Past Event
Wednesday, February 8 2023
6:30–8:30 pm
Growing up Underground
A Memoir of Counterculture New York
Wednesday, February 8 2023
6:30–8:30 pm
Growing up Underground
A Memoir of Counterculture New York
Join us for a conversation with Steven Heller about his recent memoir
Join designer and author, Steven Heller and Anne Quito, for an intimate conversation about his recent coming-of-age memoir, Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York. This memoir takes us on a deep visual dive into NYC’s youth culture eruption in the 1960s, and 1970 from Steven’s on-the-ground lived experience.
Steven has documented the impact of NYC’s design and creative evolution with a critical eye for over half a century.
After the event, you are invited to join us for a reception and book signing. A limited number of books will be available for purchase at the event, but we strongly encourage you to purchase the book in advance (with ticket purchase).
Event Series: Design Spotlight
These events are design talks or conversations that feature designers or creative teams sharing top of mind or breakout work.
Tickets
We are committed to keeping events accessible to all participants. Your ticket and donation supports AIGA NY and costs associated with events such as speaker honorariums, productions costs, and venue fees. If ticket cost is a barrier, please contact Stacey@aigany.org.
Schedule
- 6:30 pm Doors open & check-in
- 7:00 pm Event begins
- 8:00 pm Event ends + Book signing
Tickets
- Non-members $15.00
- AIGA Members $10.00
- Suggested donations $20.00
- Purchase Growing Up Underground Books $27.21
The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson / J.M. Kaplan Hall
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66 West 12th Street
New York, 10003
About Steven Heller
Steven Heller
Steven is celebrating the 25th anniversary of co-founding the SVA MFA Design / Design as Entrepreneur program (with Lita Talarico). For 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times. He was the editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and AIGA VOICE, as well as author and co-author of over 200 books on design, illustration and popular culture. He is recipient of the AIGA Medal and The National Design Award for “Design Mind”. One of three currently released books, Growing Up Underground covers his teens and early twenties working for underground journals and sex papers in New York City.
About Anne Quito
Anne Quito
Anne is a journalist and design critic. A former staff reporter at Quartz, she is currently the managing editor of a new design magazine at Amazon. Anne wrote “Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines” (Columbia University Press, 2019), a book about the glory days of editorial design as told by Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard. She is the first recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary.
The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson / J.M. Kaplan Hall
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66 West 12th Street
New York, 10003