Online Critiques and Outsourcing the Design Process

A clarification to begin. A professional design critiques’ primary focus is to improve the work, an educational critique is to improve the designer. My interest here are students and thus improving the designer. Full disclosure, I am an advocate for and active participant in online critiques. “My teacher says this …

Collaborative Practice Crit

Activities that are deeply collaborative can be challenging to execute in educational settings where students are evaluated individually both in out of the classroom. In a design firm or studio setting a designer seldom works a job from inception to completion independently. You may be generating ideas and sketches and …