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Last week Paula Scher's exhibit of painted city maps opened at the Maya Stendhal Gallery (running through January 26th). The Pentagram design firm partner has created the looks of the Public Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, the High Line, the Asia Society (and more) through logos. This exhibit expands on her Maps series which took over the gallery last year, and depicts "entire continents, countries and cities from all...

Author, critic and journalist Steven Heller started out as someone who, in the words of Paula Scher, "had been more or less oblivious to design," but went on not only to launch the careers of some of our most well-known illustrators, but also to chronicle graphic design in more than 100 books. Heller also has been a contributing editor to Print, Eye, Baseline and I.D., writes obituaries for The New York Times and a column for the Book Review. A Times art director for 33 years, 30 of which he spent at the Book Review, Heller, a New York City native, is the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts (he has lectured at SVA for 14 years). Today, a retrospective of Mr. Heller’s work opens at the School of Visual Art’s Visual Arts Museum.

New York City was amply represented during last night's National Design Awards at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

The NY Sun takes a look at the impact of graphic design firm Pentagram on the city’s arts institutions. The article focuses mostly on partner Paula Scher, who has created identities for the Public Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, the High Line, the Asia Society and a host of others.

Thanks to a kind source, Gothamist received the runner-up Olympic bid logo designs that Pentagram's Paula Scher worked on. The logo above, one of four variations (see below), has three sports represented - the three others have one or two sports, or simply buildings. Gothamist happens to like this direction better than the selected logo (a broader context of NYC, athletes), but in the context of the Olympics, it's too close to Miro's work, as well as previous Olympics logos for Barcelona and Sydney. Clearly, this designing a logo that captures many elements (NYC, the Olympics, athleticism, etc.) and keeps in mind certain design requirments (like the fact, as optimus brought up in comments yesterday, the logo needs to be blown up or reduced) is a huge challenge. And the selected design is okay - it's not offensive, it has certain good things about it, but overall, it's just underwhelming and the spoofs strike more of a chord. Of course, now that we've seen these runners-up, we're wondering if anyone else can send us some other considered designs.