Alice Twemlow
Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator from the United Kingdom whose work focuses on graphic design.
Twemlow earned a Ph.D from the History of Design program run as a joint venture by 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, and Rhode Island School of Design. In 2006 the School of Visual Arts in New York named Twemlow the chair and co-founder of its Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism. According to her SVA biography: “Alice Twemlow writes for Eye, Design Issues, I.D., Print, New York magazine and The Architect’s Newspaper.” Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design. In 2012 Core77 selected Twemlow as a jury captain for the “Design Writing and Commentary” category of the Core77 Design Awards. 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 in The Hague, and Associate Professor at Leiden University.Books
- StyleCity New York, Thames & Hudson, 2003.
- What is Graphic Design For? , RotoVision, 2006.
- Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism, MIT Press, 2017.
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.
