D-CritBook Launch: The Education of a Design Writing

Celebrate the launch of The Education of a Design Writer (Allworth 2025), a new collection edited by Steven Heller and Molly Heintz that explores the craft and creativity of writing about design across disciplines.

The evening will feature readings and discussion with contributors Alicia Ajayi, Chappell Ellison, Karrie Jacobs, Tiffany Jow, Julie Lasky, and Adam Harrison Levy followed by a reception upstairs at the D-Crit studio.

6:30 PM – Doors open, SVA Graduate Center (Ground Floor)

7:00 PM – Readings & Discussion

8:00 PM – Reception & Book Sales (D-Crit Studio, 2nd Floor)

Books will be available for purchase on site courtesy of Head Hi.

RSVP now to reserve your spot and join the celebration!

Featuring both acclaimed authors and new voices, The Education of a Design Writer spans design–related disciplines with examples that showcase a variety of styles, techniques, and best practices for writing about design. Site visits, interviewing, personal reflection, and incisive analysis become the basis of stories that demonstrate how design writing can be a springboard for engaging cultural criticism. Contributors include Julie Lasky, Rob Walker, Colette Gaiter, Sarah Boxer, Virginia Postrel, Anne Quito, Liz Danzico, Jarrett Fuller, Michele Washington, and more.

Interpreting design means writing intelligibly and creatively. This book is for those who practice, observe, chronicle, and critique all forms of design—graphic, product, UX, industrial, and architectural, building on the approach of the MA program Design Research, Writing & Criticism, a.k.a. D-Crit, at the School of Visual Arts. 

Steven Heller is co-founder and co-chair emeritus of the MFA Design program at New York’s School of Visual Arts and writes a daily column for www.printmag.com. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of more than 170 books on design and popular culture and in 2011 received a Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award. He lives in New York City.

Molly Heintz is a writer and editor specializing in architecture and design. Since 2015, she has served as the chair of the MA Design Research, Writing & Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts. She is a co-founder of the editorial consultancy Superscript, which has developed programming, exhibitions, and editorial content for a variety of institutions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Museum of Arts and Design, and MoMA.

Book design by Landers Miller.