This issue’s found object is a box of Depression-era rejection letters addressed to a young woman looking for work in the food service industry. The box was picked up 10 years ago at a Great Barrington, MA, flea market by designer and author Steven Heller.
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Yours Very Truly
Recovered by Steven Heller
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Steven Heller was the art director of The New York Times Book Review for 30 years and continues to write the “Visuals” column. He is the founder and co-chair of the MFA/Design Program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. Heller is also the author and/or editor of over 80 books on popular culture, graphic design, and politics in art. His recent publications include The Design of Dissent, Expanded Edition: Greed, Nationalism, Alternative Facts, and the Resistance (2017), The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design (2017), 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design (2019), Teaching Graphic Design History (2019), and Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York (2022).