Issue 2 of Modes of Criticism –Critique of Method, with contributions by Anne Bush, Peter Buwert, Jan van Toorn, Noel Waite, Ahmed Ansari and Matthew Kiem.
This essay, which serves as the editorial for Modes of Criticism 1, traces the heritage of the term ‘post-critical’ in graphic design discourse by connecting it to other related ‘posts’. Avoiding the Post-critical is preceded by the visual essay The Architecture of Gambling.
This article investigates the heritage of the term ‘critical graphic design’ by highlighting its precedents and manifestations in contemporary graphic design practice and education. Originally published on Design Obsever. Republished in The Graphic Design Reader (Bloomsbury, 2015).
