A recent closet clean-out turned up this curio from BaseWords: an introduction to our writing department from its earliest days. Put together for the internal, ironically named Base Summit, in December 2005, this little presentation was designed to explain to Base’s designers how BaseWords can work with them.
Narrated by voiceover artist and Recorded Books reader Nick Landrum.
The elegant Alice Twemlow is a design writer, curator and critic based in New York City. A long-time voice within the graphic design community, she has directed several conferences for the AIGA and is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision, 2006) and StyleCity New York (Thames & Hudson, 2005). … more
The elegant Alice Twemlow is a design writer, curator, and critic based in New York City. A long-time voice within the graphic design community, she has directed several conferences for the AIGA and is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision, 2006) and StyleCity New York (Thames & Hudson, 2005).
As the Chair of Design Criticism (D-Crit), an MFA program she co-founded with Steven Heller, she … more
BaseWords is writing division of Base. Each Wednesday try to post some of work on BaseNow. This week write about new writing plague.
Am writing about new trend. Have noticed people not use articles, subjects, verbs in emails. Am bothered by it. Sound like robots sending telegrams. Tarzan writing headlines. Am wondering what wrong with letter I. Or “the.” Suspect texting to blame. Certainly is not for save time. Am asking self how/why acceptable, especially in biz context. … more
