Education of a Design Writer

Writing is designing, and writers are designers. Mastering the elements of different writing styles is as important in describing a designed work as an understanding of color, texture, and material form. The design writer must make the prose as necessary and exciting to read as a designed object--from the simplest business card or product packaging to the grandest monument--must be to see and to use.

This book is for the student or the expert, the novice or the professional, who seeks to communicate. With real-world examples of how and what to write when critiquing, explaining, discovering, introducing, and interpreting a piece of design, it presents a tantalizing world of possibilities for any design writer. The collected essays include a range of styles and disciplines, from journalism, scholarship, criticism, and business. Contributors include:

• Sarah Boxer
• Akiko Busch
• Liz Danzico
• Jarrett Fuller
• Colette Gaiter
• Karrie Jacobs
• Mark Kingsley
• Julie Lasky
• Warren Lehrer
• Rob Walker
• Michele Y. Washington
• and many more!