Alice Twemlow at WebVisions 2011 - 6766255761 (cropped)

Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator from the

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whose work focuses on

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. She has been a guest critic at the

Yale University School of Art The Yale School of Art is the art school of Yale University. Founded in 1869 as the first professional fine arts school in the United States, it grants Masters of Fine Arts degrees to students completing a two-year course in graphic design, painti ...

, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). In 2006, the

School of Visual Arts The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design. History This school was started by ...

(SVA) in New York named Twemlow the chair and co-founder of its Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism (

D-Crit D-Crit is the Design Criticism MFA department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, chaired by Alice Twemlow and co-founded along with Steven Heller in 2006. In Fall 2008, the department enrolled 15 students, who became the inaugural cl ...

). According to her SVA biography: “Alice Twemlow writes for ''Eye'', ''Design Issues'', ''I.D.'', ''Print'', ''New York'' magazine and ''The Architect’s Newspaper''.” Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication: ''Voice:

AIGA The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a professional organization for design. Its members practice all forms of communication design, including graphic design, typography, interaction design, user experience, branding and identity ...

Journal of Design''. In 2012 Core77 selected Twemlow as a jury captain for the “Design Writing and Commentary” category of the Core77 Design Awards. Twemlow was head of the MA in Design Curating & Writing at

Design Academy Eindhoven Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international recognition, and is widely regarded as one of the w ...

, 2017-2018, and is now Lector Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in The Hague, and Associate Professor at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

Books

* ''StyleCity New York'', Thames & Hudson, 2003. () * ''What is Graphic Design For? (Essential Design Handbooks)'', RotoVision, 2006. () * ''Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism'', MIT Press, 2017. ()

Magazine articles

* ''The Raw Materials of Fiction'', ''Baseline'' 25, edited by Mike Daines & Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 1998. * ''Forensic Types'', ''Eye'', No. 54, Vol. 14 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2004

* ''The Decriminalization of Ornament'', ''Eye'', List of Eye magazine issues, No. 58, Vol. 15 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2005

* ''Well Hung'', ''Grafik Magazine'', No. 126, February 2005. — An article on artist Ryan McGinness. * ''No Muscles, No Tattoos'', ''Eye'', No. 61, Vol. 16 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Autumn 2006

External links

www.alicetwemlow.com

Bio from the University of Minnesota's Design Institute

SVA News: SVA announces Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism

an online article on Peter Saville (artist), Peter Saville by Alice Twemlow.
Article

Design Observer Author Profile

Interview on Scratching the Surface
(December 27, 2017)

References

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