Design Criticism: SVA's Reading Series

SVA's Design Criticism reading series: Andrea Codrington, Steven Heller and Philip Nobel look at design through the murky lens of evil.

Andrea Codrington is a New York--based writer specializing in design and visual culture. Over the past 18 years she has been a columnist for the New York Times, a commissioner at Phaidon Press, an editorial  director at the AIGA, and a senior editor at I.D. Magazine. She is currently creative director of a brand communications company and working on her first novel.

Philip Nobel is the author of Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero(Metropolitan, 2005). His column, "Far Corner," appears monthly in Metropolis magazine and he regularly writes architectural criticism for The New York Times, Vogue, Artforum, The Forward, Architectural Digest and The Nation. Philip has also appeared as a commentator on CBS and MSNBC.

Steven Heller writes a monthly column on graphic design books for The New York Times Book Review and is co-chair of MFA Design at the School of  Visual Arts. He has written more than 100 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, including Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century, Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age, Graphic Design History and The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design. He edits VOICE: The AIGA Online Journal of Graphic Design, and writes for Baseline, Design Observer, Eye, Grafik, I.D., Metropolis, Print, and Step.