This year is a big year for plain language. It’s possible it’s so big because plain language is all I can think about. It’s one of the small ways I advocate for accessibility daily.
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“So… not to be ignorant, but what is digital accessibility?”
This question is a reminder to share not only what I’m passionate about, but to also expand on what digital accessibility means and why it’s important now more than ever before.
Larry Busbea’s The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s is a serious and creative attempt to link twentieth-century architectural landscapes with object–oriented ontology and aesthetics theory. An associate professor of art history at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Busbea’s research focuses on the interactions of design, art, and critical theory.
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Sitting here
High-waisted
cropped jeans. Velvet
turtle neck. Hair in a top
knot.
Feeling scrunched, bunched
around my neck
and shoulders.
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Design History Beyond the Canon is a result of an institute held in July 2015 at Drexel University where a group of scholars and designers from the United States came together to discuss the topic Teaching the History of Modern Design: The Canon and Beyond. The institute created a container for several conversations: the methods of design history; the boundaries around art, design, and craft; and the integration of scholarship that challenges the canonical approach into the teaching of design history. In creating this collection of essays, the writers aspire to continue these conversations.
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