Art and design writing for artists and designers

We posted about Donald Judd as a model for artists writing about their work. Designers, film makers, photographers also do this, in fact we all do it to some extent as part of our practice. A great example of a designer/writer is Ellen Lupton who seems to produce a couple of books a year while also practicing as a designer and a design educator. She teaches a design writing course at MICA. Another new design criticism course is headed by Alice Twemlow at SVA. Both have some great links and resources, so check out their web sites 

http://www.elupton.com/writing/

http://dcrit.sva.edu/

Some of the relevant links are 

http://abriefmessage.com/ a collection of design comments with a 200 word limit

http://www.designobserver.com/ probably to most high profile design blog

http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/ an experiment in design writing 

Lupton includes general writing advice, for instance

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/beyond.html