D-Crit in the Media

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 about the SVA Design Criticism MFA program, its graduates and its publications:

Time Out NewYork: One-minute lecture: “How to Capture the Culture Zeitgeist” by Carolyn Stanley

Design Bureau: Dialogue: SVA’s D-Crit by Sarah Handelman

BaseNow: Interview with Alice Twemlow (part one and two) by Geoff Cook

étapes: international: Design Criticism Courses by Rick Poynor

Ready Made: Taking Notes: The 2011 D-Crit Conference at SVA by Lily Kane

Visual Arts Journal: Making the Write Decision by Angela Riechers

Core 77: SVA D-Crit Preview Q&As with Avinash Rajagopal, Vera Sacchetti and Molly Heintz

New York Times blog: Our Weekend Reading (and Watching and Listening): Vera Sacchetti, “Design Crusades”

Grafik: Critical Mass featuring Aileen Kwun, Alice Twemlow and others.

Huffington Post: At the High Line: A Different Kind of Book Club Begins by Paul Needham

The Atlantic: Why Google Will Never Beat Old Fashioned Research by Steven Heller

Disegno: Steve Jobs’ wardrobe (In D-Crit Chapbook Dress) by Barbara Eldredge

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