Category: critique

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  Visual Thinking + Discourse Analysis

  One question many discourse analysts ask when they’re familiarizing themselves with data is: how could things be different? If you’re comfortable messing around with Photoshop and your text includes images, then you can create sketches as a way of making these hypothetical differences more concrete. Sketching is a powerful way…

  January 24, 2019
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  Typography Class

  I’m going to be teaching a class on typography next week, and here’s how I’m planning the class: after a brief recap of the assigned readings for the day, we’ll do an informal critique exercise in which we look at different examples of typography whose meaning seems to conflict with…

  December 6, 2018
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  Towards Good Collaboration

  This is a list of rules for collaboration from an expert on what doesn’t work: Be compassionate. If you’re in a design critique, for example, then you ought to be both critical and encouraging. Good critique should be encouraging. If you’re making someone less excited to work on their project…

  August 7, 2018
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  DRS2018 Best Paper Award

  Download/read the paper here.

  July 13, 2018