Graphic Design Readings

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I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

The Temporary Space

International Students Can Teach Us A Lot About Design Education for All

Caspar Lam and YuJune Park

Let’s Teach a History of Ideas, Not the History of Individuals

Juliette Cezzar

Gradients: the colorful design trend aiming to soothe these anxious times

Black Graphics: Celebrating Designers of Color

Writing for the Design Mind

How will we queer design education without compromise?

Culture is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer

Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand

Some Virtues of Design

Conversation with Richard Hollis on Graphic Design History

Continuity and Change

That's Entertaining!

The Designer's Dilemma: Changing the way we think about design to better tackle the challenges of environmentalism.

Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Natasha Iskander

The Design of Everyday Things

Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics, and New Practice

Design Fiction as Pedagogic Practice

Design as an Attitude

Alice Rawsthorn

All Buildings Are Interesting

Recipes for Systematic Change

Bryan Boyer, Justin W. Cook, Marco Steinberg

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses (A Strategic Design Vocabulary)

Words as Material

Why Write About Graphic Design?

Jessica Helfand

Where Are the Design Intellectuals?

Where Are the Design Critics?

How To Say What You Mean

Nicely Said — Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

Interface Writing

Everything Easy is Hard Again

In Defense of Design Thinking, Which is Terrible

Typography is a Grid

Anthony Froshaugh

The Shape of Words

Modern Typography

Visual Research — An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design

Ian Noble, Russell Bestly

Future Practice — Conversations from the edge of Architecture

What has writing got to do with design?

The Case for the Sublime Uselessness of Graphic Design

Research Through Design — Twenty-First Century Makers and Materialities

Abigail Durrant, John Vines, Jayne Wallace, Joyce S.R. Yee

Design History in Globalization and the Place of East Asian Design

About the word 'design'

The Particular Problem of Graphic Design (History)

Andrew Blauvelt

A Poetics of Graphic Design?

The Death of the Critic

Towards Relational Design

Andrew Blauvelt

Bridget Wilkins

Have you ever really looked at this poster?

Messy History vs. Neat History — Toward an Expanded View of Women in Graphic Design

Martha Scotford

Black Designers — Missing in Action

Cheryl D. Miller

The Paradox on the Graphic Artist

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Can Designers Save the World Without Creating More Stuff?

Chappell Ellison

Searching for a Black Aesthetic in American Graphic Design Education

You’ll Never Guess the Amazing Ways Online Design Writing and Criticism Has Changed

Chappell Ellison

If You Are Writing an Essay or a Thesis

Chappell Ellison

The Tenth Pioneer

Martha Scotford

The Debate — The Legendary Contest of Two Giants of Graphic Design

Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Believing is Seeing — Observations on the Mysteries of Photography

Thoughts on Design

Getting Others Right

From Lascaux to Brooklyn

Against Neutrality

A Too-Perfect Picture

Tense Relations

Hardy Perennials

When Form has Become Attitude — And Beyond

Thierry de Duve

A Note on the Type

Dexter Sinister

There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch

Design Education — Brilliance Without Substance

Design for the Real World

The ABCs of Bauhaus

Ellen Lupton, Abbott Miller

The Early Years of Graphic Design at Yale University

Writing About Architecture — Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities

Alexandra Lange

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin

What Screens Want

What is this thing called graphic design criticism?

Michael Rock, Rick Poynor

What is a designer?

The Web's Grain

The Uselessness of Design Criticism

Typeface as Programme

From The Toolbox of The Serving Library

Thinking With Type

The Interface — IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design

That was then, and this is now but what is next?

Towards a Critical Faculty (Only an Attitude of Orientation) From the Toolbox of The Serving Library

Sifting the Trash — A History of Design Criticism

The Shape of Design

Shady Characters — The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

Questions to ask yourself when reading about design

Post Digital Print

Alessandro Ludovico

Post Artifact Books and Publishing

Platforming Books

Ornament and Crime

Only an Attitude of Orientation

A Note on the Type

Not Diving but Swimming

Never Use Futura

My Typographies

The Museum Interface

Sarah Hromack, Rob Giampietro

Multiple Signatures

Method Designing — The Paradox of Modern Design Education

Jessica Helfand

Long Live Modernism!

Massimo Vignelli

The (Layered) Vision Thing

Design — The Invention of Desire

Jessica Helfand

The Interface Experience

Incubation of a Workshop

Honeywell, I'm Home!

Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth

Graphic Design in the Postmodern Era

Graphic Design Criticism as a Spectator Sport

Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art

The Global Style

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

Draw it With Your Eyes Closed

The Digital-Physical

Detail in Typography

Designing Interactions

Designerly Ways of Knowing

Design Interface

Gianni Barbacetto

Design as an Ideological State-Apparatus

Design Discourse (History, Theory, Criticism)

Victor Margolin

Design — The Blindspot of Theory

Design and Crime

Default Systems in Graphic Design

Rob Giampietro, Rudy VanderLans

Deconstruction and Graphic Design

Ellen Luption, Abbott Miller

The Cult of the Ugly

The Crystal Goblet

Criticism = Love

Alexandra Lange

A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philsophy of Design

Castles Made of Sand

Call for Criticism

Massimo Vignelli

Blueprint for Counter Education

Maurice Stein, Larry Miller

Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

Beatriz Columina, Mark Wigley

All That Is Solid...

A Time for Being Against

30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime

Let's Talk About Women in Architecture

Alexandra Lange

Women Graphic Designers

Whitney Graphic Identity

Experimental Jetset

What Design Can't Do

Understanding Media

Marshall McLuhan

Towards a Critical Graphic Design Practice

Towards a Critical Faculty

Daniel Boorstin

Ten Footnotes on a Manifesto

Speculative Everything

Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby

The Rise of Research in Graphic Design

Research and Destroy

Daniel Van der Velden

Whatever Happened to Projective Architecture?

Post-Identity Design — Brands, Politics, and Technological Instability

On Speculative Design

Benjamin Bratton

New Black Face — Neuland and Lithos as Stereotypography

The Modernist Grid

Meggs History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meegs

The Medium is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan

Ronald McDonald Ollie Dos & Don’ts — What Mascots Can Teach Us About Branding

The Macrame Of Resistance

Looking Closer 3 — Classic Writings on Graphic Design

Bierut, Helfand, Heller

What's "Crystal Goblet" in Korean?

Cameron Tonkinwise

Is Graphic Design Too White?

The Interaction of Color

Hooked on a Feeling

Good History/Bad History

The Futurist Manifesto

Filippo Tommaso

How Long Has This Been Going On? "Harpers Bazaar,""Funny Face," and the Construction of the Modernist Woman

Kenneth FitzGerald

First Things First

First Things First (2000)

Enclosed by Images — The Eames Multimedia Architecture

Beatriz Columina

The Elements of Color

Designing in the Borderlands

Designer as Producer

Victor Margolin

Designer as Producer

Designer as Author

Design Without Designers

Design Thinking

The Death of the Author

Criticality and its Discontents

Critical Omissions

Critical Graphic Design — Critical of What?

Francisco Laranjo

Critical Everything

Francisco Laranjo

Colour and Culture

Clearing the Haze — Prologue to Postmodern Graphic Design Education through Sheila de Bretteville

Izzy Berenson, Sarah Honeth

Can Jokes Bring Down Goverments?

Brand States—Postmodern Power, Democratic Pluralism, and Design

Brand New Worlds

Andrew Blauvelt

The Art of Critical Making

Rosanne Somerson, Mara Hermano

All Possible Futures

Style is not a Four Letter Word