In late May 2003 the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) hosted a discussion forum called Hell No: Designers and the War, featuring the design historian Steven Heller, the design icon Milton Glaser (perhaps most known for the “I Love NY” symbol and, more recently, the reworked version “I Love NY More Than Ever” with a small black wound over the red heart), the writer Micah Ian Wright, the cartoonist David Rees, and The Onion’s Joe Garden and Mike Loew. (The Onion is free on the streets of New York City, and if that isn’t a mark of civilization, I don’t know what is.) The event, moderated by the celebrated journalist John Hockenberry, was intended to encourage discussion of design and dissent in a time of crisis.

In late May 2003 the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) hosted a discussion forum called Hell No: Designers and the War, featuring the design historian Steven Heller, the design icon Milton Glaser (perhaps most known for the “I Love NY” symbol and, more recently, the reworked version “I Love NY More Than Ever” with a small black wound over the red heart), the writer Micah Ian Wright, the cartoonist David Rees, and The Onion’s Joe Garden and Mike Loew. (The Onion is free on the streets of New York City, and if that isn’t a mark of civilization, I don’t know what is.) The event, moderated by the celebrated journalist John Hockenberry, was intended to encourage discussion of design and dissent in a time of crisis.