As someone who teaches a variety of academic, technical, and multimodal writing classes, I have drawn influence from a number of design studies sources. Texts such as Ellen Lupton’s Design is Storytelling, Carl DiSalvo’s Adversarial Design, Sasha Costanza-Chock’s “Design Justice,” and Mario Gooden’s Dark Space have had profound impacts on how I view design as an important part of rhetorical composing. However, I don’t know if I have found a line in any of these texts that has lingered with me more than when, in his handmade zine, Garnett Hertz claims, “Design can be how to punch Nazis in the…
Recent Posts
- Jack Labriola: From Academic Roots to User Experience Research Excellence
- Call for Syllabi: Writing with Data
- A Postphenomenological Turn in Rhetorical Studies
- 2025-26 DRC Graduate Fellowship Application
- Attending Computers and Writing 2025? Be a Session Reviewer!
- Charisse Iglesias: Community Engagement Beyond Academia
- Addison Kliewer – Bridging Academia and Industry with Technical Writing Mastery
- Philosophy of Technology in Rhetoric and Writing Studies