Alice Twemlow

Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator from the United Kingdom whose work focuses on graphic design. She has been a guest critic at the Yale University School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).^[1] In 2006, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York named Twemlow the chair and co-founder of its 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."^[2] Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication Voice: AIGA Journal of Design.^[3] In 2012 Core77 selected her as a jury captain for the "Design Writing and Commentary" category of the Core77 Design Awards.^[4] Twemlow was head of the MA in Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2017–2018, and is now Lector Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in The Hague,^[5] and associate professor at Leiden University.^[6]^[7]

Books

StyleCity New York, Thames & Hudson, 2003. (ISBN 978-0500210079)
What is Graphic Design For? (Essential Design Handbooks), RotoVision, 2006. (ISBN 978-2940361076)
Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism, MIT Press, 2017. (ISBN 978-0262035989)

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.^[8]
The Decriminalization of Ornament, Eye, No. 58, Vol. 15 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2005.^[9]
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.^[10]

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1 2 "School of Visual Arts". Archived from the original on 20 May 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
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↑ "Core77 Design Awards 2012: Meet the Jury, Alice Twemlow - Design Writing and Commentary - Core77". Core77. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
↑ "Alice Twemlow appointed Lector Design | KABK". KABK. KABK. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
↑ "Alice Twemlow, Head Master Design Curating & Writing". www.designacademy.nl. Archived from the original on 14 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
↑ "Alice Twemlow". Leiden University. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
↑ Alice Twemlow. "Excavating the history of lettering gives this New York foundry a contemporary edge". www.eyemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2006. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
↑ Alice Twemlow. "Spurned and marginalised for more than a century, decoration is enjoying a guilt-free renaissance". www.eyemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 6 February 2006. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
↑ Alice Twemlow. "Each of Jop van Bennekom's eccentric magazines perches precariously at its niche's edge". www.eyemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 12 November 2006.