a living. But to live passionately is essential. For the Love of Design is an anthology of graphic designer and educator Steven Heller's essays that are underscored by the essence that makes designers do what they do—whether making the environment a better place, communicating important messages, or simply enlivening the quotidian world, design is everywhere and everything. It is a life force made and appreciated with love.
 
The focus of the anthology is graphic design and typography but these disciplines impact so many other forms of design that it is impossible to ignore them. Through essays, interviews and profiles, Heller captures the essence of what makes artists into designers and what makes design and its makers tick.

From the design director of the New York Times discussing how during the pandemic he created the most effective front pages to a collage artist talking about why cutting and pasting scraps of material creates dynamic compositions, each story and narrative brings to light ambitions and aspirations that are couched in love for the thinking, making, and doing of design.

For the Love of Design is here to show that graphic and other design activities are not just ways of making a living, but living a life.

Designed by Ezra Lee

Published by Allsworth Press, 2022

Softcover, 168 pages, b&w, 9 × 6 inches

ISBN: 978-1-62-153809-7