Alice Twemlow
Recent articles by Alice Twemlow
The alternative viewpoint
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
The magazines in the stable of Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers are as distinctive in their editorial voices as they are in their visual tone and design
More than just a gridnik
Issue 93, Winter 2016
Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait of the…
End of history? Graphic design hasn’t started
Issue 59, Spring 2006
The New Views symposium elicited two distinct perspectives on graphic design history, raising questions about…
Unstable relations
Issue 68, Summer 2008
In what ways does language shape our understanding of art and design? This is the…
Ordinary values
Issue 80, Summer 2011
Design discourse is slowly learning to appreciate the essence of the everyday, writes Alice Twemlow
The decriminalisation of ornament
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Spurned and marginalised for more than a century, decoration is enjoying a guilt-free renaissance
‘No muscles, no tattoos’
Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Each of Jop van Bennekom’s eccentric magazines perches precariously at its niche’s edge
Electronic Tumbleweed
Issue 63, Spring 2007
When someone sets out to make a book to save the planet, they lay themselves…
Omnivore: Perspective and embellishment
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Karen Hsu and Alice Chung of Omnivore use ornament to add meaning to a client brief
Mooren and Van der Velden: Argyle charm
Issue 58, Winter 2005
The Dutch design duo see decoration as a way to convey messages that are not direct statements
Denise Gonzales Crisp: The decorational
Issue 58, Winter 2005
For Denise Gonzales Crisp, typography has the deepest tradition of the decorative within graphic design
Marian Bantjes: Ornamentality
Issue 58, Winter 2005
For Marian Bantjes the most powerful ornament comes out of obsession and long hours of intense labour
Forensic types
Issue 54, Winter 2004
Excavating the history of lettering gives this New York foundry a contemporary edge
Club-wielding poster boy
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
‘American Badass’, ‘Totally Live, Totally Nude’, and ‘Follow Your Damn Bliss’ are some of the…
Lists
Issue 47, Spring 2003
From the (a) trivial to the (b) deadly serious, lists dominate visual culture
The loneliest insight?
Issue 50, Winter 2003
A broadsheet tackles Helvetica’s use and abuse with the eye of an outsider
Conference madness
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll
A refreshing shock to the system [extract]
Issue 48, Summer 2003
Jean Widmer, A Devotion to Modernism: Itinerary of a Designer from Zurich to Paris