Graphic Design Reading

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Critical Design

Critical Theory

Design Thinking

Strategic Design

We Need Graphic Design Histories That Look Beyond the Profession

There Is No Such Thing As Neutral Graphic Design

Ellen Lupton and Leslie Xia

Can We Teach Graphic Design History Without Chronology?

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

This Is Auto-Tune Typography

Silvia Sfligiotti

Graphic Design's Factory Settings

Design Thinking is a Rebrand for White Supremacy

Design Dedication: Adaptive Mentalities in Design Education

Knowing Your Design History is Crucial to Aesthetic Innovation

Can We Teach Graphic Design History Without the Cult of Hero Worship?

Everyday Color Theory

Cortney Cassidy

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant

On Design Thinking

A *New* Program for Graphic Design

On Design Fiction: Close, But No Cigar

Near Future Laboratory

I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

The Temporary Space

International Students Can Teach Us A Lot About Design Education for All

Caspar Lam and YuJune Park

Let’s Teach a History of Ideas, Not the History of Individuals

Juliette Cezzar

Gradients: the colorful design trend aiming to soothe these anxious times

Writing for the Design Mind

Construct a Perfect Pentagon: On standards manuals

Thomas de Monchaux

Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Natasha Iskander

Design Fiction as Pedagogic Practice

Design as an Attitude

Alice Rawsthorn

All Buildings Are Interesting

Black Graphics: Celebrating Designers of Color

Everything Easy is Hard Again

In Defense of Design Thinking, Which is Terrible

How will we queer design education without compromise?

Culture is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer

Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand

Do We Need a History of Graphic Design in Greece?

The Concept Of The Design Discipline

Paul Rodgers and Craig Bremner

Getting Others Right

There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch

Sifting the Trash — A History of Design Criticism

Never Use Futura

Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

Beatriz Columina, Mark Wigley

What Design Can't Do

Post-Identity Design — Brands, Politics, and Technological Instability

Federico Pérez Villoro, Christopher Hamamoto

Ronald McDonald Ollie Dos & Don’ts — What Mascots Can Teach Us About Branding

The Programmed Designer

John-Patrick Hartnett

How Logos Became the Most Important Quarter-Inch in Business

Research Through Design — Twenty-First Century Makers and Materialities

Abigail Durrant, John Vines, Jayne Wallace, Joyce S.R. Yee

Singing the Surface

Kenneth FitzGerald

Homage to an Homage of an Homage

If You Are Writing an Essay or a Thesis

Chappell Ellison

Against Neutrality

A Too-Perfect Picture

Questions to ask yourself when reading about design

A Note on the Type

Not Diving but Swimming

Design — The Invention of Desire

Jessica Helfand

All That Is Solid...

On Speculative Design

Benjamin Bratton

Meggs History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meegs

Colour and Culture

Clearing the Haze — Prologue to Postmodern Graphic Design Education through Sheila de Bretteville

Izzy Berenson, Sarah Honeth

That's Entertaining!

Judgment and Beauty

Now You See It: Helvetica, Modernism, and the Status Quo of Design

The Case for the Sublime Uselessness of Graphic Design

The Debate — The Legendary Contest of Two Giants of Graphic Design

Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel

The Web's Grain

Towards a Critical Faculty (Only an Attitude of Orientation) From the Toolbox of The Serving Library

The Interface Experience

Honeywell, I'm Home!

Cameron Tonkinwise

Hooked on a Feeling

Kenneth FitzGerald

Critical Everything

Francisco Laranjo

Clatter of the Snow Queen

Words as Material

Dynamic Identities

You’ll Never Guess the Amazing Ways Online Design Writing and Criticism Has Changed

Chappell Ellison

Believing is Seeing — Observations on the Mysteries of Photography

Hardy Perennials

Shady Characters — The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

The Museum Interface

Sarah Hromack, Rob Giampietro

Criticism = Love

Alexandra Lange

The Modernist Grid

Designing in the Borderlands

Critical Graphic Design — Critical of What?

Francisco Laranjo

Can Jokes Bring Down Goverments?

All Possible Futures

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses (A Strategic Design Vocabulary)

Nicely Said — Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

Interface Writing

What Screens Want

Multiple Signatures

Graphic Design Criticism as a Spectator Sport

The Global Style

Whitney Graphic Identity

Experimental Jetset

Towards a Critical Graphic Design Practice

Speculative Everything

Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby

The Art of Critical Making

Rosanne Somerson, Mara Hermano

The Design of Everyday Things

Writing About Architecture — Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities

Alexandra Lange

Post Digital Print

Alessandro Ludovico

Platforming Books

Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth

Draw it With Your Eyes Closed

The Digital-Physical

Let's Talk About Women in Architecture

Alexandra Lange

Ken Garland: Structure and Substance

Why Write About Graphic Design?

Jessica Helfand

Future Practice — Conversations from the edge of Architecture

You Say You Want a Devolution

Can Designers Save the World Without Creating More Stuff?

