6/7/2023 0 Comments Steven heller graphic design![]() Joseph Aspirin for Children were my uppers and downers of choice. Over-the-counter caffeinated NoDoz and St. I never experimented with psychedelic drugs or narcotics of any kind, not even a minute toke of grass (I got plenty of contact highs, though). For instance, if you can remember the sixties, were you really there? Well, how can I really be taken seriously as a counterculturist if I can vividly remember those years? Easy! I was conscious. ![]() That said, there are a few questions that need addressing regarding my bona fides. I focus instead on how blind luck put me in intriguing places with curious people when, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, between ages sixteen to my mid-twenties, as an art director, graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer, I was sometimes on the fringes and sometimes in the center of New York’s youth culture-the alternative-sex-drugs-and-rock-’n’-roll-socially-politically-active generation, aka the boomer generation. ![]() However, it is not a trek through the hills and valleys of my autobiographical topology. ![]() ![]() This article is an excerpt from Growing Up Underground, the new coming-of-age memoir by Steven Heller published by Princeton Architectural Press. Identification card for the School of Visual Arts, circa December 1970. ![]()
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