User:Adamjiwa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Design studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose Design Studies because the artifact relates the first area of communications that I started receiving job training to complete, classifieds layout and real estate ad design. The reason this article matters is because of the influence that visual design has in the world. Something that I noticed while reading the article was that it begins the history of Design Studies in the 1960's. Thus, the article is more about 20th century Design Studies.

Evaluate the article
The lead of the article seems broad and lacks septicity. The timeline of the article does not follow a chronological order and seems to go in different paths to make the article flow from topics. The section of about characteristics and scope discusses how design practices directly affect the visual culture of society. The section also has a philosophy tone in that the author discusses how examining design studies can lead to an audience understanding the rhetoric aspect of design on people.

In the History section, the authors discuss the origins and early development of the research and history of 1960's design. The section also discuses foundational figures ranging from 1922 to 2019. Within the article, there is further explanation that design studies allow future researchers to insight on cultural studies about ethnic studies and gender can also play a role in the understanding of the topic. A distraction of the article includes inconsistent born and death dates of featured foundational figures. Those years can be added to article as they are missing.

The study of design is not limited to strict visual design concepts, but also anything that can be created by creature of understanding the concept. This rhetorical criticism of the subject becomes more apparent in the article as the Agency point of Kenneth Burke's pentad is discussed. As the article continues, readers can understand that this particular side about design studies has some structures based on rhetorical theories of design.

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