Chappell Ellison

Design Education — Brilliance Without Substance

From The Toolbox of The Serving Library

The Interface — IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design

The Shape of Design

Post Artifact Books and Publishing

Design and Crime

What's "Crystal Goblet" in Korean?

Brand New Worlds

Andrew Blauvelt

Aesthetic Innovation in Indigenous Typefaces

Recipes for Systematic Change

Bryan Boyer, Justin W. Cook, Marco Steinberg

A Note on the Type

Dexter Sinister

The Uselessness of Design Criticism

Thinking With Type

Typeface as Programme

Only an Attitude of Orientation

Whatever Happened to Projective Architecture?

Design Without Designers

Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics, and New Practice

Julian Bleecker

About the word 'design'

Towards Relational Design

Andrew Blauvelt

A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philsophy of Design

Design Thinking

Critical Omissions

Brand States—Postmodern Power, Democratic Pluralism, and Design

The Designer's Dilemma: Changing the way we think about design to better tackle the challenges of environmentalism.

The Death of the Critic

Tense Relations

Designing Interactions

Design as an Ideological State-Apparatus

30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime

Towards a Critical Faculty

The Rise of Research in Graphic Design

Research and Destroy

Daniel Van der Velden

Is Graphic Design Too White?

Design History in Globalization and the Place of East Asian Design

Method Designing — The Paradox of Modern Design Education

Jessica Helfand

Where Are the Design Critics?

Visual Research — An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design

Ian Noble, Russell Bestly

Style is not a Four Letter Word

A Time for Being Against

New Black Face — Neuland and Lithos as Stereotypography

Criticality and its Discontents

Where Are the Design Intellectuals?

How To Say What You Mean

Default Systems in Graphic Design

Rob Giampietro, Rudy VanderLans

What is a designer?

Designer as Producer

Victor Margolin

Enclosed by Images — The Eames Multimedia Architecture

Beatriz Columina

Women Graphic Designers

Ten Footnotes on a Manifesto

Towards a complex simplicity

Andrew Blauvelt

Looking Closer 3 — Classic Writings on Graphic Design

Bierut, Helfand, Heller

First Things First (2000)

Searching for a Black Aesthetic in American Graphic Design Education

Incubation of a Workshop

Graphic Design in the Postmodern Era

The Macrame Of Resistance

Designer as Producer

Some Virtues of Design

The Paradox on the Graphic Artist

Jean-Francois Lyotard

My Typographies

Design — The Blindspot of Theory

From Lascaux to Brooklyn

That was then, and this is now but what is next?

Designer as Author

The ABCs of Bauhaus

Ellen Lupton, Abbott Miller

What is this thing called graphic design criticism?

Michael Rock, Rick Poynor

How Long Has This Been Going On? "Harpers Bazaar,""Funny Face," and the Construction of the Modernist Woman

Zombie Modernism

Under the Surface of Style

Andrew Blauvelt

The Particular Problem of Graphic Design (History)

Andrew Blauvelt

A Poetics of Graphic Design?

Have you ever really looked at this poster?

Messy History vs. Neat History — Toward an Expanded View of Women in Graphic Design

Martha Scotford

Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art

Deconstruction and Graphic Design

Ellen Luption, Abbott Miller

Castles Made of Sand

First Things First

Aims for Oblivion: The History of Women in Early American Graphic Design

Ellen Mazur Thomson

The Tenth Pioneer

Martha Scotford

The (Layered) Vision Thing

The Cult of the Ugly

Criticizing Criticism: Too Little and Too Much

What has writing got to do with design?

Bridget Wilkins

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

Conversation with Richard Hollis on Graphic Design History

Long Live Modernism!

Massimo Vignelli

Good History/Bad History

Tibor Kalman, J. Abbott Miller, Karrie Jacobs

We're Here to be Bad

Tibor Kalman and Karrie Jacobs

The Early Years of Graphic Design at Yale University

Design Discourse (History, Theory, Criticism)

Victor Margolin

Design Interface

Gianni Barbacetto

Typography as Discourse

Katherine McCoy and David Frej

Black Designers — Missing in Action

Cheryl D. Miller

Designerly Ways of Knowing

Amusing Ourselves to Death

When Form has Become Attitude — And Beyond

Thierry de Duve

Call for Criticism

Massimo Vignelli

Design for the Real World

The Shape of Words

Thoughts on Design

Blueprint for Counter Education

Maurice Stein, Larry Miller

The Elements of Color

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin

The Medium is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan

The Death of the Author

Typography is a Grid

Anthony Froshaugh

Understanding Media

Marshall McLuhan

The Interaction of Color

Daniel Boorstin

The Magic of Advertising

Raymond Williams

Continuity and Change

Function in Modern Design

The Crystal Goblet

The Principles of the New Typography

The Futurist Manifesto

Filippo Tommaso

Ornament and Crime