“Design’s Just Dessert,” at Voice: the AIGA Journal of Design. One commentator found the essay had an “inspired metaphor” but was ultimately “irresponsible.” Like him, most enjoyed the cake mix beginning but disagreed with or were confused by the “not good for you” conclusion.
“I Believe in Design,” on Design Observer, published March 22, 2009. For a gallery with more images of the van mentioned at the start and end of the piece, go here.
File Under Nowhere: The Photo Albums of Rudy VanderLans (from their “Visual Types” catalog), “Skilling Saws and Absorbent Catalogs” (from Emigre #48), and “Seeing and Reading (A Viewer’s Guide to Periodic Literature)” from IDEA magazine #314 are featured in the “Essays” sections of the Emigre web site.
Two posts as moderator of Field Trip, the blog component of the Schools of Thoughts 3 graphic design education conference, March 2007
“The Resistance,” an article for Voice: AIGA Journal of Design in January 2007. In addition to the postings along with the article, the essay received a variety of responses on other blogs, from “interesting,” and “well-written,” to “[the article] irresponsibly mischaracterized and championed unhealthy versions of [design/business and designer/client] relationships.”
The essay “An Instructor of Concern” appeared in Voice in February 2005.
“The Printer’s Devil’s Dictionary,” a guest post on the Speak Up design blog, April 2007
“Martin Venezky’s Beautiful Melancholy,” an entry on the Design Observer blog, August 2005
