Author: Crisp, Denise Gonzales

Source: Design and Culture, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2009 , pp. 105-120(16)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

Abstract:

Throughout the history of design critical writing, scholars and critics have employed standard rhetorical strategies of exposition to ground their critical discourse. This essay focuses on a different group of design writers I call "designwrights." These writers use the rhetorical position of fiction to capture facets of the design world not readily expressed in expository prose. The essay examines some historical origins and contemporary work by designwrights such as William Morris, W.A. Dwiggins, Putch Tu and Bruce Sterling - writers who invent personae and neologisms, who craft manifestoes or satire, and who have expanded the possibilities for the form and delivery of critical design writing.

Keywords: GRAPHIC DESIGN CRITICISM; DESIGN WRITING; DESIGN DISCOURSE; DESIGNWRIGHT

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175470709787375850

Publication date: 2009-03-01

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