Alice Twemlow

Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator whose work focuses on graphic design.

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, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and RISD.^[1] 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 (D-Crit).^[2] According to her SVA biography: “Alice Twemlow writes for Eye, Design Issues, I.D., Print, New York magazine and The Architect’s Newspaper.” ^[3] Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design.^[4]

Books

• 365: AIGA Year in Design 23, AIGA, 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, Eye, No. 54, Vol. 14 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2004.
• The Decriminalization of Ornament, Eye, 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

• 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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