A talk with Alice Twemlow, co-founder of the MFA Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts. You don't go to art school to learn to write, right? Wrong. These days, art departments are as ...

Harald Geisler is a bit obsessed with handwriting. He spent two and a half months re-creating Albert Einstein’s penmanship. Then he created a romantic script just for lovers. Now, thanks to a ...

This rigorous one-year program equips students with tools for researching, chronicling, and interpreting all aspects of design. Each student is asked to identify an individual research territory to ...

The School of Visual Arts MFA Design Criticism invites you to join them for a two-week intensive to research and write about design. Participants will be introduced to a range of techniques for ...

This studio course will focus on core writing skills and effective methods for researching, analyzing, evaluation and chronicling design issues. Students will address both critical thinking about ...

I recently reported that David Pierce at The Wall Street Journal wants to bring back voice communications in the form of the walkie-talkie. He wants to bring back handwriting as well. “Handwriting has ...

From June 4–15, 2018, the Department of Design Research, Writing and Criticism at the School of Visual Arts will host its annual two-week intensive dedicated to researching and writing about design.