Alice Twemlow stopped by this past Thursday, and conducted desk crits with MFA 2s as part of the Visiting Designer Lecture Series. Alice is in Los Angeles for a related CalArts event celebrating the launch of faculty member Louise Sandhaus’s book Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986 (Metropolis/Artbooks D.A.P). Alice will moderate a panel discussion in conjunction with the launch of Louise’s book and will be joined by former CalArts faculty Lou Danziger, artist April Greiman, and graphic designers Richard Taylor and John Van Hamersveld. The panel discussion What a Riot!: An Earthquake, Two Mudslides, and a Girl on Fire happens at MOCA this Saturday 11/22. More information on the event can be found here.

Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator whose work focuses on graphic design. She has an MA in Design History from the Royal College of Art/V&A Museum in London, where she is currently a PhD candidate in Graphic Design History. As the co-founder and chair of the two-year graduate program in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Twemlow is at the forefront of design education. She is the author of What is Graphic Design For? and has written essays for books such as The Barnbrook Bible and 60 Innovators: Shaping Our Creative Futures, as well as the catalogue for “Graphic Design Worlds” at La Triennale Design Museum in Milana. Additionally, Twemlow is contributor to Design Observer as well as Arena, Baseline, Communication Arts, Design Issues, Design Observer, Eye, Graphis, and I.D. amongst others.