Alice Twemlow
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Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator whose work focuses on graphic design
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Twemlow earned an MA in design history from a joint program of the Royal College of Art
and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She has been a guest critic at the Yale University School of Art
and at RISD. http://design.umn.edu/go/person/Twemlow_Alice In 2006 the School of Visual Arts
(SVA) in New York named Twemlow the chair of its new Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism. http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/news/index.jsp?sid0=228&page_id=519&content_id=1835 According to her SVA biography: “Alice Twemlow writes for Eye
, Design Issues, I.D.
, Print
, New York magazine
and The Architect’s Newspaper.” http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/news/index.jsp?sid0=228&page_id=519&content_id=1835 Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication: Voice: AIGA
Journal of Design. http://journal.aiga.org/
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
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Twemlow earned an MA in design history from a joint program of the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She has been a guest critic at the Yale University School of Art
Yale School of Art
The Yale School of Art is one of twelve constituent schools of Yale University. It is a professional art school, granting only Masters of Fine Arts degrees to those completing studies in graphic design, painting/printmaking, photography, or sculpture....
and at RISD. http://design.umn.edu/go/person/Twemlow_Alice In 2006 the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
(SVA) in New York named Twemlow the chair of its new Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism. http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/news/index.jsp?sid0=228&page_id=519&content_id=1835 According to her SVA biography: “Alice Twemlow writes for Eye
Eye (magazine)
Eye Magazine, The International Review of Graphic Design is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture.- History :...
, Design Issues, I.D.
I.D. (magazine)
I.D. was a magazine covering the art, business and culture of design. It was published eight times a year by F+W Media....
Print (magazine)
The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.In its current format, Print documents and...
, New York magazine
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
and The Architect’s Newspaper.” http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/news/index.jsp?sid0=228&page_id=519&content_id=1835 Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication: Voice: AIGA
Aiga
‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...
Journal of Design. http://journal.aiga.org/
Books
- 365: AIGA Year in Design 23, AIGAAiga‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...
, 2003. (ISBN 978-1884081033) - With Lucas Dietrich, StyleCity New York, Thames & Hudson, 2003. (ISBN 978-0500210079)
- What is Graphic Design For? (Essential Design Handbooks), RotoVision, 2006. (ISBN 978-2940361076)
Magazine articles
- The Raw Materials of Fiction, Baseline 25, edited by Mike Daines & Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 1998.
- Forensic Types, EyeEye (magazine)Eye Magazine, The International Review of Graphic Design is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture.- History :...
, No. 54, Vol. 14 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2004. http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=119&fid=532 - The Decriminalization of Ornament, EyeEye (magazine)Eye Magazine, The International Review of Graphic Design is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture.- History :...
, No. 58, Vol. 15 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2005. http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=126&fid=553 - Well Hung, Grafik Magazine, No. 126, February 2005. — An article on artist Ryan McGinnessRyan McGinnessRyan McGinness is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an...
. - No Muscles, No Tattoos, EyeEye (magazine)Eye Magazine, The International Review of Graphic Design is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture.- History :...
, No. 61, Vol. 16 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Autumn 2006. http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=140&fid=587
External links
- Bio from the University of Minnesota's Design Institute
- SVA News: SVA announces Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism
- The Dark Prince, an online article on Peter Saville by Alice Twemlow.
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