Theory + Criticism
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Alexandra Lange|Essays
The Fork and the World: Design 101
If you had to explain design to the uninitiated, where would you start?
Rick Poynor|Essays
The Practical Virtue of Works That Work
Works That Work magazine reclaims the word “creativity” from the stultifying embrace of branding culture and design thinking.
Alexandra Lange|Slideshows
Instagramming Around Australia
Lessons from contemporary Australian architecture, plus what I saw on Instagram.
Rob Walker|Essays
Branding By Numbers
Emblemetric backs its assessment of the American Airlines logo with "the data." Of course, that's open to interpretation.
Alexandra Lange|Essays
Kicked A Building Lately?
That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.
Rob Walker|Essays
Crowdcrit vs. Apple Maps
An instant Tumblr responds to Apple's maps app, and demonstrates the art of the creative takedown.
Rob Walker|Essays
Secret Lives Of Things
Ian Bogost explains why it's important to try to understand what it's like to be a thing.
Alexandra Lange|Essays
The Charismatic Megafauna of Design
Identifying the "charismatic megafauna" of design and the critical uses of their popularity.
Alexandra Lange|Books
The Mother of Us All
Reyner Banham on Esther McCoy: "She speaks as she finds, with sympathy and honesty, and relevantly to the matter at hand." Could there be a better definition of the role of the critic?
Rick Poynor|Essays
The Closed Shop of Design Academia
Shouldn’t it be part of a design academic’s brief to communicate more widely with the design profession and public?
Alexandra Lange|Essays
Frank Lloyd Wright + Katniss Everdeen
On photographing architecture as sculpture and telling stories via architecture.
Rick Poynor|Essays
John McHale and the Expendable Ikon
Artist, graphic designer, information theorist, architectural critic, sociologist, futurist: it’s time to rediscover John McHale.
