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Alice Twemlow

Recent articles by Alice Twemlow

The alternative viewpointIssue 97, Autumn 2018
Feature

	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 gridnikIssue 93, Winter 2017
Review

                                                Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait of the…                        
End of history? Graphic design hasn’t startedIssue 59, Spring 2006
Review

                                                The New Views symposium elicited two distinct perspectives on graphic design history, raising questions about…                        
Unstable relationsIssue 68, Summer 2008
Review

                                                In what ways does language shape our understanding of art and design? This is the…                        
Ordinary valuesIssue 80, Summer 2011
Feature

	Design discourse is slowly learning to appreciate the essence of the everyday, writes Alice Twemlow
            
Deadpan Dutch design [extract]Feature

Sex on the coffee table [EXTRACT]Feature

Adding muscle to design with a computer-game protein shakeFeature

Theories look good on paperFeature

The decriminalisation of ornamentIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature

                                            Spurned and marginalised for more than a century, decoration is enjoying a guilt-free renaissance
            
Electronic TumbleweedIssue 63, Spring 2007
Review

                                                When someone sets out to make a book to save the planet, they lay themselves…                        
‘No muscles, no tattoos’Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Feature

                                            Each of Jop van Bennekom’s eccentric magazines perches precariously at its niche’s edge
            
Club-wielding poster boyIssue 77, Autumn 2010
Review

                                                ‘American Badass’, ‘Totally Live, Totally Nude’, and ‘Follow Your Damn Bliss’ are some of the…                        
Forensic typesIssue 54, Winter 2004
Feature

                                            Excavating the history of lettering gives this New York foundry a contemporary edge
            
Marian Bantjes: OrnamentalityIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature

                                            For Marian Bantjes the most powerful ornament comes out of obsession and long hours of intense labour
            
Denise Gonzales Crisp: The decorationalIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature

                                            For Denise Gonzales Crisp, typography has the deepest tradition of the decorative within graphic design
            
Mooren and Van der Velden: Argyle charmIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature

                                            The Dutch design duo see decoration as a way to convey messages that are not direct statements
            
Omnivore: Perspective and embellishmentIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature

                                            Karen Hsu and Alice Chung of Omnivore use ornament to add meaning to a client brief
            
ListsIssue 47, Spring 2003
Feature

                                            From the (a) trivial to the (b) deadly serious, lists dominate visual culture
            
Conference madnessIssue 49, Autumn 2003
Feature

                                            It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll
            
The loneliest insight?Issue 50, Winter 2003
Feature

	A broadsheet tackles Helvetica’s use and abuse with the eye of an outsider
            
A refreshing shock to the system [extract]Issue 48, Summer 2003
Opinion

                                            Jean Widmer, A Devotion to Modernism: Itinerary of a Designer from Zurich to Paris