http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/033/poynor.htm
Great article on design criticism.
"Yet it's surprising how rarely design magazines use the resources at their disposal - photographs, diagrams, illustrations - in partnership with words to deliver an incisive commentary on the visual realm. Why is the prevailing visual mode always celebratory? That might be appropriate for the glossy, weekend-break, luxury-lifestyle end of publishing, but not for magazines professing a commitment to design thinking. And why isn't humour used more often to puncture pretension and cut the over-mighty down to size? Music magazines have been doing this for years. While criticism needs space to stretch out, it can also be delivered in sharp, concentrated bursts. It should be as unpredictable and inventive as the best design."
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