School of Visual Arts MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series

The School of Visual Arts announced its Spring 2009 Design Criticism Lecture Series.

All lectures are free and open to the public.

The new MFA in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts is also accepting applications for Fall 2009.

This innovative two-year program trains students to research, analyze, and evaluate design and its social and environmental implications.

Study with some of the best design writers and thinkers of our time, including: "Studio 360" host and author Kurt Andersen; MoMA's design curator Paola Antonelli; Pentagram partner and co-founder of Design Observer, Michael Bierut; former editor of I.D. Magazine Ralph Caplan; Metropolis contributing editor Karrie Jacobs; and architecture critic Philip Nobel.