Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator from the United Kingdom whose work focuses on graphic design. She has been a guest critic at the Yale University School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).^[1] In 2006, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York named Twemlow the chair and co-founder of its Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism (D-Crit).^[2] According to her SVA biography: "Alice Twemlow writes for Eye, Design Issues, I.D., Print, New York magazine and The Architect’s Newspaper."^[3] Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication Voice: AIGA Journal of Design.^[4] In 2012 Core77 selected her as a jury captain for the “Design Writing and Commentary” category of the Core77 Design Awards.^[5] Twemlow was head of the MA in Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2017-2018, and is now Lector Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in The Hague,^[6] and Associate Professor at Leiden University.^[7][8]

Books

• StyleCity New York, Thames & Hudson, 2003. (ISBN 978-0500210079)
• What is Graphic Design For? (Essential Design Handbooks), RotoVision, 2006. (ISBN 978-2940361076)
• Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism, MIT Press, 2017. (ISBN 978-0262035989)

Magazine articles

• The Raw Materials of Fiction, Baseline 25, edited by Mike Daines & Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 1998.
• Forensic Types, Eye, No. 54, Vol. 14 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2004. [1]
• The Decriminalization of Ornament, Eye, No. 58, Vol. 15 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Winter 2005. [2]
• Well Hung, Grafik Magazine, No. 126, February 2005. — An article on artist Ryan McGinness.
• No Muscles, No Tattoos, Eye, No. 61, Vol. 16 edited by John L. Walters, Haymarket, London, Autumn 2006. [3]