SVA MA Design Research

SVA MA Design Research, Writing & Criticism1 is a one-year graduate program2
devoted to the study of design, its contexts & consequences.
Our graduates have gone on to pursue research-related careers in publishing, education, museums, institutes, design practice, entrepreneurship, & more.3

  1. Formerly known as D-Crit
  2. About the program
  3. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. All successful candidates awarded a significant scholarship!
SVA MA Design Research

136 W 21st St, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10011

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designresearch@sva.edu

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@dcrit

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(212) 592-2228

Eric Schwartau – SVA MA Design Research

Eric Schwartau

MA Design Research Director of Operations; Co-founder Talk Hole

Eric Schwartau is an artist, writer, and cofounder of Talk Hole, an “art-jacent” comedy brand and duo. Talk Hole has produced and hosted shows in collaboration with the New Museum, DIS Magazine, MoMA PS1, NADA Art Fair, Material Art Fair, Independent Curators International, and NeueHouse. Talk Hole currently writes a bimonthly column in Interview Magazine and their work has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Dazed & Confused, Time Out New York, Arte.tv and Mic.com. He is also a copywriter and creative director whose clients have included AmBev, Porto Rocha, Chandelier Creative, Peoplestrology and FXFowle.

He is a former Editor at TASCHEN Books and holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Vassar College, receiving Honors for his thesis examining the connection between HGTV’s “designed to sell” programming and the US subprime mortgage crisis. He has a (scholarly) obsession with House Hunters.