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Alice Twemlow is co-chair of the SVA MA in Design Research, Writing & Criticism in New York, and co-head of the MA in Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. Twemlow has a Ph.D from the History of Design program run jointly by the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art in London, and is currently developing her doctoral thesis about the history of design criticism into a book to be published by MIT Press.
She writes and lectures on design culture, and has recently contributed essays to
Graphisme en France
(CNAP, 2016),
Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things
(Berg, 2014),
Lolita—Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design
(Print, 2013), and
The Aspen Complex
(Sternberg Press, 2012).
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Alice Twemlow
When Did Posters Become Such Wallflowers?
What was odd about many of the posters Alice Twemlow judged in a recent competition was that they didn’t promote an idea, event or product; their only purpose seemed to be entering numerous annual poster competitions.
Dodging, Dazzling, and Divulging
Design Responses to Mass Surveillance
Remembering Richard Hamilton as Design Critic
Alice Twemlow remembers Richard Hamilton, artist and design writer.
Massimo Vignelli’s Desk
Vignelli Celebration: Alice Twemlow snoops around Massimo Vignelli’s desk.
Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews
Amazon reviews can be seen as an example of a democratizing impulse in design criticism.
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