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The Education of a Design Writer
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The Education of a Design Writer by Steven Heller and Molly Heintz is a compelling collection of essays and interviews from prolific design writers and educators at SVA/NYC. This collection is perfect for anyone interested in critiquing, explaining, or interpreting design. Writing is designing, and writers...
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The Education of a Design Writer by Steven Heller and Molly Heintz is a compelling collection of essays and interviews from prolific design writers and educators at SVA/NYC. This collection is perfect for anyone interested in critiquing, explaining, or interpreting design.
Writing is designing, and writers are designers. Mastering the elements of different writing styles is as important in describing a designed work as understanding colour, texture, and material form. A design writer must make the prose as necessary and exciting to read as a designed object—from the simplest business card or product packaging to the grandest monument—is to see and to use.
This book is for both students and experts, novices and professionals, who seek to communicate effectively. With real-world examples of how and what to write when critiquing, explaining, discovering, introducing, and interpreting a piece of design, it presents a tantalising world of possibilities for any design writer. The collected essays encompass a range of styles and disciplines, from journalism, scholarship, criticism, to business. Contributors include:
- Sarah Boxer
- Akiko Busch
- Liz Danzico
- Jarrett Fuller
- Colette Gaiter
- Karrie Jacobs
- Mark Kingsley
- Julie Lasky
- Warren Lehrer
- Rob Walker
- Michele Y. Washington
- and many more!
Explaining design means writing intelligibly and creatively. The Education of a Design Writer covers it all, for and through those who practice, chronicle, critique, and observe graphic, product, industrial, and architectural design.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781621538417
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 August 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Allworth Press,U.S.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 885g
Pages: 312
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About the Author
Steven Heller is co-founder and co-chair emeritus of the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and writes a daily column for www.printmag.com. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of more than 170 books on design and popular culture and in 2011 received a Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award. He lives in New York City.
Molly Heintz is a writer and editor specializing in architecture and design. Since 2015, she has served as the chair of the MA Design Research, Writing & Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts. She is a co-founder of the editorial consultancy Superscript, which has developed programming, exhibitions, and editorial content for a variety of institutions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Museum of Arts and Design, and MoMA.
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