People and visual authors
Critics and theorists
Authors who shaped the language design uses to describe itself.
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Alice Rawsthorn
Design criticism addressed to a wide audience, insisting that design is change rather than styling.02Beatriz Colomina
Architecture as media: photography, publication, health and the public production of space03Donald Norman
User error as a defect of design rather than a property of the user.04Hal Foster
A critique of the condition in which everything turns out to be designed, including the consumer.05John Berger
Art, Power and the Politics of Looking06Marshall McLuhan
The carrier of a message changes perception more than the message does.07Reyner Banham
Architecture after style: technology, climate, pop culture and environmental criticism08Roland Barthes
Signs, Myth, Fashion and Photography as Systems of Reading09Susan Sontag
Image, distance and the morality of spectatorship: photography criticism as cultural power10Victor Papanek
The demand that the consequences of a design decision be counted as part of the decision itself.