TAG: criticism
"What these experiments neatly demonstrate is that the taste of a wine, like the taste of everything, is not merely the sum of our inputs, and cannot be solved in a bottom-up fashion."
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"If a critic can get people to realize that the everyday architectural world of garages and malls and bad haunted house novels is worthy of architectural analysis . . . then maybe the trade journals can get some of their subscribers back."
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Notes on "Sweet Child O' Mine," as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor.
"Hi Axl, Just got your manuscript and demo for the song "Sweet Child O' (sic) Mine." I think we need to talk."
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"Author and design critic Rick Poynor takes a hard look at his own profession and finds that, despite living in an age when everyone's a critic, real criticism is almost impossible to find."
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37signals: Part 3 and my coffin is being prepared
Whitespace: "Many of us have gotten to the point of where we either give a website a 10 or a 0. Why can't we see what's good and not so good (see that sounds much better than "bad") about websites/apps?"
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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