NEW SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: SVA MFA in Design Criticism Accepting Applications for Fall 2013

Published: 25 Jan 2013

Announcing the Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive, June 3–14, 2013

Published: 25 Jan 2013

Photos and Videos Now Available! counter/point: The 2013 D-Crit Conference on May 11

Published: 25 Jan 2013

SAVE THE DATE: The 2013 D-Crit Conference

Published: 12 Dec 2012

The 2013 D-Crit Conference, featuring graduating students of the SVA MFA in Design Criticism, will take place on May 11, 2013 at the Visual Arts Theatre in New York City.
Keynote speakers and moderators for this year’s conference will be announced in coming months. Topics to be addressed include: segregation in today’s built [...]

On Video: SVA MFA Design Criticism 2012 Open House (featuring Milton Glaser)

Published: 3 Nov 2012

D-Crit Grads at Work

Published: 19 Jun 2012

2012, 2011 and 2010 D-Crit graduates have landed positions as curator at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, U.S. editor at DomusWeb, researcher at Bjarke Ingels Group, assistant editor at Metropolis, managing editor at Architect’s Newspaper, head of international PR at Experimenta Design: The Lisbon Design Biennial, and fellows at the Philip Johnson Glass House [...]

Eventually Everything: The 2012 D-Crit Conference

Published: 2 May 2012

The 2012 D-Crit Conference, featuring graduating students of the SVA MFA in Design Criticism, and moderated by Change Observer co-editor Julie Lasky, will take place on May 2, 2012 at the Visual Arts Theatre in New York City. This year’s conference is comprised of four themed panels, each introduced by keynote speakers, including media historian Stuart [...]

Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive

Published: 9 Jan 2012

This summer, D-Crit launched a design writing intensive aimed at those who would like to refine their skills as thinkers, researchers and storytellers. For practicing designers, this is a chance to examine the profession and its impact through projects, articles and blog posts. For journalists and writers, this program offers methods and insights for understanding [...]

D-Crit in the Media

Published: 8 Dec 2011

Rick Poynor gets critical about the design critic’s education; Vera Sacchetti tells why, oftentimes, social design as we know it is not good enough; Aileen Kwun explains how D-Crit lived up to her expectations; Steve Heller insists that Google will never replace hands-on involvement (hence his “No Google” research class)… Read on in recent articles [...]

D-Crit Chapbook Launch: Dress

Published: 28 Nov 2011

D-Crit is thrilled to announce the launch of its second Chapbook, Dress.
Untangling the sartorial signifiers and unique style of public figures from various corners of the pop culture circuit—including Julian Schnabel, Dora the Explorer, Steve Jobs and Muammar al-Gadaffi—Dress assembles eleven essays by writers from the School of Visual Arts’ pioneering Design Criticism MFA program, [...]