Ticket and Show Card Designing

There are many reasons it’s great to get things from Steven Heller. The top reason is that he has great things. The second-top reason is that when we’re lucky, he’s written about an item, and it saves us a lot of work. He’s written about this particular item in Print. Here’s what he had to say on September 30, 2011:

Drawing is the essential language and skill of visual art, regardless of medium. Tonight let’s celebrate drawing as skill and technique, expression and creation. Here are a few pages from one of my favorite Showcard instruction books.

Apparently he didn’t actually have much to write about this back in 2011. So, let us write this on August 15, 2026:

This looks kinda boring—but only until we actually look. There are some wild alphabet, letters, and ideas in this one. And if you ever get a ticket job, this could come in handy.