Design Criticism's Winding Road
by Alice Twemlow for Design Observer
Alice Twemlow’s article “Design Criticism’s Winding Road” is an inspiring account of the early days of critical writing in design.
Through a wonderful recount of Deborah Allen’s 1950s car reviews for Industrial Design magazine, Twemlow relays the power and importance of design criticism, a genre of writing characterized by a sensibility to the contexts and intentions of the medium.
“Her sensibility to the ways in which people inhabit cars, and to how industrial design is experienced bodily, differentiates her writing from art criticism.”
