Archive for category: The death of graphic-design criticism

The long, slow, deserved death of “traditional” graphic-design criticism. Its practitioners will be the last to know

Superexclusive conservative-design update    (2018.03.01)

Brad Parscale and Sabo (and Michael Bierut)

‘Super-Cannes’ locations    (2014.09.05)

Rick Poynor: Locations in Super-Cannes

‘Eye’ 87    (2014.07.12)

No review of the “Food Special Issue.” Eye is a fraud. (Project concluded as of 2014.11.03)

‘Eye’ 86    (2013.11.17)

Issue 86 of Eye: Letraset as historical artifact no more important than Polish protest posters, and get that fucking hair out of your eyelash, Alice Rawsthorn

‘Eye’ 85    (2013.08.28)

In issue 85 of Eye, the biggest charlatans of the year: Lust (sic)

Daring critique of design criticism    (2013.07.07)

Are pizza flyers good design? Don’t ask a design intellectual

(Re)vision(ism) of ACT UP (demo)graphics    (2013.06.23)

Some dumb twat retypeset “ACT UP” with Arial. And nominating Julianne Escobedo Shepherd as buzzword-wielding vizmin of the year

‘Eye’ 84    (2013.03.05)

Eye’s Monotype special, in which Ultrasparky has never seemed more Ultrastilted

‘Eye’ 83    (2013.01.22)

Eye 83, filled to the brim with features on designers you’ve read about for decades and other designers so successful they don’t need clients anymore