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Rick Poynor|Essays
Did We Ever Stop Being Postmodern?
Like it or not, argues the V&A's exhibition about postmodernism and design, we are all postmodern now.
Rick Poynor|Essays
Should We Look at Corrosive Images?
What do violent photographs of war do to us as viewers?
Rick Poynor|Essays
A Swedish Perspective on Critical Practice
The Reader, a recent book from Stockholm about critical practice, has some smart insights while missing the bigger picture.
Alexandra Lange|Essays
Announcing LetsGetCritical.org
My new blog collects the best arts & culture criticism, essays and reviews.
Rick Poynor|Essays
The House That Design Journalism Built
Printed design magazines continue to fail and close. Where does that leave design writing and criticism?
Rick Poynor|Essays
Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read
The Designers & Books website has published my list of 20 indispensable books about graphic design.
Rick Poynor|Essays
Paul Stiff, the Reader’s Champion
For the late Paul Stiff, design educator, writer, editor and skeptic, typography must never neglect to serve the reader.
Alexandra Lange|Essays
Muddying the Waters
Explore New York's watery edges with the graduating class at D-Crit.
Andy Chen|Essays
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Cub
Is design strictly a set of rules?
Alexandra Lange|Essays
ISO The Digital Sidewalk Critic
Why is it so hard to say, "I hate my iPad"?
Alexandra Lange|Essays
Objects Fall From the Sky
What's more important: crediting a designer or the designer credited?
Rick Poynor|Essays
Where Is Art Now?
Leaving the art world to decide what art is doesn’t resolve the issue of quality.
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